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Don’t worry, I’ll still be providing diabetes news and updates here. And the “Putting a Face on Diabetes” interview series remains alive and well! (A little “health” humor there! Tee hee).
This is an exciting time for diabetics everywhere, as each day we know more about the disease and get closer to a cure.
Remember if you’re a Type 1 or Type 2 diabetic who is interested in being interviewed, please send me an email at: …read more

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Here’s an interesting bit of research from BD Diabetes:
“People with diabetes given intensive drug treatment soon after diagnosis are healthier when they grow older, even if they become less rigorous about controlling their blood sugar later on.”
That means if you get diabetes (even Type 2) you should go on meds first rather than trying to control the disease with diet and exercise first. (Although you should still eat right and work out – there’s no avoiding that people!) The thing that I found very odd was that even if the patients were less rigorous …read more

The number of pregnant women that have pre-existing diabetes has more then doubled over the last decade. Alicia at Mental Health Notes sent me over this very disturbing but important article. Being diabetic places you in the ‘high risk’ category during pregnancy and increases ones risk for miscarriage, stillbirth and birth defects.
The actual number of pregnant women with pre-existing diabetes… In 1999, there were 245 such women; by 2005, there were 537. That translates to a rate that rose from 8 per 1,000 pregnancies to 18 per 1,000. The rate increased the greatest among 13- to 19-year-olds giving birth. It …read more

The standard A1c test is now said to underestimate true glucose control in dialysis patients which could lead to a very false sense of comfort. This came as a real shock for the over 200,000 diabetics that depend on hemodialysis and nephrology community alike.
This study evaluated 307 patients with diabetes — 258 with end-stage kidney disease on hemodialysis and 49 who did not have kidney failure. The researchers compared the standard HbA1c test with a newer test (glycated albumin, or GA) that measures the amount of blood sugar that has reacted with albumin, a protein in the plasma. The GA …read more