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Effectiveness of Pharmacist-Administered Diabetes Education and Management Services

Posted: Monday, January 23, 2006

Diabetes management services from clinical pharmacists achieved significant improvements in A1C values and reduced costs of $59,040.

Two "Diabetes Genes" Predict the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes

Posted: Friday, November 11, 2005

Scandinavian researchers have confirmed that at least two "diabetes genes" predict the risk of Type 2 diabetes (T2D) when combined with lifestyle factors, in the largest study of its kind to date.

Women Who Live Alone Face Higher Diabetes Risk

Posted: Monday, October 31, 2005

researchers found that those who lived alone were roughly three times more likely than women who lived with family to develop type 2 diabetes.
The reasons, the study authors found, seemed largely lifestyle-related.

Lifestyle Biggest Risk Factor for Diabetes

Posted: Friday, July 22, 2005

Adult lifestyle has more influence on your chances of developing diabetes than childhood experience, according to new research whose findings contradict previously-held beliefs

Step Counting Increases Exercise More Than Timed Walking

Posted: Thursday, April 21, 2005

Instructing sedentary women to walk 10,000 steps per day is more effective at increasing exercise per day than is asking them to walk 30 minutes on most days of the week.

Battle of the Bulge: Dietary Challenges after Obesity Surgery

Posted: Wednesday, April 20, 2005

If you're morbidly obese and you've made the decision to have obesity surgery, your journey is far from over. While this may be a step towards a much healthier life, the lifestyle changes that you will have to make after surgery must be considered or you'll be in even worse shape than when you began

Atherosclerosis Present in Most All Young Adults With Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome

Posted: Tuesday, November 30, 2004

88% of young adults with diabetes mellitus and metabolic syndrome have signs of carotid atherosclerosis. Initial treatment in this younger age group is very simple, with adoption of a healthy lifestyle

Lifestyle Intervention Reduces Risk of Type 2 Diabetes by 58%

Posted: Monday, November 08, 2004

Why are we looking for the cure for Type 2 diabetes when we already have it?
The Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) showed that intensive lifestyle intervention reduced the risk of diabetes by 58%.

Nearly 60% of American Adults Have Elevated Blood Pressure

Posted: Monday, November 08, 2004

One-third are not aware of their condition, and among those who were aware, only 31 percent had their blood pressure controlled at target levels.

Mediterranean Diet Improves Survival in Elderly

Posted: Thursday, September 30, 2004

Among 70- to 90-year-olds, adherence to a Mediterranean diet and healthful lifestyle is associated with a more than 50% lower rate of all-cause and cause-specific mortality.