Internal Medicine Alert – April 30, 2006
April 30, 2006
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Don't Put Away Those Glucose Monitors: Glycemic Variability May Be Harming Our Diabetic Patients
Glycemic variability may be an independent cause of diabetic complications. Wide fluctuations of blood glucose may not be detected by HbA1c measurement. -
Eat Your Vegetables! Avoid a Stroke?
Increased fruit and vegetable intake, at least 5 servings per day, is associated with a reduced risk of stroke. -
Increased Internet Use for Health Information
A new national survey showed people of all ages increasingly using the Internet for initial health information, but physicians remain the most trusted source to validate their findings. -
Fibromyalgia, Depression, and Sexual Dysfunction
The authors sought to determine the relationship between psychiatric and sexual status of premenopausal women with fibromyalgia compared to a control group of healthy women. -
GERD and Rabeprazole
In contrast to the findings from a recent esomeprazole study, these authors show that on-demand therapy with rabeprazole is a good alternative to continuous treatment. -
Selegiline Transdermal System (Emsam®)
The first transdermal patch has been approved for the treatment of depression. Selegiline is an irreversible monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI)... -
Clinical Briefs By Louis Kuritzky, MD
Appropriate initial treatments for type 2 diabetes (DM2) include a diversity of oral agents and/or insulins. One of the most popular current initial treatments is metformin (MET)...