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Preventing Heart Attacks?

By AmyT on October 13, 2009

I’m off to Dallas today to take part in a special patient advisory council* for the American Heart Association, which is desperately trying to reach out to people with diabetes about heart health.
They’ve created a program called Heart of Diabetes (sponsored by Takeda Pharmaceuticals) and are busy gathering patient stories in video format. Now they’re trying to figure out how to further get the word out, to people with Type 2 diabetes in particular,…

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Severe Hypoglycemia Linked to Dementia and other Big (Bad) JAMA Diabetes News

By AmyT on April 15, 2009

The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has devoted an entire special issue to Diabetes this week.  It features the results of four big studies that are enlightening, but are not going to make you happy.
The first comes from Kaiser Permanente, and shows that in elderly people with Type 2 diabetes, severe hypoglycemia is closely linked to dementia.  That is, the study showed that patients experiencing just one single severe bout of low…

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