Heart health should be the front line of diabetes care
...ld be treated aggressively simply because of their diabetic status. A persons risk for CVD can be obtained i...top smoking. High blood pressure (HBP) increases a diabetic patients risk of coronary heart disease (CHD), stroke, kidney failure and heart failure. Treatment ...Insulin pump effective for infants, children
...cose to parents and caretakers. These factors make diabetic control exceedingly difficult in this age group an...four times each day. The effect of pump therapy on diabetic control was assessed through measurements of hemoglobin A1c, frequency and severity of diabetic comp...Risk of heart problems among diabetic patients less than previously thought
... who had suffered a heart attack compared with the diabetic patients. Our results have important implications for clinical practice, in that we should be cautious about basing treatment decisions on individual risk factors for cardiovascular disease in isolation, conclude the authors....Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet, April 16, 2002
...s benchmarks, researchers found that 18 percent of diabetic patients had poor control of blood sugar, 34 percent had high blood pressure, and 58 percent had high cholesterol. Preventing Partner Violence Better Than Just Treating the Victims Treating the victim has been the primary response to violence again...Study suggests insulin may have potential to prevent thrombosis leading to heart attack and stroke
...) study, conducted in Stockholm, which showed that diabetic patients experiencing an acute heart attack who received a low dose infusion of insulin and glucose had a better outcome than patients who weren't infused."The DIGAMI study showed that insulin has a positive effect on acute myocardial infarction, but...More Americans facing blindness than ever before
...of vision impairment and blindness in the U.S. are diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, cat...l people with diabetes will develop some degree of diabetic retinopathy during their lifetime, and risk increases with age and duration of diabetes. People wit...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, March 19, 2002
...e after six months of therapy with pioglitazone, a diabetic drug that helps keep blood sugar levels normal (Brief Communication, p. 449). Six weeks after the drug was discontinued, the patient's liver returned to normal. The authors suspected that pioglitazone caused the liver damage, especially after tests f...Multimillion-dollar pain research center funded at Wake Forest
...rgeries, industrial injuries that damaged a nerve, diabetic neuropathies, shingles pain, and possibly some residual cancer-related pain in people who are now disease-free. He said the research will generate new information about - and hopefully more effective pain-relieving uses for - existing, FDA-approved ...... the 17-week study. Eight of the participants were diabetic and all nine participants had high triglycerides levels ranging from 445 to 9,560 milligrams per deciliter. Normal triglyceride levels are 150 mg/dL or below. The study participants received leptin injections under the skin twice a day for four month...Nutrition education with a food label focus helps diabetics over 65 meet treatment goals
...rth Carolina at Greensboro, has been shown to help diabetic adults, age 65 and older, improve their eating pat...ere are few nutrition education programs for older diabetic adults. Most programs are designed for the younger adult, or those recently diagnosed with the dise......of the DRTC, said the project is ideal for diabetic patients. Hispanics have an increased inci...sted in the care, treatment and outcome of diabetic patients....Some patients not seeking rapid heart attack care
A new study finds the elderly, women, diabetic patients and minorities, who are experiencing symp...e often women (35 percent), black (6 percent), and diabetic patients (25 percent). Between 1990 and 1997, treatment time once patients were in the hospital impr...Blood sugar control partially a function of beliefs
...ationship between various psychosocial factors and diabetic control, or between self-care and diabetic control, among individuals with Type I (insulin-dependent) diabetes, notes lead author Catharine H. ...Tissue engineering could become new coronary bypass
...artery disease, to speed wound healing, or to help diabetic patients who are suffering from peripheral vascular disease. "This new approach allows us to deliver a controlled dose of growth factors to a specific tissue," said David J. Mooney, a professor of biologic and materials science in U-M's College of E......t another six to 10 percent of American adults are diabetic but are unaware of it. In type 2 diabetes, the bod...investigator. "Some 90 to 95 percent of the worlds diabetic patients have type 2, and 80 percent of them are overweight. Obesity appears to trigger the onset of...Study shows obesity bad for the mind too
...ines, but women said it is more serious than being diabetic or having a stroke. Dr. Neil Shear, head of clinical pharmacology in U of T's Faculty of Medicine and director of the Drug Safety Clinic at Sunnybrook and Women's, was surprised at the magnitude of the impact of obesity on people's lives. "Doctors sh......ood-onset type 1 diabetes. Study subjects had been diabetic for an average of 20 years. Dr. Orchard and his colleagues looked at the subjects blood pressure, HDL ("good") cholesterol, LDL ("bad") cholesterol and triglyceride levels and noted the points at which subjects died, or developed coronary artery dise......f both kidney and cardiovascular disease in Type 1 diabetic patients with high blood pressure. Since irbesartan can prevent or delay the progression of kidney disease, dialysis or kidney transplantation, treating patients with this therapy can save lives and improve quality of life, said Lewis. It can als...Early trial at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital shows Angiostatin is safe
...ely, multiple shots injected daily like insulin to diabetic patients may be effective. Also, the drug might be able to be altered to enable it to persist in the bloodstream, like long-acting insulin."The trial is one of two Phase I studies of Angiostatin at Jefferson. A team led by Walter Curran, Jr., M.D., ...Diabetics at greatest risk of complications after re-opening arteries
...or the previous observation of the poor outcome of diabetic patients after coronary balloon angioplasty, says ...hat balloon angioplasty alone must be abandoned in diabetic patients, he says. For this group of patients, using a stent a wire mesh tube implanted to prop op...