Posts tagged as:

diabetes

Why rosiglitazone would not have been approved today

March 7, 2010

by Larry Husten, PhD
Avandia continues to dominate cardiovascular-related news this week. Recently, the AHA and the ACC issued a highly detailed, thoughtful, though perhaps slightly over-diplomatic science advisory on TZDs and CV risk. Taking a completely opposite tack, GSK, in no mood to take prisoners, and apparently about to nominate itself for a Nobel Prize, [...]

1 comment Read the full article →

Your metformin may smell like dead fish

March 1, 2010

Originally published in MedPage Today
An immediate-release form of the antidiabetic agent metformin has a dead fish odor that may cause patients to stop taking the drug, clinicians warned.
Metformin is known to cause adverse gastrointestinal effects such as diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, flatulence, distention, and abdominal pain. Those side effects “often necessitate discontinuing the drug,” a [...]

2 comments Read the full article →

Leg and buttock pain can be signs of peripheral arterial disease, especially in patients with diabetes

February 4, 2010

by Michael Jaff, MD
Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD), a condition commonly correlated with diabetes, also known as a “silent killer,” affects at least one in every three diabetics over the age of 50 and approximately eight million Americans in total over the age of 40. Although PAD is prolific among diabetic and senior populations, current data [...]

1 comment Read the full article →

How bad is childhood obesity in the United States?

January 25, 2010

Originally posted in Insidermedicine
The problem of childhood obesity in the United States has held fast during the past decade, according to research published in the January 20 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

1 comment Read the full article →

How to prevent diabetes with diet and exercise

January 20, 2010

by Erin Marcus, MD
By all accounts, Frances Vasquez ought to be a diabetic. Raised on a diet of fried steak, fried pork chops and lots of rice, her father, mother, and two sisters suffered from the disease. At age 47, Frances was overweight and already experiencing high blood sugar.
But over the past 11 years, Frances [...]

4 comments Read the full article →

How to identify children at high risk for developing diabetes

January 8, 2010

Originally published in Insidermedicine
Standard measurements taken in doctors’ offices, such as height, weight, blood pressure, and cholesterol levels can help predict which school-aged children will go on to develop type 2 diabetes, according to research published in the January issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.

Read the full article →

Low pay for diabetes care harms patients

December 4, 2009

Originally posted in MedPage Today
by John Gever, MedPage Today Senior Editor
Almost one-third of doctors in an industry-sponsored survey said they didn’t spend enough time with their diabetic patients and blamed low reimbursement rates for diabetes care, researchers said.
In a survey of 200 primary care physicians and 100 endocrinologists, 32% reported an inability to provide [...]

2 comments Read the full article →

What is the best insulin regimen for patients with diabetes?

November 6, 2009

Originally published in Insidermedicine
The best method for taking insulin among individuals with type 2 diabetes has been identified in research published in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Read the full article →

Is the newest, long-lasting insulin necessarily the best?

October 27, 2009

Originally published in HCPLive.com
by Anita Ramsetty, MD
We are very fortunate to have a number of newer insulins available for our patients.
For years we had animal insulins only. NPH and Regular, then we had Ultralente. The development of analog insulins marked the upswing in technology that we would sustain for a period of time. The [...]

1 comment Read the full article →

How to protect yourself from abdominal aortic aneurysms

September 22, 2009

by Mark Adelman, MD
While diseases like prostate cancer and heart disease have become household concerns, abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA), the 10th leading cause of death in men age 55 and older, have been overshadowed by more prominent diseases for far too long. It’s time we pull back the curtain and take a closer look [...]

2 comments Read the full article →

How comfortable are compression stockings for post-surgical thromboprophylaxis?

September 14, 2009

by Crystal Phend, MedPage Today
“Every 10 years a doctor should be the patient,” said my doctor, squeezing me into pair of compression stockings that would make a sausage casing seem spacious by comparison.
“Seems like a good idea,” I thought, as I lay there on the table feeling optimistic about the opportunity for first-hand experience.
It [...]

1 comment Read the full article →

Did the Avandia scare harm patients, and is Steven Nissen to blame?

July 17, 2009

The recent RECORD trial did not associate the diabetes drug Avandia with cardiovascular events.
Internist Matthew Mintz, a staunch defender of the drug, argues that because of the scare, “over 100,000 type 2 diabetic patients [needed] insulin, which could have been avoided.”
Who’s to blame? Dr. Mintz blames cardiologist Steven Nissen, whose questionable meta-analysis started the [...]

8 comments Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Site Meter