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Inaccurate Risk Perceptions and Individualized Risk Estimates by Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
Conclusions: Personalized risk estimates, particularly about mortality, had limited salience. Some participants could not understand the information, despite presentation in ways suggested by previous research.
Source: Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine - July 7, 2014 Category: Primary Care Authors: Saver, B. G., Mazor, K. M., Hargraves, J. L., Hayes, M. Tags: Original Research Source Type: research

"Pictures Don't Lie, Seeing Is Believing": Exploring Attitudes to the Introduction of Pictorial Warnings on Cigarette Packs in Ghana
Conclusions: Warning labels combining pictures and text have the potential to reduce smoking uptake, increase quit attempts, and reduce smoking appeal among smokers and nonsmokers in Ghana. Measures to prevent single stick sales, or to promote health messages to purchasers of single sticks, are required.
Source: Nicotine and Tobacco Research - November 24, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Singh, A., Owusu-Dabo, E., Britton, J., Munafo, M. R., Jones, L. L. Tags: Original Investigation Source Type: research

Role of natural herbs in the treatment of hypertension.
Authors: Tabassum N, Ahmad F Abstract Hypertension (HTN) is the medical term for high blood pressure. It is dangerous because it makes the heart work too hard and contributes to atherosclerosis (hardening of arteries), besides increasing the risk of heart disease and stroke. HTN can also lead to other conditions such as congestive heart failure, kidney disease, and blindness. Conventional antihypertensives are usually associated with many side effects. About 75 to 80% of the world population use herbal medicines, mainly in developing countries, for primary health care because of their better acceptability with huma...
Source: Pharmacognosy Reviews - November 25, 2014 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Tags: Pharmacogn Rev Source Type: research

Screening and Treatment by the Primary Care Provider of Common Diabetes Complications
Diabetes is the leading cause of end-stage renal disease, blindness, and nontraumatic lower-limb amputation. The largest reductions in cardiovascular events are seen when multiple risk factors are addressed simultaneously. The benefit of aspirin as secondary prevention in patients with previous stroke or myocardial infarction has been well established. Regular, dilated eye examinations are effective in detecting sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy and have been shown to prevent blindness. The use of appropriate tools and clinical examination/inspection provides greater than 87% specificity in detecting diabetic peripher...
Source: Medical Clinics of North America - October 27, 2014 Category: Primary Care Authors: Matthew P. Gilbert Source Type: research

Offer weight loss surgery to obese people with diabetes
A quarter of the UK population is now obese, fuelling a rise in cases of type 2 diabetes, as well as heart disease, fatty liver disease and cancer. One in 20 people in the UK has type 2 diabetes, a progressive disease that causes heart disease, stroke, blindness, kidney failure and limb amputations. Updated NICE guidance focuses on identifying, assessing and treating people who are already obese.
Source: NHS Networks - December 1, 2014 Category: UK Health Authors: Maria Axford Source Type: news

Screening and Treatment by the Primary Care Provider of Common Diabetes Complications.
Abstract Diabetes is the leading cause of end-stage renal disease, blindness, and nontraumatic lower-limb amputation. The largest reductions in cardiovascular events are seen when multiple risk factors are addressed simultaneously. The benefit of aspirin as secondary prevention in patients with previous stroke or myocardial infarction has been well established. Regular, dilated eye examinations are effective in detecting sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy and have been shown to prevent blindness. The use of appropriate tools and clinical examination/inspection provides greater than 87% specificity in detecting...
Source: The Medical Clinics of North America - December 8, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Gilbert MP Tags: Med Clin North Am Source Type: research

Anton–Babinski syndrome in an old patient: a case report and literature review
Abstract Anton–Babinski syndrome is a rare disease featuring bilateral cortical blindness and anosognosia with visual confabulation, but without dementia or any memory impairment. It has a unique neuropsychiatric presentation and should be highly suspected in those with odd visual loss and imaging evidence of occipital lobe injury. In the case discussed herein, a 90‐year‐old man presented with bilateral blindness, obvious anosognosia, and vivid visual confabulation, which he had had for 3 days. Brain computed tomography demonstrated recent hypodense infarctions at the bilateral occipital lobes. Thus, the patient was ...
Source: Psychogeriatrics - December 16, 2014 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jiann‐Jy Chen, Hsin‐Feng Chang, Yung‐Chu Hsu, Dem‐Lion Chen Tags: CASE REPORT Source Type: research

A Review of the Mental Health Issues of Diabetes Conference.
Abstract Individuals with type 1 diabetes are at increased risk for depression, anxiety disorder, and eating disorder diagnoses. People with type 1 diabetes are also at risk for subclinical levels of diabetes distress and anxiety. These mental/behavioral health comorbidities of diabetes are associated with poor adherence to treatment and poor glycemic control, thus increasing the risk for serious short- and long-term physical complications, which can result in blindness, amputations, stroke, cognitive decline, decreased quality of life, as well as premature death. When mental health comorbidities of diabetes are n...
Source: Diabetes Care - January 28, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Ducat L, Rubenstein A, Philipson LH, Anderson BJ Tags: Diabetes Care Source Type: research

