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In this week’s Homerun Slides, Dr. Stanley Schwartz talks about the Annual Cycle of Metabolism that has helped keep humans alive for tens of thousands of year but is now working to our disadvantage instead resulting in Modern Insulin Resistant Man…. To download these slides in PowerPoint (.ppt) format, use this link: Diabetes …

Use over 10-year period also leads to cardiac events in type 2 patients using metformin monotherapy… Cardiovascular disease is a common comorbid complication in type 2 diabetes patients. 50-80% of type 2 diabetes patient deaths are a result of a cardiovascular disease. Sulfonylureas are one of the most widely prescribed …

Girls whose mothers were also overweight or obese had an even higher risk…. Researchers conducted a study to see if there was an association between hyperglycemia in utero, gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), and childhood obesity. This research included 421 girls and their mothers in the Kaiser Permanente system in Northern …

In this week’s Homerun Slides, Dr. Stanley Schwartz talks about the Natural History of Type 2 Diabetes and the possibilities for altering the usual development of the disease. He also discusses different strategies for different types of insulin resistance and the implications of this for therapy…. To download these slides in PowerPoint …

Lab models that develop diabetes and cancer and that lacked Sirtuin 3 also developed pulmonary hypertension… A University of Alberta team has discovered a protein that is important in the development of pulmonary hypertension which is caused by the narrowing of the blood vessels in the lungs due to excessive …

Deferoxamine delivered through the skin has the potential to prevent amputations… Stanford University School of Medicine researchers presented results at the American College of Surgeons Annual Clinical Congress showing they have developed a drug delivered via a skin patch that can heal wounds and prevent those wounds from reoccurring. Geoffrey …

Manuka honey is produced in New Zealand by bees that pollinate the native manuka bush.

In this week’s Homerun Slides, Dr. Stanley Schwartz tackles the topic of the best blood glucose levels for a hospital setting. He presents data from several different studies including First DIGAMI and the Portland Diabetic Project, as well as several others in his discussion of this important subject… To download …

Rudy Bilous, MD, FRCP Richard Donnelly, MD, PHD, FRCP, FRACP Symptoms, signs and classification Diabetes is one of the most common causes of peripheral neuropathy, a term that encompasses a heterogeneous group of disorders (Figure 17.1). In population-based surveys, up to one-third of patients with diabetes have evidence of peripheral neuropathy but …

In this week’s Homerun Slides, courtesy Dr. Stanley Schwartz, we delve deeper into the possible explanations for the increase in mortality with tight glycemic control in the ACCORD trial as well as the effects of hypoglycemia on the cardiovascular system…. To download the complete set of these slides in PowerPoint (.ppt) …