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Comment Treating neurodegenerative disease before illness: a challenge for the 21st century
Clinicians have long recognised that pathological processes can impair organ function before clinical signs emerge, especially in chronic illness. Cardiac myocytes and renal tubular epithelial cells are thought to dwindle well in advance of overt clinical signs of cardiac and renal failure. Furthermore, often in retrospect, patients recognise that non-specific or subtle symptoms and signs (eg, fatigue) occurred before more overt features of illness such as pedal oedema or dyspnoea. Evidence that elevated systolic blood pressure, serum glucose, and cholesterol concentrations are clinically silent—but readily measurable—...
Source: Lancet Neurology - March 20, 2016 Category: Neurology Authors: Karl Kieburtz Tags: Comment Source Type: research
Diabetes Mellitus in Peru
Conclusions Diabetes is a major health care issue in Peru that exposes difficult challenges and shortcomings. The national strategy for tackling diabetes includes promotion of healthy lifestyles; training primary care physicians and providing them with evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, safe and effective medications, and tools for monitoring treatment; and, finally, construction of a comprehensive health care network for early referral in order to prevent, detect, and treat diabetic complications.
Source: Annals of Global Health - April 22, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
Diabetes Increases Four-Fold Worldwide
GENEVA (AP) — Excessive weight, obesity, aging and population growth drove a nearly four-fold increase in worldwide cases of diabetes over the last quarter-century, affecting 422 million people in 2014, the World Health Organization reported Wednesday.
In a new report on diabetes, the U.N. health agency called for stepped-up measures to reduce risk factors for diabetes and improve treatment and care that has ballooned in recent years alongside an increase in obesity rates. WHO said 8.5 percent of the world population had diabetes two years ago, up from 108 million, or 4.7 percent, in 1980.
On Wednesday, WHO Director-Ge...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - April 7, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News Patient Care Source Type: news
Who said there is no cure? Man proves you can EAT your way out of type 2 diabetes
TYPE 2 diabetes is a serious health condition which lead to blindness, kidney failure, increases the risk of heart disease and stroke and even lead to limb amputations.
Source: Daily Express - Health - May 26, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How to EAT your way out of diabetes: Man's 'diet overhaul' CURED condition
TYPE 2 diabetes is a serious health condition which can lead to blindness, kidney failure, increases the risk of heart disease and stroke and even possible to limb amputations.
Source: Daily Express - Health - May 28, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Do YOU have smartphone blindness?
Experts from Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, warned this fleeting loss of vision is too often mistaken for a stroke, leading to ‘unnecessary anxiety and costly investigations’.
Source: the Mail online | Health - June 22, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
No more sneaking sugar into packaged foods
The iconic black-and-white Nutrition Facts label you find on packaged foods in the United States is getting its first makeover in two decades. The federal government decided last month to update the food label beginning in 2018 by listing how much sugar has been added to a product.
The current label lumps added sugar with naturally occurring sugars in the foods themselves, which is a deceptive practice, said Dr. John Swartzberg, a UC Berkeley clinical professor emeritus and editorial board chair of the UC Berkeley Wellness Letter. So listing added sugar “will hopefully guide people away from consuming products with a ...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - June 30, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
P-021 Very Delayed Monocular Blindness Following Flow Diversion Treatment of Ophthalmic Artery Aneurysm
ConclusionMonocular vision loss remains a risk, even months to years following flow diversion of ICA aneurysms. Long term clinical follow-up is necessary to define the incidence of this complication.Abstract P-021 Figure 1DisclosuresT. Higashimori: None. D. Sandhu: None. J. Kim: None. A. Grande: None. M. Ezzeddine: None. R. Tummala: None. B. Jagadeesan: None.
