Cdc.gov: May 22, 2012. Healthier lifestyles, better disease management are helping people live longer Death rates for people with diabetes dropped substantially from 1997 to 2006, especially deaths related to heart disease and stroke, according to researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health. Deaths from all causes declined […]
Reuters.com: By Amy Norton NEW YORK | Mon May 21, 2012 5:49pm EDT. (Reuters Health) – The percentage of U.S. teenagers with “pre-diabetes” or full-blown type 2 diabetes has more than doubled in recent years — though obesity and other heart risk factors have held steady, government researchers reported Monday. The good news, the researchers say, is that […]
Medcitynews.com | Stephanie Baum | 5.17.12 To identify people with diabetes who underutilize healthcare, you don’t need real-time video hookups or smartphone apps. You just need a lot of data to find the people and a big physical infrastructure to deliver the care. That’s the approach theNational Association of Area Agencies on Aging is proposing to cut the costs […]
From the distribution of pharmacies, trauma centers and emergency rooms to the number of lung, colon and breast cancer patients in major metropolitan areas, “Texas Health Atlas,” published by Texas A&M University Press, provides a geographic perspective on the state’s healthcare system. College Station, TX (PRWEB) May 16, 2012. With almost 200 pages of […]
Position Statement of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) Care.diabetesjournals.org: April 19, 2012. S.E. Inzucchi and D.R. Matthews were co-chairs for the Position Statement Writing Group. R.M. Bergenstal, J.B. Buse, A.L. Peters, and R. Wender were the Writing Group for the ADA. M. Diamant, E. Ferrannini, M. […]
Care.diabetesjournals.org: May 22, 2012. OBJECTIVE To examine whether the association between gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and BMI category varies by racial/ethnic group. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS In a cohort of 123,040 women without recognized pregravid diabetes who delivered babies between 1995 and 2006 at Kaiser Permanente of Northern California, we examined racial/ethnic disparities in the prevalence of […]
Healthymagination.com: By Mary Mihaly | Posted May 21 2012 Diabetes, minority health, Mobile Applications One of the frustrations of modern medicine is the difficulty in delivering care and education to those who might need it most, and health disparities among racial and ethnic minorities have long been a special concern. Now, a new initiative calledmHealth, led by the […]
tde.sagepub.com: May 18, 2012. The purpose of this study was to estimate the benefit of using a cultural characteristics scale to help diabetes educators understand how African Americans cope with diabetes. Illness representations are influenced by culture. Race and ethnicity as a proxy for culture provides an incomplete understanding of the mechanism by which cultural values […]
Diabetes.diabetesjournals.org: May 14, 2012. Cigarette smoking is a risk factor for type 2 diabetes. Genetic variants in the nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) genes have been associated with smoking phenotypes and are likely to influence diabetes. Although each single variant may have only a minor effect, the joint contribution of multiple single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) to the […]
Archopht.jamanetwork.com: Clinical Sciences | Monique S. Roy, MD; Ronald Klein, MD; Malvin N. Janal, PhD, May 2012. To examine the relationship between retinal arteriolar and venular diameter and the 6-year incidence of cardiovascular disease and mortality among African Americans with type 1 diabetes mellitus. Methods Included were 468 African Americans with type 1 diabetes mellitus who participated in the […]
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