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EASD: IDF Recommends Tighter Control of Post-Meal Blood Glucose Levels

Posted: Thursday, October 04, 2007

IDF issued the new global guideline for diabetes care which includes the management of postmeal glucose. The guideline emphasizes that people with diabetes should have their blood glucose levels closely monitored after meals in order to optimize diabetes control and reduce the risk of complications, particularly cardiovascular disease.

Statins for All Diabetic Patients Justified

Posted: Thursday, September 27, 2007

A strategy of treating all diabetic men older than 40 years and all diabetic women older than 45 years with statins would be effective and efficient in reducing cardiovascular disease (CVD) events.

Activity of Any Kind Improves Insulin Sensitivity

Posted: Thursday, September 27, 2007

Total activity -- or more accurately, the lack of it -- appears to be a major driver of insulin resistance, a key component of the metabolic syndrome and a cardiovascular risk factor.

Screen for PAD and Treat as CAD

Posted: Thursday, September 13, 2007

Screening for peripheral arterial disease (PAD) should be performed routinely in all elderly patients and younger ones with cardiovascular risk factors, and should be aggressively treated just as coronary artery disease (CAD).

Perindopril/Indapamide for All Type 2's?

Posted: Thursday, September 13, 2007

If the benefits seen in the study were applied to just half the population with diabetes worldwide, more than a million deaths would be avoided over five years.

Diabetes Must Be Controlled Before Heart Surgery - A1c's Below 7%

Posted: Friday, August 31, 2007

Diabetic patients undergoing heart bypass surgery can markedly reduce their risk of serious complications by keeping their blood sugar levels in check before the operation.

Heart Attack Boosts Diabetes Risk and Diabetes Boosts Heart Attack Risks

Posted: Friday, August 31, 2007

Heart attack patients are up to four-and-a-half times more likely to develop diabetes compared with the general population and more than 15 times more likely to develop high blood sugar.

"We already know that diabetes predisposes one to heart attack, now we add that heart attacks predispose one to diabetes -- one nasty disease leads to another, and it's a two-way process."

Diabetics Have a 75% B1 Deficiency Leading to Vascular Problems

Posted: Thursday, August 16, 2007

A thiamine (Vitamin B1) deficiency may be key to vascular problems for diabetic patients. FDA panel says Avandia offers benefits to people with type 2 disease, but�..

Both Diabetes TZD Drugs 'Pose Heart Risk'

Posted: Friday, August 03, 2007

Rosiglitazone and pioglitazone, both drugs commonly prescribed to treat type 2 diabetes double the risk of heart failure, a study of data on more than 78,000 patients suggests.

FDA To Ask If Avandia Should Stay In The Market

Posted: Friday, August 03, 2007

The FDA will ask outside advisers if GlaxoSmithKline Plc's diabetes drug Avandia should stay on the market or be subject to new warnings or limits.