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AskMen.com April 29, 2001 Joshua Levine	Do You Have Diabetes? Diabetes is not contagious; people cannot "catch" it from one another. However, certain factors can increase one's risk of developing the disease...
AskMen.com Alex Santoso	What You Should Know About Diabetes Not many men understand what diabetes is, why it's very bad for them (it is one of the leading causes of impotence), what they can do to avoid getting it or how to treat it.
American Family Physician October 15, 2003 Gavin et al.	Reducing Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes By increasing patient awareness of the link between diabetes and heart disease, family physicians can encourage patients to take medications (including aspirin), stop smoking, lower blood pressure, and lower cholesterol and blood glucose levels.
American Family Physician September 15, 2006 Havas & Donner	Tight Control of Type 1 Diabetes: Recommendations for Patients Physicians play an important role in helping type 1 diabetes patients make essential lifestyle changes to help reduce the risk of microvascular and macrovascular complications.
American Family Physician April 15, 2004 Rao, Disraeli & Mcgregor	Impaired Glucose Tolerance and Impaired Fasting Glucose Impaired glucose tolerance and impaired fasting glucose form an intermediate stage in the natural history of diabetes mellitus.
American Family Physician November 1, 2000	Diabetes: How Do I Know if I Have it? Diabetes is a disease that occurs when your body doesn't make enough of a hormone called insulin, or if your body doesn't use insulin the right way. If left untreated, it may result in blindness, heart attacks, strokes, kidney failure and amputations...
American Family Physician October 1, 2002 Konzem et al.	Controlling Hypertension in Patients with Diabetes Hypertension and diabetes mellitus are common diseases in the United States. Patients with diabetes have a much higher rate of hypertension than would be expected in the general population. Regardless of the antihypertensive agent used, a reduction in blood pressure helps to prevent diabetic complications.
Nursing September 2010 Margaret M. Bolton	Sounding the alarm about metabolic syndrome Any health problem that affects a third of American adults is sure to impact your nursing practice. Metabolic syndrome, a growing and commonly silent condition, poses a significant public health crisis.
American Family Physician December 15, 2000 Alan J. Garber	Attenuating Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes All cardiovascular risk factors except smoking are more prevalent in patients with type 2 diabetes. In addition to exercise, weight control, aspirin therapy and blood pressure control, therapy to modify lipid profiles is usually necessary...
Managed Care May 2006 Fadia T. Shaya & Deshpande	New Treatment Approaches To Diabetes The goal of diabetes management is maintaining glycemic control while targeting quality of life improvements.
Managed Care May 2007 Rachel M. Renshaw	Keys to Diabetes Control? Patience, Persistence, and Perseverance Careful attention to a comprehensive treatment plan could forestall or prevent the need to add drugs and costs to a patient's regimen.
American Family Physician March 15, 2001 Goutham Rao	Insulin Resistance Syndrome Insulin resistance can be linked to diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, cardiovascular disease and other abnormalities. Because resistance usually develops long before these diseases appear, identifying and treating insulin-resistant patients has potentially great preventive value...
American Family Physician June 15, 2005 Hanna & Wenger	Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease in Elderly Patients A review of the scientific evidence for the secondary prevention of coronary heart disease in the elderly.
American Family Physician September 1, 2003 Magill et al.	New Developments in the Management of Hypertension Advances in the management of hypertension have refined our understanding of systolic blood pressure, nutrition, medication selection, and hypertension in special populations.
American Family Physician April 15, 2004	Taking Steps to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes Information on type 2 diabetes: detection, who is at risk, and prevention.
American Family Physician June 15, 2004 Darwin Deen	Metabolic Syndrome: Time for Action Family physicians can be more effective in helping patients to change their lifestyle behaviors by assessing each patient for the presence of specific risk factors, clearly communicating these risk factors to patients, identifying appropriate interventions to address specific risks, and assisting patients in identifying barriers to behavior change.
American Family Physician November 1, 2003 Turok et al.	Management of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Although the disorder affects approximately 2.5 percent of pregnant women and has been the subject of extensive research, its diagnosis and management continue to be debated.
