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Do You Have Hypoglycemia Unawareness?
If you take drugs that can cause hypoglycemia, you need to know about “hypoglycemia unawareness.” (Click for a quick review of diabetes drugs.) Some people with diabetes, particularly after having the...
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Is the Hemoglobin A1c Test Always Accurate?
Can you believe I’ve had patients show me a week’s worth of home glucose tests showing great numbers, tell me they’ve been that good for the last three months, and then I find a sky high Hemoglobin A1c...
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Natural Versus Drug Therapy for Metabolic Syndrome
Have you heard that 60% of adults in the U.S. are taking prescription drugs? That’s up from 50% a decade ago. UPI has the pertinent details. A snippet: Many of the most used drugs reflect the effects...
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Is Alzheimer’s Disease Caused By Type 2 Diabetes?
Several scientific studies, but not all, link type 2 diabetes with Alzheimer’s disease. Some go so far as to say Alzheimer’s is type 3 diabetes. My Twitter feed brought to my attention a scientific...
View ArticleDiet Changes Help With Diabetic Gastroparesis
When you eat a meal, your stomach holds it there for a while then gradually releases contents into the duodenum, the first part of the small intestine. The stomach makes those releases by contraction...
View ArticleWhy Can’t You Score a Great Hemoglobin A1c?
The good folks over at Diabetes Daily conducted a survey of people with diabetes to find out what they were doing to get good HgbA1c levels. HgbA1c is a measure of average blood sugar levels over the...
View ArticleIf You Must Eat Grains, Minimally-Processed May Be Better for You
From Diabetes Care: Consuming less-processed whole-grain foods over 2 weeks improved measures of glycemia in free-living adults with type 2 diabetes compared with an equivalent amount of whole-grain...
View ArticleGastric Bypass Cuts Risk of Retinopathy in Type 2 Diabetes
Retinopathy is a fancy word meaning disease of the retina, the light detecting membrane at the back of the eyeball. About two in five folks with diabetes have some form or degree of diabetic...
View ArticleGlucagon for Hypoglycemia Unawareness
Diabetes Daily has in important interview with Dr Steven Edelman on hypoglycemia (particularly in type 1 diabetes) and the need for injectable glucacon to treat it. This could easily apply also to type...
View ArticleNeurontin and Lyrica for Pain Suppression: Do They Work?
Physicians in the U.S. who prescribe opioids need a license from the Drug Enforcement Administration and it has to be renewed periodically. By the time of my next renewal, I must be able to prove to...
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