MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'hba1c'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:48:54 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3200407&cid=t_107947_87_f&fid=34935&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedicine.com.my%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D8241 HbA1c May Be Useful for Diabetes Screening, Diagnosis in Routine Clinical Practice January 22, 2010 — Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) may be useful for diabetes screening and diagnosis in routine clinical practice, according to the results of a study reported online in the January 12 issue of Diabetes Care. Read more The use of HbA1c for diagnosis was once deemed wrong. However, it is now suggested that HbA1c is gaining credence as a diagnostic and screening tool, apart from its usual purpose of monitoring control of diabetes. If widely accepted, it is set to replace the cumbersome oral glucose tolerance test which is certainly more labour intensive and uncomfortable for the patient. Will the OGTT test remain relevant in the years to come? Perhaps its relevance will remain in patients with gesta... Malaysian Medical Resources blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3200407 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3200407 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1432575&cid=t_107947_134_f&fid=35152&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsstrumello.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F05%2Fanother-argument-for-conservation-of.html New research continues to demonstrate that our creator, science or evolution (depending on your perspective, naturally) knew what it was doing when it came to insulin. The hormone works almost the same way in all animal life, and differs very little between species. In fact, very recently, scientists at The Salk Institute in San Diego have managed to prove that the humble fruitfly also relies on the same insulin-regulated molecular pathway to maintain its energy balance. The journal Cell Metabolism recently documented this discovery:Biao Wang, Jason Goode, Jennifer Best, Jodi Meltzer, Pablo E. Schilman, Jian Chen, Dan Garza, John B. Thomas, and Marc Montminy; "The Insulin-Regulated CREB Coactivator TORC Promotes Stress Resistance in Drosophila"; Cell Metabolism, Vol 7, 434-444, 07 May 2008... Scott's Web Log blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1432575 Fri, 09 May 2008 15:10:00 +0100 1432575 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1100251&cid=t_107947_134_f&fid=36049&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FDiabetesNotes%2F%7E3%2F201771885%2F Ch-ch-ch-changes… I really dislike when I read that how we have been doing what we have done for years, it is now not how it should be done! Are you following me? We all know as diabetics we prick our lil’ ol’ fingers and make sure that we keep our blood sugar levels within “normal” limits approximately 4 times a day. The typical, and I say typical because I know that every diabetic is different, is to check our blood glucose in the morning before breakfast, before we eat our lunch, before we eat our dinner and then once before we turn in for the night. Due to some new research and a report titled “Guideline for management of Postmeal Glucose” that was carried out for The International Diabetes Federation we may need to be pricking our fingers even... Diabetes Notes blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1100251 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:35:14 +0100 1100251 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=764995&cid=t_107947_87_f&fid=34867&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thediabetesblog.com%2F2007%2F07%2F29%2Ffor-heart-health-type-1-kids-must-move%2F Filed under: Type 1, Childhood, Lifestyle, Research, Exercise, ComplicationsA new report says physical activity is critical for kids with type 1 diabetes because it helps prevent heart trouble later in life. The German and Austrian researchers behind the study reached this conclusion after crunching the numbers for more than 23,000 kids between ages three and eighteen, comparing their health with activity levels. As you would expect, the most active kids had the healthiest hearts and lower levels of cholesterol and triglycerides. By comparison, thirty-six percent of children who were active only once or twice a week had high cholesterol and triglycerides. For type 1 kids, activity levels relate to HbA1c levels: fit children had lower HbA1c levels. High HbA1c levels in childhood practically... The Diabetes Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=764995 Sun, 29 Jul 2007 04:00:00 +0100 764995