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Welcome to “Diabetes in the News”. This feature has links to diabetes related news stories, blogs, or websites. If you come upon a story, blog or website that I haven’t mentioned, e-mail me at joscafe.com at gmail.com. I will check it out and if posted, give credit where credit is due.

Medical ID, USB Medi Alert
Computer junkies with a medical history that needs to go with them click above.  I’m going to get one for myself.  (HT: Diabetes Mine)

New study may advance treatments to prevent type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome
“Patients with the metabolic syndrome have high levels of both glucose and lipids in the blood. We now understand that insulin that controls the pathways that control glucose levels are different from those that regulate lipid levels. By targeting these specific pathways, we might be able to improve problems with glucose metabolism, lipid metabolism or both,” says Dr. Kahn, President of Joslin Diabetes Center and Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Carotenoids may lower diabetes risk in nonsmokers
Carotenoids — plant-derived antioxidants found in vegetables such as carrots, tomatoes and spinach — may reduce the risk of diabetes by cutting oxidative stress, the authors of the study explain in the American Journal of Epidemiology. Likewise, high levels of carotenoids may help reduce the oxidative stress caused by cigarette smoking.

First American with Diabetes to Climb Highest Peak on Earth
KATMANDU, Nepal, May 23  — Will Cross today became the first American with diabetes to summit Mount Everest, the highest point on earth on which a human can walk without supplemental oxygen. With this achievement, Cross, a 39-year-old father of six from Pittsburgh sponsored by NovoLog(R) (insulin aspart [rDNA origin] injection), became the first American — and the first in the world with diabetes — to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents and trek to the North and South Poles, a multi-year odyssey known as the NovoLog(R) Peaks and Poles Challenge. He reached the summit at approximately 5:10 a.m. local time.

Blacks With Diabetes Are Under-Diagnosed for Obesity
Obesity is under-diagnosed in people with diabetes overall and especially in African-Americans, even though both conditions are more prevalent in African-Americans than whites, a new study finds.  The data were gleaned from a community health study conducted in Charleston, S.C., part of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Healthy People 2010, a large-scale initiative to track and improve the health of people in the United States.

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