BBC News – Fast food ‘fuelling Asia diabetes boom’
A study by Australian and Vietnamese scientists found about 11% of men and 12% of women in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City had undiagnosed type 2 diabetes.
DM2 Up in Vietnam
Author: SupremeCmdr
Richard Lehman’s Journal Blog – July 5 2010
BMJ Group blogs: BMJ » Blog Archive » Richard Lehman’s journal blog, 5 July 2010
I wondered what happened to my RSS feed for this BMJ online column. For months, I did not get the RSS feed. And its mysterious disappearance is only supplanted by an equally mysterious reappearance. So I gratefully pass the link along.
PSA – Still a “Blunt Instrument”
Metformin May Lower Mortality in T2DM Patients
Medical News: ADA: Mortality Lower with Metformin – in Meeting Coverage, ADA from MedPage Today
A large, multicenter trial found a 24% reduced risk of all-cause mortality among patients on the drug, compared with those not taking it, according to Ronan Roussel, MD, PhD, of Groupe Hospitalier Bichat-Claude Bernard in Paris, and colleagues.
HgbA1c and CVD
Glycemic Control and Cardiovascular Disease in 7,454 Patients With Type 1 Diabetes — Diabetes Care
CONCLUSIONS This observational study of patients in modern everyday clinical practice demonstrates progressively increasing risks for CHD and CVD with higher A1C, independently of traditional risk factors, with no J-shaped risk curves. A baseline mean A1C of 7.2% showed considerably reduced risks of CHD and CVD compared with A1C 9.0%, emphasizing A1C as a strong independent risk factor in type 1 diabetes.
Scary Charts of the Day – 6/25/10
Worst Home Sales Numbers Ever « naked capitalism
If you are not a regular reader of Yves Smith, you should be.
Leading Causes of Death US Ages 12-19
Toxoplasma, Cats, and Mental Illness
Research Links Parasite In Cats To Mental Illnesses : NPR
I desperately wanted to title this post “Cats Cause Mental Illness” but I didn’t because that would have been irresponsible.
For the record, I like cats.
Hemoglobin A1c Levels Differ in Black and White Persons Independent of Glucose Level
Glucose-Independent, Black–White Differences in Hemoglobin A1c Levels — Ann Intern Med
Remember, we do not use race in our underwriting.
Edmond Oklahoma 6/14/10
About a mile and a half from my house
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