Defeat Diabetes: December 2002 Articles
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Diabetes Activist Strolls In County
(12/27/02) For Andy Mandell, there was no
turkey on Christmas Day. Mr. Mandell, 57, is walking
around -- not across -- the country in an effort to increase awareness about
diabetes, which he calls a "nasty" disease that has reached "epidemic
proportions."
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Type 2 Diabetes - Whole Grains Reduce Long-Term Risk In
Men
(12/24/02)
Daily consumption of whole grains has
been associated in a number of studies with reductions in risk for ischemic
stroke, coronary artery disease, and type 2 diabetes.
In a long-term study of male health professionals found that men who
ate several servings of whole grains per day over a period of years had a
substantially reduced risk of developing type 2 diabetes, and that some risk
reduction occurred even in men who were obese.
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Sugar Can Improve
Weight Control, Another Study
(12/18/02)
Replacing dietary fat with a
higher intake of carbohydrates, including sugar,
can have a positive effect on weight control in overweight individuals.
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A Healthy Glass of
White Wine Made for People with Type 1 Diabetes
(12/18/02)
They developed a white
wine specifically for people with juvenile or type I
diabetes, as their bodies are less effective at mopping up free radicals than
normal.
White wine can be just as
healthy as red.
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Safety and Efficacy of Metformin for PCOS (Polycystic
Ovary Syndrome) is Still in Question
(12/18/02)
PCOS prevalence is increasing in the Western world,
partly in tandem with increasing BMI and rates of insulin resistance.
Metformin, which inhibits the production of hepatic glucose and increases the
sensitivity of peripheral tissue to insulin, has garnered a lot of publicity
as a treatment, but scientifically sound data is inadequate.
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Lidocaine Patch Provides Effective Analgesia for Painful
Diabetic Neuropathy
(12/18/02)
A transdermal
patch, Lidoderm (lidocaine 5 percent) appears to
provide significant improvement in both pain intensity and pain relief for
patients with painful diabetic neuropathy.
The results
are important, researchers said, because the condition affects more than 50
percent of elderly patients with diabetes and is notoriously difficult to
treat effectively.
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Women with Gestational Diabetes are Not Informed About
Future Risk
(12/18/02)
54% of
women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM)
report never having been told they were at increased risk for developing type
2 diabetes in later life.
That, according to analysis of data from the Stockholm Pregnancy and Women's
Nutrition (SPAWN) study.
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Cloning To Make
Stem Cells Could Be Boon To Medical Research
(12/16/02)
Scientists at Stanford University announced last week that they would begin
trying to clone human cells. Their goal, they say, is not
to make copies of human beings but to make so-called stem cells, which have
shown promise for research into Parkinson's Disease, diabetes, paralysis and
scores of other ailments.
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A Cup Of Tea Is Good News For Diabetic Tea Fanatics
(12/16/02)
Tea could
turn out to be the diabetic's best friend, according to US Department of
Agriculture scientists. They have found that green, black, and oolong
teas can boost the activity of insulin, the hormone that
controls blood sugar levels.
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Holiday Season
Especially Risky For Diabetics
(12/16/02)
With the abundance of food during the
holiday season and diabetes rising at alarming rates,
medical authorities are reminding the public that they can help prevent many
cases of diabetes by watching what they eat and exercising.
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Visiting
Ethiopian Jews Learn To Deal With Diabetes Patients
(12/16/02)
For
Ethiopian Jews who immigrated to Israel over the past 20 years, it is
their ancestral spiritual home. Life in Israel, though, is much different than
it is in Africa. Since moving to the country, many Ethiopians have developed
diabetes, a disease unheard of in the Third World.
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The First Children with Type 2 Diabetes Have
Grown UP!
(12/11/02)
Alarming results for the
first group of children diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
In
this group of people, who are now aged between 18 and 33 years, a high rate of
deaths (9%), dialysis (6%), and miscarriage (38%), one toe amputation and one
case of blindness have been reported. This high level of diabetes-related
mortality and morbidity in the young points to a very bleak future for the
increasing number of children now developing Type 2 diabetes.
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Diabetics With Prior Foot Ulcer Prone to Falls
(12/11/02)
Falls are common among diabetic
patients with prior foot ulcers. Researchers suggest that
clinicians discuss the risk of falls with diabetic patients and advise on
strategies to prevent fall-related injuries.
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Carbohydrates - A 'Simple' or 'Complex' Problem
(12/11/02)
Eating a diet with less fat and more
carbohydrates could lead to a modest but significant reduction in body weight.
According to an EU
funded study, the
group on a simple carbohydrate diet lost 0.9 kg, while those on a complex
carbohydrate diet lost 1.8kg, revealing a relatively small difference between
the two. However, in a sub-study with distinctly obese
adults, the weight loss was greater.
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Heart Association Recommends Fish Oil
(12/11/02)
All
omega-3 fatty acids offer protective benefits to the
heart.
It will also make the blood less
likely to clot and cause a heart attack, protecting against irregular
heartbeats that cause sudden cardiac death, and decreasing risk of
cardiovascular disease (CVD).
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Is Vigorous Exercise Better Than Walking?
