Diastolic blood pressure less than 70 mm Hg in patients with Type 2 diabetes is linked to increased CV risk, even when systolic BP is in target ranges….
Read More »Bariatric Surgery Can Mask Diabetes
Bariatric surgery may appear to cure diabetes based on measurements such as fasting plasma glucose and A1c but postprandial glucose may tell a different story….
Read More »Cinnamon for Diabetes: It Helps … a Little
There may be no harm in adding cinnamon to your diabetes regimen, but does it really help?
Read More »Prevalence of Psychiatric Disorders in Children with Type 2 Diabetes
Psychiatric disorders, particularly depression, have been previously correlated with diabetes….
Read More »Exercise and Type 2 Diabetes
The American College of Sports Medicine and the American Diabetes Association: joint position statement By Sheri Colberg, Ph.D., FACSM, Committee Chairperson In the midst of the latest gloomy projections on the rapidly expanding worldwide rates of diabetes mellitus, the latest research on physical activity — reported in a …
Read More »Are Exercise-Induced Low Blood Sugars Making You Fat?
By Sheri Colberg, Ph.D., FACSM Over the years, I have had many exercisers with diabetes ask me why they’re gaining weight instead of losing it. There are two possible answers to that question.
Read More »Half of U.S. Could Have Diabetes or Prediabetes within Ten Years
More than half of Americans will have diabetes or be prediabetic by 2020 at a cost to the U.S. health care system of $3.35 trillion if current trends go on unabated, according to analysis of a new report released last week by health insurer UnitedHealth Group Inc….
Read More »Curbing the Diabetes and Prediabetes Epidemic
By the year 2020, 52% of adults in the U.S. could be prediabetic or diabetic, up from about 40% today according to a new report….
Read More »Improving Limb Salvage Rate with Multiple Vessel Recanalization
New endovascular techniques and devices are enabling the salvage of limbs and the restoration of ambulation in diabetic patients with critical limb ischemia who previously would have required amputation. The approach involves arterial and venous recanalization prior to addressing diabetic ulcers….
Read More »Have Patients Urinate for Their Hearts’ Sake
A new multi-marker approach for the prediction of heart failure incidence….
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