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Georgia to Pay Diabetes Doctors for Performance

Posted: Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Georgia will provide bonuses to doctors who care for state employees with diabetes, and improve their outcomes.

Lifestyle Changes Regenerate Nerve Fibers in Prediabetics

Posted: Monday, April 24, 2006

In patients with diabetes, nerve fiber damage that causes diabetic neuropathy is irreversible.
Researchers have found that with weight loss and exercise in patients with impaired glucose tolerance neuropathy -- so-called prediabetes -- the affected nerve fibers can be reinervated, causing a reduction in the patients' pain

Intensive Therapy Relieves Diabetes Neuropathy

Posted: Friday, February 24, 2006

Patients who received intensive therapy were 64 percent less likely to have symptoms and signs, respectively, of neuropathy

Height A Factor For Amputation Among Patients With Diabetes

Posted: Thursday, February 16, 2006

In the whole study population, every 10-cm increase in height was associated with a 16% increase in risk of amputation. In the subgroup of patients for whom data on fasting plasma glucose levels and dyslipidemia were available, the risk of amputation was even greater (79% relative increase in risk of amputation.) This finding was independent of other factors such as the adequacy of diabetes control.

Vibrating Insoles Improve Balance in Patients With Stroke and Neuropathy

Posted: Thursday, February 16, 2006

For the elderly, falling is the leading cause of death due to injury. Now, a biomedical engineer is studying how vibrations can help seniors keep their balance

Restless Legs Syndrome Common in Diabetics

Posted: Monday, November 21, 2005

Restless legs syndrome can be a major cause of sleep disruption in this population"An association between RLS and peripheral neuropathy was confirmed by logistic regression analysis

Tingling Could be Early Sign of Diabetes

Posted: Thursday, October 13, 2005

"The findings of this study suggest that patients with newly diagnosed neuropathy should be screened for diabetes, and in addition, the study emphasizes the importance of early glucose control to prevent diabetic neuropathy

Nerve Changes from Diabetes Begin Earlier Than Previously Known

Posted: Friday, October 07, 2005

Malfunctioning Bone Marrow Cells Cause Neuropathy in People with Diabetes

Posted: Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Bone marrow cells that produced insulin adversely affected nerve cells or neurons.The finding not only provides a basis for understanding the dangerous nerve condition in diabetics, but could eventually lead to a treatment for this problem,

Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease in Diabetics, an under Diagnosed Complication

Posted: Monday, June 20, 2005

Heartburn is noted in 42% of patients with neuropathy versus 24% patients without neuropathy