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December 2007
Treating Depression Cuts Diabetes Death Risk
Forbes.com - December 21, 2007
(HealthDay News) Treating depression can help extend the lives of people with diabetes, concludes a University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine study in the December issue of the journal Diabetes Care. It found that providing depression care management to older adults with diabetes and depression reduced the risk of death over five years by about 50 percent.
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Quality Improvement Initiatives Lead to Progress in Diabetes Care
ADA Diabetes World - December 20, 2007
According to the December issue of Medical Care's article regarding diabetes care, the Chronic Care Model (CCM) worked best for type 2 diabetes patients when research data was followed throughout the care programs, particularly with regard to reductions in coronary heart disease.
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'Whole Patient' Approach Needed in Diabetes Care
ADA Diabetes World - December 20, 2007
Researchers recently found 92 percent of elderly patients with diabetes also suffered from at least one other chronic disease. In fact, half of those patients surveyed reported at least three other chronic illnesses. The study, recorded in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, surveyed 1,900 older patients with diabetes.
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Avandia Heart Risks Seen at the Population Level
ADA Diabetes World - December 13, 2007
The findings of clinical trials have linked the use of thiazolidinediones, a class of diabetes drugs, with congestive heart failure and possibly heart attacks. Now, new research indicates that these associations, at least with Avandia, also apply to individuals in the community, and not just clinical trials.
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Risk of Coronary Artery Disease in Type 2 Diabetes and the Delivery of Care Consistent With the Chronic Care Model in Primary Care Settings
ADA Diabetes World - December 13, 2007
A new STARNet study examines the risks for coronary heart disease (CHD) in type 2 diabetes and whether primary care settings are consistent with the chronic care model (CCM.) The study found that a third of the absolute CHD risk, which was 16.2 percent, could be attributed to poor risk control factors.
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Understanding the Gap Between Good Processes of Diabetes Care and Poor Intermediate Outcomes
ADA Diabetes World - December 13, 2007
Performance of diabetes clinical care processes have improved at a faster pace than control of hemoglobin A1c and other vascular disease risk factors. Researchers set out to pinpoint patient factors related to control of vascular disease risk factors among patients with diabetes who received recommended care processes.
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Keeping Insulin in Check Important in Breast Cancer
Health Behavior News Digest -- December 13, 2007
(Reuters) Women with breast cancer and elevated insulin levels face a significantly higher risk of death than their counterparts with lower insulin levels, research suggests.
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Smokers Should Be Screened for Type 2 Diabetes, Harvard Researchers Say
Health Behavior News Digest -- December 12, 2007
(Boston Globe) Smokers should be screened for type 2 diabetes and encouraged to quit smoking to prevent it, two Boston researchers recommend based on a new review of studies linking smoking and diabetes.
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Another Study Finds Heart Risks in a Diabetes Drug
Health Behavior News Digest -- December 12, 2007
(New York Times) An independent analysis of thousands of older people with diabetes found that those treated with the widely used drug Avandia had significantly elevated risks of heart attack and death.
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Seniors' Walking Speed May Predict Longevity
Health Behavior News Digest -- December 10, 2007
(Washington Post) How fast an older person walks may predict long-term survival, report researchers at the University of Pittsburgh who found that faster walkers were substantially more likely to outlive the slowest.
Read more >> Calls Help Couch Potatoes Walk
Health Behavior News Digest -- December 7, 2007
(Associated Press) Researchers at Stanford University, who studied sedentary people for a year, found that automated exercise reminder phone calls had about the same get-up-and-go power as calls from human counselors.
Read more >> Diabetes Drug Tied to Bone Fractures
Health Behavior News Digest -- December 3, 2007
(Associated Press) The popular diabetes drug marketed as Avandia may increase bone thinning, a discovery that could help explain why diabetics can have an increased risk of fractures.
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