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Diabetes Spotted at an Earlier Age
Diabetes Spotted at an Earlier Age -- Posted by Gumbo on 02-16-05 05:30
Diabetes Spotted at an Earlier Age
With two-thirds of U.S. adults overweight or obese, the number of people
with Type 2 diabetes continues to rise and the age at the time of diagnosis
is dropping, a new study finds.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the average age of an adult diagnosed
with Type 2 diabetes was 52, but now people are being diagnosed in their
mid-40s.
This striking drop in age may mean that screening for the disease should
begin earlier than is currently recommended, researchers from the Medical
University of South Carolina said in their report. The researchers found
that the average age at diagnosis has decreased from 52 to 46 years.
The report appears in the January-February issue of the Annals of Family
Medicine.
Surgery less likely for blacks with cancer of the esophagus
African Americans with esophageal cancer are half as likely as whites to be
seen by a surgeon and to receive life-prolonging surgery, a new study shows.
The study, which examined racial disparities in access to surgical
evaluation, receipt of surgery and survival among older patients with
esophageal cancer, found that only 25 percent of African-American patients
received potentially curative surgery, compared with 46 percent of white
patients.
The study appears in the Jan. 20 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Medicine maneuver
If your child tends to spit out medicine, try this trick from Parents
magazine:
Whenever you give a child liquid medication in a dropper, blow in the
child's face. That somehow elicits a reaction that makes him or her swallow.
3 drugs frowned on by FDA found helpful to diabetics
Three drugs that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says should not be
prescribed for diabetics who have heart failure may actually help many of
those patients, a new study suggests.
The drugs are Actos and Avandia, both classified as thiazolidinediones, and
Glucophage, a member of a different chemical family. All are prescribed to
help control blood sugar levels in people with type 2 diabetes, the kind
that typically strikes in adulthood. They act by making the body more
sensitive to insulin, the hormone that helps cells use blood sugar for
energy.
The FDA cautions against using Actos and Avandia in people with advanced
heart failure, and the agency requires a warning against prescribing
Glucophage for patients with heart failure that requires drug treatment.
Nevertheless, many doctors prescribe these drugs for these high-risk
patients, says study author Dr. Frederick Masoudi, a professor of medicine
at the University of Colorado. His study of more than 16,000 diabetes
patients hospitalized for heart failure found a lower death rate over the
following year for those who got one or another of the drugs than for those
who didn't.
The findings appear in today's issue of Circulation.
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