Diabetes articles in the "Big 4"

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[Comment] Prevention of diabetic retinopathy
...patients with diabetes develop retinopathy if they live long enough; 50% of patients with type 1 diabetes and 30% of those with type 2 diabetes can expect to develop sight-threatening retinopathy in their lifetime and need intervention to reduce the risk of vision loss. Good control of blood glucose and blood pressure greatly reduces this risk. ...
The Lancet - Apr 17, 2009 10:11 AM

REVIEW ARTICLE: Mechanisms of Disease: Genetics of Type 1A Diabetes
...type 1 diabetes have been studied for more than 30 years, but only recently, with modern genetic tools, has the importance of seemingly minor contributors been appreciated. This article reviews recent advances in knowledge of the genetics of type 1 diabetes and shows how this information could find clinical applications of considerable consequen...
New England Journal of Medicine - Apr 15, 2009 10:44 PM

CME: Genetics of Type 1A Diabetes
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New England Journal of Medicine - Apr 15, 2009 10:44 PM

COMMENTARY: Can Diabetes Be Cured?: Potential Biological and Mechanical Approaches
JAMA current issue - Apr 14, 2009 3:37 PM

JAMA PATIENT PAGE: Diabetes
JAMA current issue - Apr 14, 2009 3:37 PM

ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION: Cardiac Outcomes After Screening for Asymptomatic Coronary Artery Disease in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes: The DIAD Study: A Randomized Controlled Trial
...type 2 diabetes. But the utility of screening patients with type 2 diabetes for asymptomatic CAD is controversial. Objective To assess whether routine screening for CAD identifies patients with type 2 diabetes as being at high cardiac risk and whether it affects their cardiac outcomes. Design, Setting, and Patients The Detection of Ischemia in...
JAMA current issue - Apr 14, 2009 3:37 PM

LETTERS: Low-Glycemic Index vs High-Cereal Fiber Diet in Type 2 Diabetes--Reply
JAMA current issue - Apr 14, 2009 3:37 PM

ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION: C-Peptide Levels and Insulin Independence Following Autologous Nonmyeloablative Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in Newly Diagnosed Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
...type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM) were reported. Most patients became insulin free with normal levels of glycated hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) during a mean 18.8-month follow-up. To investigate if this effect was due to preservation of beta-cell mass, continued monitoring was performed of C-peptide levels after stem cell transplantation in the 15 original...
JAMA current issue - Apr 14, 2009 3:37 PM

LETTERS: Birth Weight and Type 2 Diabetes in Adults
JAMA current issue - Apr 14, 2009 3:37 PM

ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION: Hypoglycemic Episodes and Risk of Dementia in Older Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
...type 1 diabetes, no studies to date have evaluated whether hypoglycemia is a risk factor for dementia in older patients with type 2 diabetes. Objective To determine if hypoglycemic episodes severe enough to require hospitalization are associated with an increased risk of dementia in a population of older patients with type 2 diabetes followed u...
JAMA current issue - Apr 14, 2009 3:37 PM

MEDICAL NEWS & PERSPECTIVES: FDA Warns Against Shared Insulin Pens
JAMA current issue - Apr 14, 2009 3:37 PM

SPECIAL COMMUNICATION: Human Pancreatic Islets and Diabetes Research
...options for diabetes patients and in attempting to prevent the development of this disease. The national Islet Cell Resource Center Consortium provides human pancreatic islets for diabetes research while simultaneously addressing the need to improve islet isolation and transplantation technologies. Since its inception in 2001, the consortium has...
JAMA current issue - Apr 14, 2009 3:37 PM

BOOK AND MEDIA REVIEWS: Controversies in Treating Diabetes: Clinical and Research Aspects
JAMA current issue - Apr 14, 2009 3:37 PM

COMMENTARY: Bariatric Surgery and Diabetes: Who Should Be Offered the Option of Remission?
JAMA current issue - Apr 14, 2009 3:37 PM

LETTERS: Long-term Mortality in Cancer Patients With Preexisting Diabetes
JAMA current issue - Apr 14, 2009 3:37 PM