Nursing May 2010 Debra Castner	Understanding the stages of chronic kidney disease This article will help you to recognize CKD and understand its stages so you can help your patient to modify risk factors, prevent further kidney damage, and manage complications. First, consider the scope of the problem.
Nurse Practitioner May 2011 Stacey A. Seggelke	Hitting the target for inpatient glycemic management An understanding of glycemic treatment options for hospitalized patients is essential for good patient outcomes.
American Family Physician January 15, 2004 Koenigsberg et al.	Facilitating Treatment Adherence with Lifestyle Changes in Diabetes Healthy eating and increased physical activity can prevent or delay diabetes and its complications. Techniques that facilitate adherence to these lifestyle changes can be adapted to primary care.
American Family Physician May 1, 2001	Treatment Options for Type 2 Diabetes -- What's Available? What are the different steps in managing my diabetes? What are the different types of medicines used to treat type 2 diabetes and how do they work?
Nursing November 2009 Christine Kessler	Glycemic control in the hospital: How tight should it be? Based on recent studies, the answer to that question remains controversial. This article will explore this issue and present current best practices for caring for a patient in the hospital who has diabetes or hyperglycemia.
American Family Physician December 15, 2000	You Have Diabetes--But You Don't Have to Get Heart Disease Too People with diabetes are more likely to get heart disease because diabetes can have a bad effect on your blood vessels. Some of your lifestyle habits may also raise this risk. Here are some things you can do about your lifestyle habits...
American Family Physician July 1, 2005 Micah L. Thorp	Diabetic Nephropathy: Common Questions Diabetic nephropathy, or diabetic kidney disease, affects 20% - 30% of patients with diabetes. This article addresses some of the common questions raised by physicians managing patients with this disease.
American Family Physician November 15, 2004 Snively & Gutierrez	Chronic Kidney Disease: Prevention and Treatment of Common Complications Family physicians have the opportunity to screen at-risk patients, identify affected patients, and ameliorate the impact of chronic kidney disease by initiating early therapy and monitoring disease progression.
Managed Care March 2001	A Comparison of Diabetes Patients' Self-Reported Health Status With Hemoglobin A1c Test Results There were substantive differences noted between diabetes patients' self-reported health status, their level of satisfaction with the care they received, and the actual care they received...
Nursing Management August 2008 Jill R. Quinn	Women and Heart Disease: An Update A look at statistics regarding coronary heart disease in women as well as related risk factors and prevention.
American Family Physician July 15, 2000 Ethan M. Berke & Nancy E. Morden	Medical Management of Obesity Family physicians must treat any conditions associated with obesity while working with patients on methods to achieve and maintain weight loss...
Nurse Practitioner October 2010 Hill & Appel	Diagnosing Diabetes with A1C: Implications and Considerations for Measurement and Surrogate Markers Now that the ADA has officially positioned the assay as a means of diagnosis and monitoring, it is another tool NPs must access properly when helping patients manage diabetes and treatment.
Nurse Practitioner February 2012 Wood & Gordon	Preventing CVD in women: The NP's role This article focuses on the new American Heart Association guidelines for preventing cardiovascular disease in women and the nurse practitioner's role in implementing them.
American Family Physician October 15, 2000 Matthew Neff	Conference Highlights Lifestyle Modifications Can Prevent Onset of Type 2 Diabetes... Efficacy of Metformin Is Similar in Children and Adults... Glycemic Control Improves Quality of Life in Patients with Diabetes... Test Strip Proves Effective, Less Painful Alternative to Fingerstick...
Nurse Practitioner November 2011 Tracy Brazziel et al.	Stopping the Wave of PAD Early detection and diagnosis of atherosclerotic disease is imperative. Here, learn the risk factors, screening and diagnosis for this disease.
American Journal of Nursing October 2005 Charlotte Thomas-Hawkins	Self-Management of Chronic Kidney Disease Effective management of this disease requires the patient to be the principal illness manager and this skill requires the nurses guidance and support.
Managed Care May 2006 Martin Sipkoff	Health Plans Are Ill-Prepared for Looming Diabetes Epidemic The problem is outpacing insurers' resources and perhaps even their commitment. Can the chronic care model help?
