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Contact lenses purchased over Internet may place
individuals at risk for harmful eyecare practices
Exercise Key In Control Of Type 2 Diabetes
Researchers found that when they combined the results from 103
studies, there was clear evidence that lifestyle changes helped
people with type 2 diabetes gain better control over their blood sugar.
While diet, exercise and medication are all vital to diabetes
management, exercise alone was effective in these studies. In fact,
the review found, studies that focused only on boosting exercise
levels yielded greater benefits than those that tried to change patients'
diets, exercise habits and medication adherence all at once. The
findings "could mean that it is easier for people to focus on one thing
at a time," lead study author Dr. Vicki Conn said in a statement. "It is
easy for people to get overwhelmed when asked to make too many
changes." Dr. Conn and her colleagues at the University of
Missouri-Columbia report the findings in the May 2007 journal
Diabetologia . For their study, the researchers combined the results of
103 studies that involved a total of 10,455 adults with type 2 diabetes,
a disorder in which the body cannot properly use the
blood-sugar-regulating hormone insulin. Dr. Conn's team found that
blood sugar improvements were twice as great in studies that
focused on exercise alone than in those that tried to improve diet,
exercise and medication adherence. The researchers also point out
that exercise helped study participants regardless of their weight or
how poor their blood sugar control had been in the past.
Canadian Researchers Break Ground Unlocking
Mysteries Of Glaucoma In One Of World's Largest
Studies Of Disease
The world community of glaucoma researchers and 67 million people
with this devastating eye disease worldwide can expect to benefit from
a groundbreaking CNIB-funded study released. More than 15 years in
the making, the Canadian Glaucoma Study positively identified, for the
first time, several risk factors predicting the progression of this little
understood disease.
"The results provide a gold mine of data that is unparalleled in the
field," said Dr. Balwantray Chauhan, the study's principal investigator,
and chair of vision research at Dalhousie University's Faculty of
Medicine. "It's very exciting, and it's going to open the door for much
more targeted research that will help us understand this disease." Dr.
Chauhan presented the study's results at the Canadian
Ophthalmological Society (COS) conference in Montreal.
Open-angle glaucoma involves damage to the eye's optic nerve, often
characterized by high intraocular pressure (IOP). The disease often
progresses over many years, and many people do not realize they
have it until vision loss is permanent and untreatable. Until now,
scientists knew little about why some patients develop the disease
faster than others after IOP is taken into account. The Canadian
Glaucoma Study looked at multiple, controlled factors, and found four
of highest significance:
-- Anticardiolipin antibodies: Patients who had an antibody,
associated with thrombosis (clotting in the circulatory system) or
autoimmune disease, were four times more likely to progress in the
disease. This had never before been considered as a possible risk
factor, and will require further study.
-- Gender: Women were twice as likely as men to progress in the
disease.
-- Age: For every year someone ages, their chance of progressing
increases by 4%, confirming that open-angle glaucoma is primarily
age-related.
-- IOP: Even though the study controlled for IOP, it still emerged as a
major factor in the progression of glaucoma - making it even more
significant than previously imagined. The study showed that for every
mmHg of increased IOP, the risk of progression increases by an
astonishing 20%.
Significantly, the study also ruled out several factors previously
thought to be important, concluding that people with diabetes,
hypertension and a history of cardiovascular disease were not more
likely to than others to progress if they had glaucoma.
Contact lenses purchased over Internet may place
individuals at risk for harmful eyecare practices
Exercise Key In Control Of Type 2 Diabetes
Researchers found that when they combined the results from 103
studies, there was clear evidence that lifestyle changes helped
people with type 2 diabetes gain better control over their blood sugar.
While diet, exercise and medication are all vital to diabetes
management, exercise alone was effective in these studies. In fact,
the review found, studies that focused only on boosting exercise
levels yielded greater benefits than those that tried to change patients'
diets, exercise habits and medication adherence all at once. The
findings "could mean that it is easier for people to focus on one thing
at a time," lead study author Dr. Vicki Conn said in a statement. "It is
easy for people to get overwhelmed when asked to make too many
changes." Dr. Conn and her colleagues at the University of
Missouri-Columbia report the findings in the May 2007 journal
Diabetologia . For their study, the researchers combined the results of
103 studies that involved a total of 10,455 adults with type 2 diabetes,
a disorder in which the body cannot properly use the
blood-sugar-regulating hormone insulin. Dr. Conn's team found that
blood sugar improvements were twice as great in studies that
focused on exercise alone than in those that tried to improve diet,
exercise and medication adherence. The researchers also point out
that exercise helped study participants regardless of their weight or
how poor their blood sugar control had been in the past.
Canadian Researchers Break Ground Unlocking
Mysteries Of Glaucoma In One Of World's Largest
Studies Of Disease
The world community of glaucoma researchers and 67 million people
with this devastating eye disease worldwide can expect to benefit from
a groundbreaking CNIB-funded study released. More than 15 years in
the making, the Canadian Glaucoma Study positively identified, for the
first time, several risk factors predicting the progression of this little
understood disease.
"The results provide a gold mine of data that is unparalleled in the
field," said Dr. Balwantray Chauhan, the study's principal investigator,
and chair of vision research at Dalhousie University's Faculty of
Medicine. "It's very exciting, and it's going to open the door for much
more targeted research that will help us understand this disease." Dr.
Chauhan presented the study's results at the Canadian
Ophthalmological Society (COS) conference in Montreal.
Open-angle glaucoma involves damage to the eye's optic nerve, often
characterized by high intraocular pressure (IOP). The disease often
progresses over many years, and many people do not realize they
have it until vision loss is permanent and untreatable. Until now,
scientists knew little about why some patients develop the disease
faster than others after IOP is taken into account. The Canadian
Glaucoma Study looked at multiple, controlled factors, and found four
of highest significance:
-- Anticardiolipin antibodies: Patients who had an antibody,
associated with thrombosis (clotting in the circulatory system) or
autoimmune disease, were four times more likely to progress in the
disease. This had never before been considered as a possible risk
factor, and will require further study.
-- Gender: Women were twice as likely as men to progress in the
disease.
-- Age: For every year someone ages, their chance of progressing
increases by 4%, confirming that open-angle glaucoma is primarily
age-related.
-- IOP: Even though the study controlled for IOP, it still emerged as a
major factor in the progression of glaucoma - making it even more
significant than previously imagined. The study showed that for every
mmHg of increased IOP, the risk of progression increases by an
astonishing 20%.
Significantly, the study also ruled out several factors previously
thought to be important, concluding that people with diabetes,
hypertension and a history of cardiovascular disease were not more
likely to than others to progress if they had glaucoma.
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