(12/11/02)
The
CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) recommends
moderate-intensity physical activity of at least 30 minutes on most,
preferably all, days of the week. Walking and vigorous exercise yielded
similar benefits.
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Usefulness of Home Blood Pressure Measurement in Type 2
Diabetic Patients
(12/11/02)
Recently,
repeated home blood pressure (HBP)
measurements in the morning for a long period have been shown to
have a stronger predictive power for mortality in patients with
hypertension than occasional casual/clinic blood pressure (CBP)
measurements.
Elevations of HBP in the morning in diabetic patients are strongly
related to microvascular and macrovascular complications.
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Employees Who Control Their Blood Glucose Are More
Productive
(12/11/02)
Studies show
that those who control their BG earn $1700 more. Any
improvement in glycemic control has been shown to reduce the risk for
diabetes-related complications. Researchers found that those with higher
hemoglobin A1c values had higher medical costs over a 3-year period.
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Wave Goodbye to Finger Sticks?
(12/11/02) Instead of dreaded, painful finger sticks
done several times a day, people with diabetes may someday be able to
accurately monitor their blood sugar levels as easily as
taking their temperature.
They may employ infrared light waves and computers instead of needles and
blood glucose meters by means of cutting-edge technology that uses the same
principals of ultrasound but with better resolution.
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Dietary Advice Takes On Mediterranean Flavor
(12/09/02) For several decades, experts on heart
disease have promoted a low-fat, low-cholesterol diet as most effective in
warding off the leading killer of Americans. It is not
total fat but rather the kinds of fats consumed that have the main influence
on coronary risk.
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Metabolic Syndrome and
Heart Disease
(12/06/02)
A new study finds
middle-aged men with the metabolic syndrome are at an increased risk for
cardiovascular disease and death. Metabolic syndrome
is characterized as having high blood pressure, blood lipid abnormalities,
obesity, increased abdominal fat, high blood sugar levels, and insulin
resistance.
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Diabetes Control
Important for Expecting Mothers
(12/06/02)
A new study shows women
with poorly controlled diabetes during early pregnancy have an increased risk
of complications. They defined an adverse pregnancy
outcome as spontaneous abortion, major congenital malformation, stillbirth, or
infant death.
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Anti-Coagulation Drugs Found to Have Different Effects
in Diabetics After Heart Attack
(12/06/02)
Researchers have found that drugs used to prevent blood coagulation appear to
have different effects in heart patients with diabetes. These findings,
coupled with an assessment of ease of administration and cost compared to
other drugs, leads researchers from Duke University Medical Center to
recommend the drug enoxaparin, which is a
low-molecular weight heparin, for acute heart attack patients with diabetes.
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Protein In Eye May Help Fight Autoimmune Diseases in
Other Parts of Body
(12/06/02)
A factor (protein) in the eye
involved in the eye's "immune privilege" has prevented and halted
autoimmune eye disease in animal models and promises
to aid in preventing and treating other autoimmune diseases, including
multiple sclerosis and diabetes.
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Combining Key Ingredients of Vegetarian Diet Cuts
Cholesterol Significantly, Says Study
(12/06/02) A
diet combining a handful of known cholesterol-lowering plant components cut
bad cholesterol by close to 30-percent. The
reduction is similar to that achieved by some drug treatments for high
cholesterol, suggesting a possible drug-free alternative for combating the
condition.
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Portion Size Matters: Given Too Much, We Eat It
(12/06/02)
Almost nobody can stop eating at just one normal serving if there's extra food
on their plate, Penn State researchers have shown, and this tendency coupled
with the spread of megaportions may be contributing
to the American obesity epidemic.
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The evidence is
overwhelming that inflammation is a central factor in cardiovascular disease,
by far the world's biggest killer.
Despite healthy cholesterol levels, new research shows
many people are at high risk of heart attacks because of painless inflammation
in the bloodstream. The inflammation comes from
many sources and triggers heart attacks by weakening the walls of blood
vessels, making fatty buildups burst. A large study published Thursday
concludes it is twice as likely as high cholesterol to trigger heart attacks.
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CoQ10 Therapy Can Improve Glucose and Blood Pressure
Control in Type 2 Diabetics
(12/06/02)
New study findings indicate that treatment with coenzyme
Q10 (CoQ) may help adults with type 2 diabetes to stabilize
blood glucose levels and lower their blood pressure.
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Glycemia Control Vital In Pre and Early Pregnancy Among
Type 1 Diabetics
(12/06/02)
A significant
relation between adverse outcome of pregnancy and poor
glycemia control in early pregnancy in type 1 diabetics is shown in an
investigation by British clinicians. They found that there was four-fold
increase in adverse outcome, a four-fold increase in spontaneous abortion, and
a nine-fold increase in major congenital malformation.
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Beer Has Heart Health
Properties Too
(12/06/02)
Drinking an occasional beer with dinner may help
reduce the risk of heart disease, according to a small study by Dutch
researchers. An
anti-inflammatory action of alcohol may help
explain the link between moderate alcohol consumption and lower cardiovascular
disease risk.
