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Diabetes Set to Wipe Out Whole Ethnic Populations by End of Century

Posted: Wednesday, November 22, 2006

With one in two having diabetes, it could wipe out Maori and Polynesian Islanders by the end of the century, according to an international expert in the disease.

Progression Of Diabetic Retinopathy Among African-Americans With Diabetes

Posted: Thursday, September 21, 2006

In a six-year study of African Americans with type 1 diabetes, progression of diabetes-related eye disease was high and related to poor blood glucose control and high blood pressure, according to an article in the September issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

Steroids Trial Beats Diabetes Blindness

Posted: Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Australian research has proven the effectiveness of a steroid treatment for a type of diabetic blindness.

`Mr. Diabetes®' Talks the Talk and Walks the Walk

Posted: Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Walking down Commonwealth Avenue, on approximately the 7,500th mile of his perimeter walk around the United States, Andy ``Mr. Diabetes®" Mandell spotted his latest target.

``Hi, may I talk to you for a minute?" Mandell asked the young man walking toward him. ``Do you know anyone with diabetes?"

Type 2 Diabetes Teens Have Higher Complication Risk Then Type 1’s

Posted: Friday, June 09, 2006

Young people with type 2 diabetes are more likely to have high blood pressure and signs of kidney damage than their counterpart who have type 1 diabetes, even though type 2 diabetic have had the disease for a much shorter time.

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.

Retinopathy Occurs Sooner In Pre-diabetes

Posted: Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Retinopathy can lead to blindness in people with diabetes and may occur far sooner than previously thought, possibly when patients are still in the prediabetes stage or when glucose levels are only slightly higher than normal.

Internet Program Launched to Prevent Blindness in Diabetic Patients

Posted: Thursday, May 12, 2005

New High Tech Study to determine if early screening using a special camera and images transmitted over the Internet can prevent blindness in Medicaid patients with diabetes

Hispanics More Prone to Blindness From Diabetes

Posted: Tuesday, September 07, 2004

Results from the Los Angeles Latino Eye Study, published this summer in the journal Ophthalmology, show high rates of eye diseases such as diabetic retinopathy and open-angle glaucoma among 6,357 Latinos age 40 or older. The people are primarily of Minorities. Higher rates of diabetic retinopathy, a complication of diabetes, in the Latino population are closely tied to high rates of diabetes.

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New Treatment Is Saving Eyesight of Diabetics

Posted: Thursday, August 19, 2004

Laser surgery has been used in the past, but it doesn’t work for everyone. Now doctors at John Hopkins have discovered a new therapy that may breathe new life into some damaged eyes.
"By giving patients with diabetic macular edema supplemental oxygen where they simply breathe higher levels of oxygen in, this resulted in a decrease in thickening in the retina and some improvement in visual activity."