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Thursday, June 28th, 2012
Care.diabetesjournals.org: July 2012. OBJECTIVE To describe trends of primary efficacy and safety outcomes of islet transplantation in type 1 diabetes recipients with severe hypoglycemia from the Collaborative Islet Transplant Registry (CITR) from 1999 to 2010. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A total of 677 islet transplant-alone or islet-after-kidney recipients with type 1 diabetes in the CITR were analyzed for […]
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Thursday, June 28th, 2012
Medicalxpress.com: June 25, 2012 in Addiction Adults who are exposed to secondhand smoke have higher rates of obesity and Type 2 diabetes than do nonsmokers without environmental exposure to tobacco smoke, a new study shows. The results will be presented at The Endocrine Society’s 94th Annual Meeting in Houston. “More effort needs to be made to reduce exposure […]
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Thursday, June 28th, 2012
By Charles Bankhead, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Published: June 24, 2012. Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco HOUSTON — Diabetic patients treated with three commonly prescribed sulfonylurea drugs had a 50% higher mortality risk compared with patients treated with metformin, data from a large retrospective cohort study suggested. The relative […]
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Thursday, June 28th, 2012
ScienceDaily (June 21, 2012) Preventing diabetes or delaying its onset has been thought to stave off cognitive decline — a connection strongly supported by the results of a 9-year study led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the San Francisco VA Medical Center. Earlier studies have looked at cognitive decline […]
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Thursday, June 28th, 2012
Archderm.jamanetwork.com: June 2012. Objective To assess the risk of incident diabetes mellitus (DM) in patients with psoriasis and to evaluate DM treatment patterns among patients with psoriasis and incident DM. Design Population-based cohort study. Setting United Kingdom–based electronic medical records. Patients We matched 108 132 patients with psoriasis aged 18 to 90 years with 430 716 unexposed patients based […]
Minority Diabetes Reports
Thursday, June 28th, 2012
Tandfonline.com: June 20, 2012. Type II diabetes affects Hispanic populations disproportionately and is the fifth leading cause of death for Hispanic people in the United States (Smith & Barnett, 2005). Risk of diabetes is of great concern throughout the United States and is clearly of epidemic proportions for regions such as the Southwest and Texas […]
Minority Diabetes Reports
Thursday, June 28th, 2012
The Diabetes Educator: June 20, 2012. The purpose of the study was to test the feasibility and efficacy of a diabetes self-management and education program for Chinese Americans in a support group format. The rationale for the study was to create culturally appropriate diabetes education and management programs in response to the growing diabetes prevalence among […]
Minority Diabetes Reports
Thursday, June 28th, 2012
A researcher says an organization’s leadership plays a key role in ensuring that everyone receives equal care. By CAROLYNE KRUPA, amednews staff. Posted June 18, 2012. Public and private entities nationwide are tackling the complex challenge of reducing health disparities among racial and ethnic minorities, but many national physician associations and societies have little or no programs to […]
Minority Diabetes Reports
Thursday, June 28th, 2012
Endocrinetoday.com: Posted on June 12, 2012. PHILADELPHIA — Use of a Spanish-language, tablet computer-based communication tool resulted in a higher rate of discussion of CVD risk and changes in medications to treat risk factors in a group of Hispanic adults with type 2 diabetes. Paris Roach, MD, reported data from a randomized controlled comparison of the intervention, as […]
Minority Diabetes Reports
Thursday, June 28th, 2012
Care.diabetesjournals.org: May 17, 2012. OBJECTIVE Elevated plasma interleukin-18 (IL-18) has been linked to onset of diabetes mellitus (DM) and its complications. However, so far this association has been shown only in predominantly white populations. We examined IL-18 levels and their association with incident DM in a racially heterogeneous population. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS In a nested case-cohort design […]
