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How To Impact Your Patients Lifestyles in 20 Minutes!

Posted: Friday, May 14, 2004

During the 20 minutes we were able to talk briefly about food labels and counting carbohydrates.

Next we ask, from what you learned, what is the most important item on the food label? They replied, of course, carbohydrates! I then explain the most important part of the food label is PORTION SIZE. I then go on to explain that there are other things that should also be aware of on the label Calories, Fats, and Salt

New Onset Diabetes Increases Risk For Heart Attack 3 Fold

Posted: Friday, May 14, 2004

Compared with patients without diabetes, those with new diabetes were 2.9-times more likely to experience a heart attack or related event -- an elevated risk similar to the 3.6-fold risk seen in patients with long-standing diabetes.

New Onset Diabetes Increases Risk For Heart Attack 3 Fold

Posted: Friday, May 14, 2004

Compared with patients without diabetes, those with new diabetes were 2.9-times more likely to experience a heart attack or related event -- an elevated risk similar to the 3.6-fold risk seen in patients with long-standing diabetes.

Recent Findings Show How Obesity Kills

Posted: Friday, May 14, 2004

Research into the biology of fat is turning up some surprising new insights about how obesity kills. The weight of the evidence: It's the toxic mischief of the flesh itself. A series of recent discoveries suggests that all fat-storage cells churn out a stew of hormones and other chemical messengers that fine-tune the body's energy balance. But when spewed in vast amounts by cells swollen to capacity with fat, they assault many organs in ways that are bad for health.

Save Your Sight: Preventing Vision Loss from Diabetes

Posted: Friday, May 14, 2004

A study published in the April issue of the Archives of Ophthalmology found that more than 4 million US adults aged 40 or older have diabetic retinopathy, a leading cause of blindness. Retinopathy occurs when high blood sugar levels damage blood vessels in the retina, which is the tissue at the back of the eye.

The results of our study are important for public policy because they demonstrate that there's a large need for management and detection of eye disease in people with diabetes.

Telecare Improves Glycemic Control

Posted: Friday, May 14, 2004

Telecare was associated with improving glycemic control in patients with type 1 diabetes that was inadequately controlled with intensive insulin treatment.

Telecare Improves Glycemic Control

Posted: Friday, May 14, 2004

Telecare was associated with improving glycemic control in patients with type 1 diabetes that was inadequately controlled with intensive insulin treatment

"Living Bandages" Heal Burns with Patients' Cells

Posted: Wednesday, May 05, 2004

British scientists have developed "living bandages," made from a patient's own cells, which speed healing of burns and for patients with diabetes.

Companies Rush to Sell Low-Carb Products

Posted: Wednesday, May 05, 2004

Take a piece of pita bread, a little tuna, some olives and capers and — presto — it's a low-carb "sort of Mediterranean" pizza. The impact of the Atkins diet, the South Beach diet and other low-carbohydrate eating plans is everywhere at this year's food industry show of new products.

Diabetes Breakthrough For Reversing Type 1 Diabetes

Posted: Wednesday, May 05, 2004

Children who are dependent on insulin injections could now be treated with tablets after researchers at Plymouth's Peninsula Medical School discovered a new, genetic cause of diabetes.