Teaching NeuroImages: Cortical blindness following acute obstructive hydrocephalus by a colloid cyst
A 46-year-old woman was admitted for acute headache, postseizure confusion, and visual loss. Urgent head CT scan showed obstructive hydrocephalus due to a colloid cyst (figure 1). External ventricular drains inserted emergently demonstrated CSF under pressure, above 40 mm H2O. MRI confirmed the suspected diagnosis of a colloid cyst and highlighted bilateral occipital lobe infarcts (figure 2). CT angiography showed no thrombosis of the posterior cerebral arteries (PCAs). After neurosurgical excision of the colloid cyst, the patient remained blind. The presumed mechanism of infarction was acute compression of the PCAs agains...
Source: Neurology - February 9, 2015 Category: Neurology Authors: Champeaux, C., Grivas, A. Tags: Hydrocephalus, Stroke in young adults, MRI, Clinical neurology examination, Visual loss RESIDENT AND FELLOW SECTION Source Type: research

Chicken pox virus may be linked to serious condition in the elderly
(American Academy of Neurology) A new study links the virus that causes chicken pox and shingles to a condition that inflames blood vessels on the temples and scalp in the elderly, called giant cell arteritis. The study is published in the Feb. 18, 2015, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The condition can cause sudden blindness or stroke and can be life threatening.
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - February 18, 2015 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news

Teaching NeuroImages: Unilateral agenesis of internal carotid artery with ophthalmic artery from opposite side
A 42-year-old man with a 3-day history of gradual left-sided blindness was suspected to have internal carotid artery (ICA) chronic occlusion by magnetic resonance angiography. Catheter angiography showed that the left ICA was totally absent with the ipsilateral ophthalmic artery arising from the right ICA, and the left ICA territory was supplied by the right anterior communicating artery and the left posterior communicating artery (figure, A–C). Absence of the left carotid canal on CT proved the left ICA agenesis (figure, D). The patient was diagnosed with optic neuritis, and eyesight improved after medical treatment.
Source: Neurology - March 2, 2015 Category: Neurology Authors: Zhou, W.-Z., Zhao, L.-B., Liu, S., Shi, H.-B. Tags: All Imaging, All Neuro-ophthalmology, All Cerebrovascular disease/Stroke, Developmental disorders RESIDENT AND FELLOW SECTION Source Type: research

Development and initial validation of a damage index (DIAPS) in patients with thrombotic antiphospholipid syndrome (APS).
CONCLUSION: This study demonstrates content, criterion and construct validity of a new physician-reported instrument to assess the DIAPS. In addition, the DIAPS correlated with the EuroQol. PMID: 25767071 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Lupus - March 11, 2015 Category: Rheumatology Authors: Amigo MC, Goycochea-Robles MV, Espinosa-Cuervo G, Medina G, Barragán-Garfias JA, Vargas A, Jara LJ Tags: Lupus Source Type: research

Giant Cell Arteritis and Takayasu Arteritis: Are they a different spectrum of the same disease?
Publication date: Available online 23 April 2015 Source:Indian Journal of Rheumatology Author(s): Lorraine O'Neill , Cristina Ponte , Jan Sznajd , Anna P. Rodrigues , Benjamin Seeliger , Raashid A. Luqmani Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA) and Takayasu Arteritis (TAK) are the two major forms of large vessel vasculitis (LVV). Traditionally GCA and TAK have been considered as two separate diseases based on a number of differences including age of onset, ethnicity, clinical features and vascular distribution. However, the realisation that large vessel involvement in GCA is more common than previously thought, has prompted the disc...
Source: Indian Journal of Rheumatology - April 24, 2015 Category: Rheumatology Source Type: research

Optimization of Insulin Pump Therapy Based on High Order Run-to-Run Control Scheme
In recent years, there is a clearly rising trend in the incidence of diabetes around the world, according to the statistic of IDF Atlas, there are about 387 million people living with diabetes in 2014 and it will increase to 592 million in 2035[1]. Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disease with hyperglycemia (high blood glucose level), and people with diabetes often feel thirsty, hungry, and excessive urination [2–6]. The chronic hyperglycemia increases the risk of complications, such as heart disease, stroke, blindness, renal failure, and so on [7–10].
Source: Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine - April 28, 2015 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: Jianyong Tuo, Huiling Sun, Dong Shen, Hui Wang, Youqing Wang Source Type: research

Dairy Foods and Dairy Proteins in the Management of Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review of the Clinical Evidence
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a growing public health concern affecting hundreds of millions of people worldwide and costing the global economy hundreds of billions of dollars annually. This chronic disease damages the blood vessels and increases the risk of other cardiometabolic ailments such as cardiovascular disease and stroke. If left unmanaged it can also lead to nerve damage, kidney damage, blindness, and amputation. For the most part, many of these symptoms can be prevented or reduced through simple dietary modifications and proper nutrition. Therefore, identifying relatively inexpensive and easily implementabl...
Source: Advances in Nutrition - May 15, 2015 Category: Nutrition Authors: Pasin, G., Comerford, K. B. Tags: Reviews Source Type: research