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General
effect on high-risk persons when general practitioners are trained
in intensive treatment of type 2 diabetes |
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General practitioners identify a high number
of incident diabetes cases in individuals with IFG or IGT found
by high-risk screening. Intervention at the general practitioner's
level in intensive treatment type 2 diabetes does not have a significant
spillover effect reducing the risk of diabetes from pre-diabetic
conditions (Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care) |
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Advances
in the Management of Patients with Diabetes Mellitus: Triumphs
and Tragedies |
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The need for long term studies to establish
the best means of treating Diabetes, was underlined by Prof John
Cleland from the University of Hull at the ESC Congress in Munich
(European Society of Cardiology) |
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Alcohol
Abuse can Damage the Brain by Decreasing Insulin and Insulin-like
Growth Factor Receptors |
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A new study using postmortem human brain tissue
has found that chronic alcohol abuse can decrease levels of genes
needed for brain cells to respond to insulin/IGF, leading to neurodegeneration
similar to that caused by Type 2 diabetes mellitus (ATTC) |
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Interval
training may be the best type of exercise to affect metabolic
syndrome |
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These findings suggest that high-intensity interval
exercise training is more beneficial to preventing and reversing
metabolic syndrome compared with constant, moderate-intensity programs
(Endocrine Today) |
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