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Vitamin E Unlikely to Reduce Microvascular Complications
in Diabetics
(12/06/02)
Vitamin
E supplementation has no demonstrable effect on major
cardiovascular outcomes, microvascular complications or glycemic control in
diabetics at high risk for cardiac events.
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Keryx®_Brings Hope to
People with Diabetics with Kidney Failure
(12/06/02)
Israel's Keryx Biopharmaceuticals is shepherding a drug through the final
stages of U.S. clinical trials that can reduce albumin levels and gives hope
to the three to four million U.S. diabetes sufferers who experience
kidney failure along with their diabetes. The prognosis
for patients suffering from what's known as end-stage kidney disease is grim
at present and their only hope for survival is through a continuous regimen of
kidney dialysis or from a kidney transplant.
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Researchers Shed Light on Genetic Defects That Cause
Diabetes
(12/06/02)
Researchers visualize the
protein that is mutated in most individuals having a form of diabetes called
Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young (MODY). For years
scientists have sought to identify the genetic basis for 'typical' type 2
diabetes, but this has proven to be incredibly difficult. Along the way,
however, scientists have discovered pieces of the puzzle -- the genes that are
mutated in more specialized forms of diabetes.
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Iron Overdose May Increase Heart Disease Risk
(12/06/02) Iron overload has been implicated as a
possible source of increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. An increasing
number of people in modern industrialized societies are iron
replete, rather than iron deficient.
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Care for US Patients with Diabetics Varies Among States
(12/06/02)
The level of care that diabetes patients
receive in the United States varies widely from state to state, often falling
far below current national recommendations.
The new findings are based on a national survey including
nearly 2 million Medicare patients between the ages of 18 and 75 who were
diagnosed with diabetes.
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HRT and Women with
Diabetes
(12/03/02)
Women with diabetes who
are taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may have an advantage when it
comes to heart attacks. According to new research, HRT was
linked to reducing the risk of heart attack in diabetic women who had not
suffered a recent heart attack.
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Air Travel Information For Diabetics
(12/03/02)
Because of concerns over
forgeries, prescriptions and doctors’ letters are not sufficient to allow
people with diabetes to carry syringes and other equipment on board...
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New Safety
Precautions From Committee on Safety of Medicines
(12/03/02)
Zyban is a drug
licensed to help people to stop smoking. The Committee on Safety of Medicines
[CSM] have received over 5,000 Yellow card reports of adverse reactions. they
have stated that there are certain conditions where Zyban
must NOT be prescribed and these include people treated with oral
hypoglycaemic and those treated with insulin. Clearly this means that people
with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes should NOT be prescribed Zyban.
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Routine Urine Tests Not Advised For Diabetic Women
(12/02/02)
Women with diabetes do not need routine screenings to check for bacteria in
their urine, as some doctors recommend, according to a new report. Such
screenings currently are followed by antibiotic treatment if bacteria are
present--even if the patient is not experiencing any
symptoms of a urinary tract infection. But the new results, published in
the November 14th issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, show that
antibiotic treatment did not help prevent symptomatic infections or
complications from them.
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Niacin Safe for Treating Patients Who Have Diabetes and
High Cholesterol
(12/02/02)
Treating
diabetic patients with the cholesterol-lowering drug niacin does not result in
increased heart attacks or mortality, despite historical evidence that niacin
raises blood sugars.
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After years of dismissing the Atkins
diet, the medical establishment is at last putting it to a careful test and
finding it might not be the nutritional foolishness they long assumed.
A small study released Monday found that contrary to
expectations, dieters' cholesterol levels do not shoot through the roof, and
they take off more weight — at least in the short term — than do people on a
standard low-fat regimen.
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Retinopathy in Type 2 Diabetes May Have Genetic Basis
(12/02/02)
Researchers describe a "familial clustering" in
retinopathy secondary to type 2 diabetes mellitus. They observed a more than
three-fold higher prevalence of retinopathy among siblings of patients with
diabetic retinopathy.
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Women With Diabetes Have Special Needs Which Need to
Be Addressed
(12/02/02)
The medical
and psychological needs of women with diabetes
should be examined in greater depth, as they experience the disease
differently from men. New findings from a series of one-on-one interviews
with women with diabetes from around the globe show that the role of the
woman as family carer is negatively affected if they have diabetes or look
after someone with the condition.
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Diabetes Treatment Approved
(12/02/02)
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a
drug for type 2 diabetes, a disease that affects some 15 million Americans.
In clinical trials, Metaglip was shown to be more effective in controlling
the blood sugar of type 2 diabetics than either metformin or glipizide used
alone.
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Say "Nuts" to
Diabetes
(12/02/02)
Just say "nuts" to
diabetes, advises a new study by
Harvard researchers. The study showed women who consume peanut butter or
other forms of nuts five or more times a week have a 27-percent lower risk
of getting the disease.
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'Super-Sized'
Teenagers Sue McDonald's
(12/02/02)
McDonald's Makes Kids Fat, Lawyers Say.
Lawyers have filed a class-action
lawsuit against McDonald's on behalf of New York children who have suffered
health problems, including diabetes, high blood pressure, and obesity.
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