MEDICAL NEWS & PERSPECTIVES: Hemoglobin A1c Poised to Become Preferred Test for Diagnosing Diabetes
JAMA current issue - Apr 14, 2009 3:37 PM

BOOK AND MEDIA REVIEWS: Management of Diabetes Mellitus: A Guide to the Pattern Approach
JAMA current issue - Apr 14, 2009 3:37 PM

BOOK AND MEDIA REVIEWS: Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: An Evidence-Based Approach to Practical Management
JAMA current issue - Apr 14, 2009 3:37 PM

COMMENTARY: Glucose Control in Type 2 Diabetes: Still Worthwhile and Worth Pursuing
JAMA current issue - Apr 14, 2009 3:37 PM

LETTERS: Low-Glycemic Index vs High-Cereal Fiber Diet in Type 2 Diabetes
JAMA current issue - Apr 14, 2009 3:37 PM

MEDICAL NEWS & PERSPECTIVES: Artificial Pancreas May Soon Be a Reality
JAMA current issue - Apr 14, 2009 3:37 PM

THE WORLD IN MEDICINE: Diabetes Viral Trigger?
JAMA current issue - Apr 14, 2009 3:37 PM

BOOK AND MEDIA REVIEWS: The Discovery of Insulin: Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition
JAMA current issue - Apr 14, 2009 3:37 PM

THE WORLD IN MEDICINE: Arrhythmia and Diabetes
JAMA current issue - Apr 14, 2009 3:37 PM

ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION: Relationship Between Spontaneous and Iatrogenic Hypoglycemia and Mortality in Patients Hospitalized With Acute Myocardial Infarction
Context While glucose control is recommended by professional societies for patients with hyperglycemia hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), enthusiasm for glucose lowering is tempered, in part, by concerns of inducing hypoglycemia. Yet, whether episodic hypoglycemia that occurs as a result of glucose-lowering therapy is harmful in ...
JAMA current issue - Apr 14, 2009 3:37 PM

LETTERS: Birth Weight and Type 2 Diabetes in Adults
JAMA current issue - Apr 14, 2009 3:37 PM

MEDICAL NEWS & PERSPECTIVES: Scientists See Hope, Peril in Trials of Islet Transplantation for Diabetes
JAMA current issue - Apr 14, 2009 3:37 PM

FROM THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION: QuickStats: Age-Adjusted Death Rates* for Diabetes, by Race and Sex -- United States, 1979-2006{dagger}
JAMA current issue - Apr 14, 2009 3:37 PM

COMMENTARY: The Public Health Response to Diabetes--Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
JAMA current issue - Apr 14, 2009 3:37 PM

LETTERS: Birth Weight and Type 2 Diabetes in Adults--Reply
JAMA current issue - Apr 14, 2009 3:37 PM

EDITORIAL: Progress in Diabetes Research--What's Next
JAMA current issue - Apr 14, 2009 3:37 PM

JAMA 100 YEARS AGO: THE PANCREAS AND THE LIVER IN DIABETES
JAMA current issue - Apr 14, 2009 3:37 PM

LETTERS: Long-term Mortality in Cancer Patients With Preexisting Diabetes--Reply
JAMA current issue - Apr 14, 2009 3:37 PM

[Comment] PCI or CABG in coronary artery disease?
...patients with diabetes (hazard ratio 0·70, 95% CI 0·56–0·87) and in those aged 65 years or older (0·82, 0·70–0·97). Furthermore, the combined endpoint of death or repeat revascularisation was reduced with CABG (10%) compared with PCI (25%; 0·41, 0·37–0·45). Being probably the most definitive and authoritative analyses of the previous randomised ...
The Lancet - Apr 3, 2009 10:19 AM

[Comment] Speakable and unspeakable facts about BMI and mortality
...diabetes, and liver disease. These results conclude once and for all what has been observed in smaller studies: obesity shortens lifespan.
The Lancet - Mar 27, 2009 10:40 AM

CORRESPONDENCE: Clinical Risk Factors, DNA Variants, and the Development of Type 2 Diabetes
...type 2 diabetes among people at high risk ...
New England Journal of Medicine - Mar 25, 2009 9:45 PM