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Thursday, August 7th, 2014
Health Aff August 2014 For patients suffering from diabetes and other chronic conditions, a large body of work demonstrates income-related disparities in access to coordinated preventive care. Much less is known about associations between poverty and consequential negative health outcomes. Few studies have assessed geographic patterns that link household incomes to major preventable complications of chronic […]
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Thursday, August 7th, 2014
CDC: July 2014 Key findings Data from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey Office-based physician visits by patients with diabetes increased 20%, from 94.4 million in 2005 to 113.3 million in 2010, but the rate did not change between 2005 and 2010. The visit rate for diabetes increased with age and averaged 1,380 visits per 1,000 […]
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Thursday, August 7th, 2014
CDC: 7/16/14 Guide for PPOD Providers Each section of the PPOD Guide provides a “quick course” on that health care specialty and its relation to diabetes. Because each section is written for professionals outside of that specialty, all team members who might care for a person with diabetes can collaborate and make cross-disciplinary treatment referrals. Inside […]
Minority Diabetes Reports
Thursday, August 7th, 2014
Diabetes Care July 15, 2014 OBJECTIVE Our objective was to examine the effect of language barriers on the risk of acute and chronic complications of diabetes and on mortality among immigrants. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Linked health and immigration databases were used to identify 87,707 adults with diabetes who immigrated to Ontario, Canada, between 1985 and 2005. These […]
Clinical Trial News
Thursday, August 7th, 2014
Diabetes Care July 21, 2014 OBJECTIVE To determine whether an intensive lifestyle intervention (ILI) designed to sustain weight loss and improve physical fitness in overweight or obese persons with type 2 diabetes was associated with bone loss after 4 years of follow-up. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS This randomized controlled trial of intensive weight loss compared an ILI with […]
Clinical Trial News
Thursday, August 7th, 2014
Diabetes Care July 21, 2014 OBJECTIVE Blood pressure (BP) control for renal protection is essential for patients with type 2 diabetes. Our objective in this analysis of Veterans Affairs Diabetes Trial (VADT) data was to learn whether on-study systolic BP (SBP), diastolic BP (DBP), and pulse pressure (PP) affected renal outcomes measured as albumin-to-creatinine ratio (ACR) and […]
Clinical Trial News
Thursday, August 7th, 2014
Diabetes Care July 21, 2014 OBJECTIVE To evaluate weekly subcutaneous albiglutide versus daily sitagliptin in renally impaired patients with type 2 diabetes and inadequately controlled glycemia on a regimen of diet and exercise and/or oral antihyperglycemic medications. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS In this Phase III, randomized, double-blind, multicenter, 52-week study, the primary study end point was HbA1c change from […]
Clinical Trial News
Thursday, August 7th, 2014
The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, Early Online Publication, 18 July 2014 Background Intensive diabetes treatment reduces the risk of developing albuminuria in individuals with type 1 diabetes. Effects on the long-term clinical course of kidney disease remain to be defined. We aimed to compare the long-term effects of intensive versus conventional treatment on incident albuminuria. […]
Clinical Trial News
Thursday, August 7th, 2014
The Diabetes Educator: June 20, 2014 Purpose The purpose of this pilot study was to examine the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of an age-specific diabetes prevention program in young adults with prediabetes. Methods A one-group pretest-posttest design was used. The inclusion criteria were age 18 to 29 years and the presence of prediabetes (either impaired fasting glucose of […]
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Thursday, August 7th, 2014
Springer: Journal of General Internal Medicine – August 2014 BACKGROUND Patient activation interventions (PAIs) engage patients in care by promoting increased knowledge, confidence, and/or skills for disease self-management. However, little is known about the impact of these interventions on a wide range of outcomes for adults with type 2 diabetes (DM2), or which of these interventions, if any, […]
