Diabetes related articles in the "Big 4"

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[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 (6 days ago)

[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


[Series] Cardiovascular diseases, diabetes mellitus, and cancer in the occupied Palestinian territory
...diabetes mellitus, tobacco smoking, and dyslipidaemia—are high and similar to those in neighbouring countries. The urbanisation and continuing nutritional change from a healthy Mediterranean diet to an increasingly western-style diet is associated with reduced activity, obesity, and a loss of the protective effect of the traditional diet. Rates ...
The Lancet - Mar 20, 2009 12:26 PM

Screening for type 2 diabetes in primary care
Peter E H Schwarz, Jiang Li, and Stefan R Bornstein
BMJ 2009;338 b973

Predicting risk of type 2 diabetes in England and Wales: prospective derivation and validation of QDScore
Julia Hippisley-Cox, Carol Coupland, John Robson, Aziz Sheikh, and Peter Brindle
BMJ 2009;338 b880
[NEWS] Number of global clinical trials done in UK fell by two thirds after EU directive
BMJ current issue - Mar 13, 2009 11:56 AM