Source: Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery - July 28, 2016 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Higashimori, T., Sandhu, D., Kim, J., Grande, A., Ezzeddine, M., Tummala, R., Jagadeesan, B. Tags: Oral poster abstracts Source Type: research
Response to: 'Biologic agents for giant cell arteritis: treat to target by Moiseev et al
We thank Moiseev et al for their interest in our study of ustekinumab in giant cell arteritis (GCA).1 2 Our pilot study reported promising initial results from the use of ustekinumab in GCA.1 GCA is a potentially devastating disease with cranial ischaemic complications such as blindness and stroke occurring in 20%–25% of patients.3 While corticosteroids are effective in reducing the risk of cranial ischaemic complications, they do not fully extinguish the vascular inflammation in patients with GCA4–6 with consequent risk of disease relapse and longer-term consequences such as aortic aneurysms.7 8 Furthermore, c...
Source: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases - August 9, 2016 Category: Rheumatology Authors: Conway, R., Molloy, E. S. Tags: Electronic pages Source Type: research
Diabetes Increases Four-Fold Worldwide
GENEVA (AP) — Excessive weight, obesity, aging and population growth drove a nearly four-fold increase in worldwide cases of diabetes over the last quarter-century, affecting 422 million people in 2014, the World Health Organization reported Wednesday.
In a new report on diabetes, the U.N. health agency called for stepped-up measures to reduce risk factors for diabetes and improve treatment and care that has ballooned in recent years alongside an increase in obesity rates. WHO said 8.5 percent of the world population had diabetes two years ago, up from 108 million, or 4.7 percent, in 1980.
On Wednesday, WHO Directo...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - April 7, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News Patient Care Source Type: news
Diabetic retinopathy screening: global and local perspective.
Abstract
Diabetes mellitus has become a global epidemic. It causes significant macrovascular complications such as coronary artery disease, peripheral artery disease, and stroke; as well as microvascular complications such as retinopathy, nephropathy, and neuropathy. Diabetic retinopathy is known to be the leading cause of blindness in the working-age population and may be asymptomatic until vision loss occurs. Screening for diabetic retinopathy has been shown to reduce blindness by timely detection and effective laser treatment. Diabetic retinopathy screening is being done worldwide either as a national screening...
Source: Hong Kong Med J - August 25, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Gangwani RA, Lian JX, McGhee SM, Wong D, Li KK Tags: Hong Kong Med J Source Type: research
The Different Faces of the Pancreatic Islet.
Authors: Abdulreda MH, Rodriguez-Diaz R, Cabrera O, Caicedo A, Berggren PO
Abstract
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) patients who receive pancreatic islet transplant experience significant improvement in their quality-of-life. This comes primarily through improved control of blood sugar levels, restored awareness of hypoglycemia, and prevention of serious and potentially life-threatening diabetes-associated complications, such as kidney failure, heart and vascular disease, stroke, nerve damage, and blindness. Therefore, beta cell replacement through transplantation of isolated islets is an important option in the treatment of...
Source: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology - September 3, 2016 Category: Research Tags: Adv Exp Med Biol Source Type: research
A Surprising Number Of People Can't Recognize Voices
For me, caller ID is one of the best inventions of all time. Before it became mainstream, I dreaded picking up the phone. A lot of times, I couldn’t recognize the person on the other side by just hearing his or her voice, and so I was often subjected to a slew of jokes and mockery and puzzle-solving.
It turns out I was hardly alone in my misery. An inability to identify people by their voices is a poorly understood deficit called phonagnosia ― a term coming from “phone,” meaning “voice” in Ancient Greek, and “agnosia,” meaning a “loss of knowledge.”
And the ...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - September 7, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
The Impact of Temporal Artery Biopsy on Surgical Practice
Conclusions TAB is an expensive procedure with a low positive yield. Recent evidence suggests promising results with USS in diagnosing GCA. With the exceedingly low positive TAB results found in this study, patients with suspected GCA should be investigated in accordance with the above algorithm. The routine use of USS will reduce the number of negative TAB performed.
Source: Annals of Medicine and Surgery - September 19, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: research
