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Diabetes Increases Incontinence for Older Women

Posted: Friday, July 22, 2005

More than half of postmenopausal women have had a recent episode of urinary incontinence, according to new research, and the severity of symptoms increases with a history of diabetes.

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

Patients on Antipsychotics Need Screening for Diabetes

Posted: Friday, July 22, 2005

Testing fasting blood glucose and measuring abdominal obesity is a cost-effective approach to identifying patients taking second-generation antipsychotics with metabolic syndrome.

Psychotherapy Helps Teens With Poorly Controlled Diabetes

Posted: Friday, July 22, 2005

Adolescents with type 1 diabetes in chronically poor metabolic control improve with multisystemic therapy, an intensive, home-based, family-centered psychotherapy

Aggressive Diabetes Education Program Makes Positive Impact

Posted: Tuesday, June 28, 2005

On Health of Medicaid Patients. The program is projected to reduce diabetes-related mortality by 9 percent and microvascular disease events by 15 percent among those who completed the program

Beta-Cells Regenerate Even In Type 1 Diabetes

Posted: Tuesday, June 28, 2005

A new study provides evidence that the pancreas continues to form beta cells even in the setting of long-standing type 1 diabetes

Cardiovascular Disease Already a Factor for Teens With Type 1 Diabetes

Posted: Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Artery walls begin thickening as early as the midteen years in young people with type 1 diabetes. Early atherosclerosis is more pronounced in teen boys than in girls and also in teens who smoke or have relatively high total cholesterol and apolipoprotein B levels.

Exenatide Delivers Weight-Reduction Benefit in Type 2 Diabetes

Posted: Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Patients with type 2 diabetes who take the new incretin mimetic drug exenatide (Byetta) appear to achieve sustained glucose control

Metaglidasen Controls Diabetes and Lipids Without Side Effects

Posted: Tuesday, June 28, 2005

The diabetes drug metaglidasen was shown to control blood glucose levels without causing weight gain or edema, according to a mid-stage clinical trial.

Asian Americans Face Higher Diabetes Risk and Not Being Screened

Posted: Monday, June 13, 2005

Asian Americans are twice as likely as whites to develop diabetes, studies show. Yet doctors may not screen Asian Americans often enough because doctors don't know enough about the aspects of diabetes special to this group.