If the five commonest modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular disease – high cholesterol concentrations, diabetes, hypertension, obesity, and smoking – were eliminated in the United States, deaths from cardiovascular disease would be halved, a new study in the Annals of Internal Medicine has found (Patel et al., 2015). Cardiovascular diseases such as coronary heart disease… Read More
Research Paper Title Traditional Risk Factors Versus Biomarkers for Prediction of Secondary Events in Patients With Stable Coronary Heart Disease: From the Heart and Soul Study. Background Patients with stable coronary heart disease (CHD) have widely varying prognoses and treatment options. Validated models for risk stratification of patients with CHD are needed. The researchers sought… Read More
Research Paper Title Relationship of HbA1c Variability, Absolute Changes in HbA1c, and All-cause Mortality in Type 2 Diabetes: A Danish Population-based Prospective Observational Study. Objective & Design The researcher assessed the relationship of mortality with glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) variability and with absolute change in HbA1c. A population-based prospective observational study with a median follow-up time of… Read More
So you think type 1 diabetes is simple – an autoimmune disease that usually starts in the first two decades of life and causes complete inability to produce insulin? Two new studies challenge the familiar paradigm. One is outlined below the other can be found in the references at the end. Research Paper Title Most… Read More
For all you salt junkies out there, if your dinner last night was missing some zing a newly developed spoon studded with electrodes could help. The spoon creates tastes on your tongue with a pulse of electricity. It has been noted that the spoon may add some extra flavour for people who should not eat certain foods. The… Read More
Diabetes and epilepsy are generally regarded as risk factors for injury in the workplace, but a new population case-control study finds no evidence for this. Using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink, the authors identified 1348 injury cases and 6652 matched controls and found no case of injury due to a seizure. For people with diabetes,… Read More
Social disadvantage linked to diabetes through chronic inflammation. Chronic inflammation explained a quarter to a third of the association between social adversity and type 2 diabetes in a longstanding cohort from the UK. The Whitehall II study has been tracking the health of selected government employees since 1985. The new analyses modelled data from 6387… Read More
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