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Impaired Fasting Glucose Screening Could Prevent Cardiovascular Disease

Posted: Friday, July 14, 2006

Finding people with impaired fasting glucose -- a prediabetic stage -- could also help identify those with risk factors that can be modified to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.

Kidney Stone Therapy Increases Risk for Hypertension and Diabetes

Posted: Friday, July 14, 2006

Beware! Shock wave lithotripsy (SWL) for renal calculi patients may increase the risk of hypertension and diabetes in long-term follow-up.

Diabetes Is The Clinical Equivalant of Aging 15 Years

Posted: Friday, July 07, 2006

Having diabetes can take away 15 years of a persons life. Diabetes is the clinical equivalent of aging 15 years, thrusting men and women with the disease into a high-risk category for cardiovascular disease while still in middle-age.

New Guidelines Target Diabetic Kidney Disease: Screen at Diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes

Posted: Friday, July 07, 2006

New guidelines developed for the first time by the Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative provide detailed information on how to improve clinical outcomes in patients who have both diabetes and chronic kidney disease.

Preop Glycemic Control Decreases Infection Risk

Posted: Friday, July 07, 2006

Tight control of glucose in the postoperative period results in fewer complications, including infections, and decreased mortality in both diabetic and nondiabetic patients.

Children of Diabetics Have Early Artery Disease

Posted: Friday, July 07, 2006

Adult children who have two parents with type 2 diabetes, but who are free from the disease themselves, have early signs of atherosclerosis, the results of a study shows.

Metformin Induces Long-Term Weight Loss in Teens

Posted: Friday, July 07, 2006

Metformin can induce long-term weight loss in obese, non-diabetic adolescents, and could possibly be useful in a regimen to help achieve weight loss in adolescents, who may have developed type 2 diabetes type due to overweight.

Report: Gardenia Fruit Compound Starting Point For Diabetes Therapy

Posted: Friday, June 30, 2006

A Gardenia fruit extract traditionally used in Chinese medicine to treat the symptoms of type 2 diabetes does indeed contain a chemical that reverses some of the pancreatic dysfunctions that underlie the disease, researchers report in the June 7, 2006, Cell Metabolism. The chemical therefore represents a useful starting point for new diabetes therapies, they said.

LDL Cholesterol Below Recommended Levels Is Better

Posted: Friday, June 30, 2006

Lowering LDL ("bad") cholesterol levels substantially below currently recommended levels significantly reduces the chances that people with diabetes and heart disease will suffer a stroke or heart attack, researchers report.

AHA Dietary and Lifestyle Recommendations Revised June, 2006

Posted: Friday, June 30, 2006

The 2006 AHA diet and lifestyle recommendations include guidelines for a healthy diet; healthy weight; cholesterol, BP, and fasting blood sugar control; use of supplements; physical activity; and avoidance of tobacco.