The efficacy of self-monitoring of blood glucose in patients with newly diagnosed type-2 diabetes ... that for patients with non-insulin treated type-2 diabetes, intensive self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG ... 2007; 335: 132-6 ). Evidence base Patients should be properly trained in the use of blood ...
Extensive TV watching is associated with poor blood glucose control in children and adolescents with type-1 diabetes, say Norwegian researchers. The study examined the TV watching habits of 538 children ... of glucose in the blood an HbA1c level of 8.2 per cent. In comparison, children who watched more than four ...
The risks of pursuing intensive glucose control in type-2 diabetes may outweigh any benefits, a...the effect of intensive glucose-lowering treatment on cardiovascular events and microvascular complications ... and mortality outcomes are warranted to establish the best approach for glucose lowering in people with type-2 ...
Proposals for 'estimated average glucose' values to be given to patients have been criticised...patients' HbA1c results into an 'average glucose' level. Click here to read the consensus statement from ... estimated average glucose values would 'serve only to confuse people with diabetes, which could ... the research behind calls for estimated average glucose values. 'There is not enough of it and it has largely ...
American Diabetes Association Conference - Novel way to control glucose...The GLP-1 analogue liraglutide can improve blood glucose control when given once a day, a study has shown.The drug is currently in development and is expected to be launched later this year. In the latest study, nearly 500 patients with inadequately controlled type-2 diabetes, who were taking metformin ...
recommend testing of blood (usually in the fasting state). There are a number of issues. There is only a moderate correlation between blood glucose levels and semi-quantative measurements of urinary glucose. So ... of detecting 0.1 per cent glucose concentrations. This may then seem like a reasonable way of screening ...
complications. - Self-monitoring of blood glucose, hailed as one of the most important developments in diabetes ... has supported the use of home blood glucose monitoring in type-2 diabetes, although it indicated ... multidisciplinary group of healthcare professionals published consensus advice on home blood glucose monitoring ...
GPs need to be aware of the risks and benefits of receiving blood, explains Dr Megan Rowley....Most GPs are not involved in the administration of a blood transfusion. However, they need to be aware of the benefits and risks of receiving blood so that they can participate in the preparation of patients who might need blood during major surgery or, alternatively, support patients who have already had ...
Prasugrel, a novel thienopyridine, could protect against stent thrombosis, suggests US research (Lancet Online 2008). A study of prasugrel and clopidogrel, used alongside aspirin, involving almost 13,000 patients, showed a reduction in ischaemic outcomes, regardless of type of stent used, delegates...
A blood test that can identify people at risk of Alzheimer's disease up to six years before symptom...to communicate to other parts of the body. The researchers came up with the concept after comparing blood ... number of changes to a set of signalling proteins were found in the blood plasma of the Alzheimer ... that precede Alzheimer s disease. The researchers expanded the study to include 259 archived blood samples ...
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