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New Onset Diabetes Increases Risk For Heart Attack 3 Fold

Posted: Friday, May 14, 2004

Compared with patients without diabetes, those with new diabetes were 2.9-times more likely to experience a heart attack or related event -- an elevated risk similar to the 3.6-fold risk seen in patients with long-standing diabetes.

Pre-Diabetes Increases Colon Cancer Risk

Posted: Friday, April 16, 2004

As people get fatter, their bodies begin to resist the effects of insulin. To compensate, their pancreases make more and more of the sugar-lowering stuff. Ma and colleagues now show that people whose bodies make the most insulin because of insulin resistance have the highest risk of colon cancer.

Statins Are Underused and Underdosed!

Posted: Thursday, March 18, 2004

The practice of under-dosing statins is just bad medicine and bad economics because low-dose statins do not offer the cardiovascular disease protection of higher-dose statins, so the patients have not reduced their risk of cardiovascular events.

Diabetes Doubles Risk of Liver Disease and Liver Cancer

Posted: Thursday, February 19, 2004

In the largest study of its kind, researchers have shown that diabetes can cause chronic liver disease and cancer of the liver.

High Blood Sugars and Insulin Levels, Increase Risk For Colon Cancer

Posted: Friday, February 13, 2004

"The growing recognition that colorectal cancer may be promoted by hyperinsulinemia and insulin resistance suggests that a diet inducing high blood glucose levels and an elevated insulin response may contribute to a metabolic environment conducive to tumor growth," write Susan Higginbotham and colleagues from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Need for More Aggressive in-Hospital Glucose Control

Posted: Saturday, December 27, 2003

Blood glucose is often ignored by nurses and physicians who focus only on the reason for admission, not the underlying disease. Better control can help decrease length of stay and reduce morbidity and mortality, especially in diabetics admitted for cardiovascular conditions, according to the statement, issued at the Consensus Development Conference on Inpatient tes and Metabolic Control.

Beta-Blockers Improve Survival Outcomes In Diabetics With Heart Failure

Posted: Wednesday, December 10, 2003

Beta-blockers provide substantial benefits to heart failure patients when given with other drugs called ACE inhibitors, the authors explain. However, many doctors are reluctant to give beta-blockers to diabetics out of concern for possible side effects on blood sugar levels. Still, based on the present analysis, it is possible to conclude that heart failure patients, with or without diabetes, should probably receive a beta-blocker unless they have strict reason not to, the researchers state.

New Study Backs Low-Carb Diets

Posted: Wednesday, December 10, 2003

A study by doctors at Christiana Care Health System shows that patients with medical problems lost weight safely on a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet, similar to the popular Atkins plan.Patients lost 5 percent of body weight in six weeks safely."The really surprising thing to me is that this very high fat intake appears not only to reduce weight but to control risk factors for heart disease and diabetes,"

Having 1 or More of 4 Risk Factors Increases Risk of Coronary Death 95%

Posted: Tuesday, November 18, 2003

Two analyses now show that 80%-90% of CHD patients—and 95% of those with fatal CHD events—have at least one of four major risk factors (smoking, hypertension, high cholesterol, or diabetes).

New Drug Mimics HDL “Good Cholestrol to Clear Coronary Arteries In 2 Weeks

Posted: Tuesday, November 18, 2003

A synthetic form of "good cholesterol" has been shown to quickly shrink blockages clogging coronary arteries, offering for the first time the possibility of a drug that could actually rapidly reverse heart disease.