Aspirin Underused by People with Diabetes
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NEW YORK  - Daily aspirin is usually recommended for people at increased risk for heart disease, and people with diabetes come into that category.
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(HealthDay News) -- Aspirin is often recommended by cardiologists for its blood-thinning properties, but the medication can lead to complications, including stomach problems.
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The widely used diabetes pill Actos appears to lower a patient's chances of death, heart attack or stroke, unlike its beleaguered chief rival Avandia, a new analysis shows. However, it also carries an increased risk of nonfatal heart failure, the analysis showed, confirming earlier studies.
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NEW YORK  - There is some evidence that  various types of drugs used to treat high blood pressure could  hasten or impede the development of type 2 diabetes, but the  latest findings don't support that idea.
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TUESDAY, May 29 (HealthDay News) -- An easy-to-follow guide can boost the number of diabetes patients who take their cholesterol-lowering statin medications as prescribed, according to a new Mayo Clinic-led study.
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One in 12 people should be taking a drug to prevent diabetes, researchers estimate.
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BusinessWeek Online - The news last week that GlaxoSmithKline&#39;s  popular diabetes drug Avandia may increase the risk of heart attacks is now causing a rift among doctors by specialty, leading to charges by each side that the other is endangering patients. Endocrinologists, who treat diabetics, tend to regard the data, which was published in The New England Journal of Medicine, with skepticism, pointing to weaknesses in the study, particularly when compared to more rigorous clinical trials. Cardiologists and drug safety experts, foremost among them study author Dr. ...
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The findings may be relevant to many people who take aspirin to prevent heart problems as well as a COX-2 inhibitor drug like Vioxx for arthritis.
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The largest diabetes-prevention study ever done has found that a drug already used to treat the disease can also help keep "pre-diabetics" from developing it. But many experts said losing weight and exercising remain a safer, cheaper approach.
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Obese subjects ate nearly 1,000  fewer calories per day when they injected pramlintide, a drug  approved for the treatment of insulin-dependent diabetes,  before every meal, a new study shows.
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MUNICH - The statin war is hotting up, and the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes in Munich this week is the latest battleground for these cholesterol-lowering drugs.
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Patients given a mix of modern blood   pressure drugs are one-third less likely to develop diabetes   than those on older pills, researchers said on Wednesday.
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Key chemicals that carry cholesterol and fats in the blood accumulate in people with type 2 diabetes, Canadian medical scientists have discovered.  Type 2 diabetes is a condition in which blood sugar is higher than it should be.
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SEATTLE, WASH., October 19, 2004--A Stony Brook University researcher is testing a new form of aspirin--one that is much more potent than its commercially available counterpart, but with almost none of the side effects--to determine whether it can be used
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New research suggests that  obese adults with diabetes often say they eat less than they  actually do -- a problem that can hinder management of the  disease, according to researchers.
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People with diabetes often suffer from chronic and sometimes severe pain, and this can create difficulties for them in the management of their condition and with self-care activities, researchers have found.
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Patients with type 2 diabetes who   have already suffered a first stroke have 47 percent less risk   of having a second one if they take Takeda Pharmaceutical Co.   Ltd's drug Actos, researchers said on Sunday.