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Cost of Diabetes Trickles Down to Reduced Local Spending

Posted: Friday, December 02, 2005

Diabetes, long known to be a costly disease because of high medical expenses and lost wages, can also take a big bite out of the local economy.

The study found that, for every $1 of lost income due to diabetes, another 36 cents is lost in reduced local spending.

Daily Weighing Helps People Lose Weight, Prevents Gain

Posted: Friday, December 02, 2005

The research team evaluated self-weighing practices of more than 3,000 people participating in either a weight-loss or a weight-gain prevention program. The study's key finding: “Higher weighing frequency was associated with greater 24-month weight loss or less weight gain.”

Exercise Test Predicts Death in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease

Posted: Friday, December 02, 2005

VO2max is the maximum amount of oxygen a person can take in during exercise. Exercise capacity, as measured in terms of VO2max, is a powerful predictor of death in patients with coronary artery disease, not just patients with heart failure

How Hypertension Can Lead To Kidney Failure

Posted: Friday, December 02, 2005

High blood pressure means that the force of blood

against the walls of your blood vessels is too high.
High blood pressure can injure the blood vessels in

your kidneys so that they aren’t able to properly filter

your blood and remove waste and extra fluids from your body

Intervention Directed at Primary Care Providers Improves Outcomes

Posted: Friday, December 02, 2005

Interventions directed at primary care providers and supported by endocrinologists improved the management of diabetes among primary care physicians and lowered HbA1c, blood pressure and LDL cholesterol levels among diabetic patients. The interventions were aimed at fighting a problem known as ‘clinical inertia.’

Longer Duration of Breastfeeding Lowers Risk for Developing Diabetes

Posted: Friday, December 02, 2005

New studies shows a 15% reduction for the risk of diabetes for every year of lactation.

NAVIGATOR Screening Turns up 9,000 People with Undiagnosed Diabetes

Posted: Friday, December 02, 2005

In her oral presentation, Dr. Bethel said that while conducting the oral glucose tolerance tests that were part of the screening, the researchers found that 9,092 individuals (20.9%) were already diabetic, but were unaware of their status. Another 11,853 individuals (27.2%) screened were found to have impaired glucose tolerance, a major step on the road to diabetes

New Test to Fend Off Type 1 Diabetes

Posted: Friday, December 02, 2005

Scientists at the Pacific Northwest Research Institute (PNRI) will be part of a national effort to see if they can stop type 1 diabetes — or at least delay its progression — by derailing the immune cells that attack the body's insulin producers.

One in Five Americans Are At Serious Risk for Diabetes

Posted: Friday, December 02, 2005

Key health organizations are warning that at least one in five Americans has or is at serious risk for developing diabetes, meaning millions are at an increased risk for cardiovascular disease. It’s back to the ABC’s of diabetes

Risk of Urinary Incontinence Higher in Diabetics

Posted: Friday, December 02, 2005

Women with type 2 diabetes face an increased risk of urinary urge incontinence, but 17 percent of incontinence of any quantity and nearly 15 percent of severe incontinence can be avoided with the prevention of diabetes.