This newsletter keeps you up-to-date with new articles, columns, and Web pages that I have written. I list and link most of these on my Diabetes Directory at www.mendosa.com/diabetes.htm
From time to time Diabetes Update may also include links to other Web pages of special interest.
My most recent contribution is:
on March 4, 2002
The UKPDS
A chiropractor who had just been diagnosed with diabetes wrote to ask if he can prevent the complications of diabetes with exercise and weight loss to control his blood glucose. In fact, there's probably no more important question for us with diabetes. For people with type 2 diabetes a research project called the United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study provides the best answers we have. My current "About the Internet" column for the American Diabetes Association's Web site reviews the UKPDS. The URL is
http://www.diabetes.org/main/community/info_news/web/default.jsp
Update:
on March 1, 2002
Sof-Tact Meter
My article about the lag time for alternative site meters reported by two German scientists was disturbing for those of us who much prefer to test our blood glucose on our arm or leg. I much prefer the MediSense Sof-Tact meter.
"Lag Time in AlternativeLand" on my site at http://www.mendosa.com/alternative_lags.htm has been widely reproduced at Children with Diabetes, Diabetes123, Diabetes Monitor, and The JDA Connection, the official publication of the Jewish Diabetes Association.
Now, a new study reported in Diabetes Care concludes that the Sof-Tact meter demonstrated "no significant glucose difference...between the capillary beds of the forearm and fingertip." The abstract of the study, "Whole-Blood Glucose Testing at Alternate Sites," by J. Paul Lock, M.D., of the Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts/Memorial Hospital, Worcester, Massachusetts, et al., is on-line at http://care.diabetesjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/25/2/337
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I send out Diabetes Update about once every two weeks. Previous issues are online:
- Diabetes Update Number 1 of December 10, 2000
- Diabetes Update Number 2 of December 18, 2000
- Diabetes Update Number 3 of January 3, 2001
- Diabetes Update Number 4 of January 17, 2001
- Diabetes Update Number 5 of January 31, 2001
- Diabetes Update Number 6 of February 15, 2001
- Diabetes Update Number 7 of March 1, 2001
- Diabetes Update Number 8 of March 15, 2001
- Diabetes Update Number 9 of March 30, 2001
- Diabetes Update Number 10 of April 2, 2001
- Diabetes Update Number 11 of April 16, 2001
- Diabetes Update Number 12 of May 2, 2001
- Diabetes Update Number 13 of May 15, 2001
- Diabetes Update Number 14 of May 31, 2001
- Diabetes Update Number 15 of June 21, 2001
- Diabetes Update Number 16 of July 2, 2001
- Diabetes Update Number 17 of July 15, 2001
- Diabetes Update Number 18 of August 2, 2001
- Diabetes Update Number 19 of August 15, 2001
- Diabetes Update Number 20 of August 30, 2001
- Diabetes Update Number 21 of September 14, 2001
- Diabetes Update Number 22 of October 1, 2001
- Diabetes Update Number 23 of October 15, 2001
- Diabetes Update Number 24 of October 31, 2001
- Diabetes Update Number 25 of November 15, 2001
- Diabetes Update Number 26 of December 1, 2001
- Diabetes Update Number 27 of December 14, 2001
- Diabetes Update Number 28 of January 4, 2002
- Diabetes Update Number 29 of January 14, 2002
- Diabetes Update Number 30 of January 31, 2002
- Diabetes Update Number 31 of February 19, 2002
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