Posted on August 4th, 2007
Today the American Diabetes Association (ADA) officially launched its 12-week training program for “Step Up to Fight Diabetes,” an event in which participants walk a 10-mile route and climb the 25 staircases they pass along the way.
More than 21 million Americans currently have diabetes, which is the fastest-growing disease in America.
The Step Up to Fight Diabetes event seeks to decrease diabetes’ drastically growing numbers through diabetes awareness, information and advocacy, and to challenge individuals to commit to improving the dire state of diabetes.
For more information or to register for Step Up to Fight Diabetes, visit http://www.diabetes.org/stepup
Posted on May 10th, 2007
To determine whether the effect of diabetes on outcomes and the sex-related variation persisted in a propensity score matched HF population, and whether the sex-related variation was a function of age.
Of the 7788 HF patients in the Digitalis Investigation Group trial, 2218 had a history of diabetes. Propensity score for diabetes was calculated for each patient using a non-parsimonious logistic regression model incorporating all measured baseline covariates, and was used to match 2056 (93%) diabetic patients with 2056 non-diabetic patients.
Diabetes-associated increases in morbidity and mortality in chronic HF were more pronounced in women, and theses sex-related differences in outcomes were primarily observed in elderly patients.
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Original article – http://heart.bmj.com