American Family Physician January 1, 2003 Jennifer B. Marks	Perioperative Management of Diabetes Diabetic patients who require surgery present special challenges in perioperative management. Special attention must be paid to prevention and treatment of metabolic derangements.
American Family Physician August 1, 2002 Mark W. Niedfeldt	Managing Hypertension in Athletes and Physically Active Patients Athletes and other physically active patients should be screened for hypertension and given appropriate therapy if needed.
American Family Physician May 1, 2001 Beatriz Luna & Mark N. Feinglos	Oral Agents in the Management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Currently, there are five distinct classes of hypoglycemic agents available, each class displaying unique pharmacologic properties...
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2005	Changing Diabetes An interview with Novo Nordisk's president of U.S. operations Martin Soeters on how a nation that leads the world in diabetes research does such a poor job of treating it. Here, he offers some solutions.
HBS Working Knowledge November 17, 2003 Martha Lagace	The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management Diabetes is a tough disease to tackle. A case-study discussion led by Harvard professor Nancy Beaulieu asked why it is so complex for business and society, and what might be done to curb its incidence.
Managed Care November 2005 Thomas Morrow	This Nutritional Supplement Might be an Inexpensive Way to Improve Glycemic Control for the 18 Million Americans with Diabetes The review of the existing literature suggests that chromium picolinate with biotin offers people with diabetes hope for the future at a price that is less than what would be their copayment for a normal monthly generic drug.
American Family Physician May 1, 2005	Diabetic Ketoacidosis: What It Is and How to Prevent It An informative patient hand-out on the condition, its causes, triggers, prevention and instructions on what do if the conditions presents.
AskMen.com Jen Woodward	Men's Health Red Flags There are plenty of men's health red flags that should not be ignored. Read on for some common ailments that often start out as minor issues.
American Family Physician November 1, 2005 Snyder & Pendergraph	Detection and Evaluation of Chronic Kidney Disease Early treatment of chronic kidney disease and its complications may delay or prevent the development of end-stage renal disease. Consequently, detection of chronic kidney disease should be a priority for family physicians.
American Family Physician August 1, 2004 Mayfield & White	Insulin Therapy for Type 2 Diabetes: Rescue, Augmentation, and Replacement of Beta-Cell Function New insulin preparations and a better understanding of insulin physiology provide more options for family physicians attempting to effectively tailor insulin therapy to the needs of individual patients.
American Family Physician September 1, 2004 Johnson et al.	Clinical Practice Guidelines for Chronic Kidney Disease in Adults: Part I. Definition, Disease Stages, Evaluation, Treatment and Risk Factors Family physicians should weigh the value of the National Kidney Foundation guidelines for their clinical practice based on the strength of evidence and perceived cost-effectiveness until additional evidence becomes available on the usefulness of the recommended quality indicators.
The Motley Fool June 28, 2010 Luke Timmerman	Orexigen Drug Shows Potential as "Two-Fer" Against Obesity and Diabetes Orexigen's latest drug aims at treating both diabetes and obesity.
American Family Physician February 1, 2005 Dickerson & Gibson	Management of Hypertension in Older Persons Antihypertensive therapy has been shown to reduce morbidity and mortality in older patients with elevated systolic or diastolic blood pressures.
Nursing August 2008 Carl A. Kirton	Managing Long-Term Complications of HIV Infection Now that advances in treatment have transformed HIV into a chronic, manageable disease, patients are facing cardiovascular and metabolic complications you might not have expected 15 years ago. Here's how to help your patient manage them.
Nursing October 2011 Elizabeth Heavey	Obesity in pregnancy: Deliver sensitive care This article addresses the health risks of obesity to mother and baby during pregnancy, labor, and delivery and discusses what you can do to mitigate those risks.
American Family Physician March 15, 2005 Lockman et al.	Treatment of Cholesterol Abnormalities The relationship between coronary heart disease and elevated cholesterol levels has been recognized for many years, but now studies show an improvement in patient-oriented outcomes in patients receiving drug therapy.