January 2007
Study: Most Diabetics Don't Exercise
Health Behavior News Digest -- January 26, 2007
(Associated Press) Bad news when it comes to diabetics and exercise: Most people with Type 2 diabetes or at risk for it apparently ignore their doctors' advice to be active. Fewer than 40 percent get exercise, a new study found, and the more in danger the patients are, the less likely they are to be active.
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Costs Lowered for Treatment of Depressed People with Diabetes
ADA Diabetes E-News Now! - January 25, 2007
Using a systematic approach for treating depression in patients with diabetes results in healthcare cost savings, according to a report in the "Archives of General Psychiatry." "For patients with diabetes and co-occurring depression, investing additional resources to effectively treat depression will not increase (and may actually decrease) overall health care spending," Dr. Gregory E. Simon from Center for Health Studies, Seattle, told Reuters Health.
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More Fast Food Meals Mean More Excess Weight
ADA Diabetes E-News Now! - January 25, 2007
A new study provides the best evidence to date that eating fast food makes you fat. Among nearly 3,400 young adults participating in a long-term study, every additional fast food meal they consumed each week correlated with a substantial increase in body mass index (BMI), Dr. Barry M. Popkin of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and colleagues found. "It's a large effect," Popkin told Reuters Health in an interview. "That's enough of an effect to take you from being non-diabetic to diabetic."
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Dietary Zinc for Diabetes Prevention Not Backed by Evidence
Health Behavior News Digest -- January 25, 2007
(Health Behavior News Service) Despite laboratory evidence that zinc helps promote the production and action of insulin — and widespread marketing of zinc supplements for this purpose — no randomized clinical trials show that zinc supplementation prevents the onset of type 2 diabetes.
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Congressional Staff Luncheon Briefing: Reducing the Diabetes Care Gap
Thursday, January 25, 2007
At the briefing, hear directly from leaders of current efforts to create feasible, sustainable programs focused specifically on reaching these populations. The briefing is sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and will include speakers from the Diabetes Initiative, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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Some Blood Pressure Drugs Boost Diabetes Risk
Diabetes In Control Newsletter Issue 348 January 24, 2007
Some common blood pressure drugs can substantially increase the risk of diabetes, especially among those already at risk for the condition, U.S. researchers report.
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Perceptions of Obesity Varies by Race
Diabetes In Control Newsletter Issue 348 January 24, 2007
Compared with overweight white Americans, overweight black Americans are two to three times more likely to say their weight is average -- even after they've been diagnosed as overweight or obese by a doctor, a new study finds.
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ED Drugs Prove Effective, Safe for Men With Diabetes
Health Behavior News Digest -- January 24, 2007
(Health Behavior News Service) Popular drugs used to treat erectile dysfunction — Viagra, Levitra and Cialis — are safe and effective for men with diabetes, a new review has found.
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Drug Improves Chances of Quitting Smoking, Group Says
Health Behavior News Digest -- January 24, 2007
(McClatchy Newspapers) A new anti-smoking drug improves the odds of success threefold for people who want to quit, an independent research group reported Tuesday. The drug, called Chantix by its maker, Pfizer Inc., outperformed the antidepressants that helped some quitters in clinical trials that the British-based Cochrane Collaborative reviewed.
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HMO Fitness Program May Lower Health Care Costs
ADA Diabetes E-News Now! - January 18, 2007
Offering seniors with diabetes the opportunity to participate in a subsidized community-based exercise program may help lower health care costs, if the seniors attend the fitness classes regularly, preliminary study findings suggest. The benefits of exercise, particularly important for people with diabetes, who are at risk of having more functional disability, include reduced health care costs and better physical functioning. Yet, few seniors report participating in regular, moderate-intensity physical activity.
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Updates to Medicare's Diabetes-Related Covered Services in 2007
ADA Diabetes E-News Now! - January 18, 2007
In 2005, Medicare, the federal health insurance program for people age 65 and older and for individuals with disabilities, expanded coverage for preventive services to include diabetes screening. Beginning January 1, 2007, Medicare will provide more coverage for services that affect people with diabetes. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently developed a tip sheet that reviews some of the Medicare covered services related to diabetes, including newly covered services.
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U.S. Healthcare Contributes to the Complications of Diabetes
Diabetes In Control Newsletter Issue 347 January 17, 2007
New report finds that the 46 million people who are uninsured and those with low income received the lowest quality of care and had the most problems with access to preventive health care.
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Obesity Operations Jump In United States
Health Behavior News Digest -- January 11, 2007
(Reuters) More than 120,000 obese Americans had some kind of surgery to help them lose weight in 2004, with the biggest increase among middle-aged people, according to a study released on Wednesday.
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Bridling at Insulin’s Cost, States Push for Generics
Health Behavior News Digest -- January 11, 2007
(New York Times) As they examine their state health care budgets, 11 of the nation’s governors have identified one big-ticket item they think should cost less: insulin.
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Intensively Managed Diabetes Costs $28,661 More Then Conventional Treatment
Diabetes In Control Newsletter Issue 346 January 10, 2007
Even at $28,000 more, the health care system says it represents a good value.
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As Obesity Fight Hits Cafeteria, Many Fear a Note From School
Health Behavior News Digest -- January 8, 2007
(New York Times) Inspired by impressive results in a few well-financed programs, states including Delaware, South Carolina and Tennessee have jumped on the B.M.I. bandwagon, turning the reports — in casual parlance, obesity report cards — into a new rite of childhood.
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Obesity Drugs Need Longer-Term Safety Data, Researchers Say
Health Behavior News Digest -- January 5, 2007
(Bloomberg) Weight-loss treatments need more study to prove they also help people live longer before doctors can be sure the benefits are greater than the risks and that the high cost is justified, researchers said in today's Lancet.
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New Potential Treatment for Diabetes
Diabetes In Control Newsletter Issue 345 January 3, 2007
A new potentially powerful new therapy for diabetes and peripheral vascular disease which promotes nerve development, holds potential for treating diabetes and other diseases.
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New Blood Pressure Guidelines Not Being Met
Diabetes In Control Newsletter Issue 345 January 3, 2007
Despite the publication of increasingly aggressive guidelines for lowering blood pressure in people with diabetes, this condition remains substantially unimproved.
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Gradual Dose Escalation of Pramlintide Improves Its Tolerability and Efficacy
Diabetes In Control Newsletter Issue 345 January 3, 2007
A gradual dose escalation of pramlintide increases its tolerability, while the concomitant reduction of insulin dose increases the safety and results in favorable glycemic and body weight changes
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Risk of Complications in Youth-Onset Type 2 Diabetes
Diabetes In Control Newsletter Issue 345 January 3, 2007
More aggressive screening and treatment is needed in children with type 2 diabetes to prevent complications as they get older.
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Metabolic Syndrome Independently Predicts Vascular Complications in Diabetes
Diabetes In Control Newsletter Issue 345 January 3, 2007
The metabolic syndrome is an independent clinical indicator of micro- or macrovascular complications in diabetes, according to a new report.
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