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Diabetes Can Cause Cardiology Complications
Living with diabetes can be challenging by itself. However, if people with type 2 diabetes don’t manage their conditions, they could develop heart disease. In fact, the numbers are frightening. Heart disease and strokes are the number one killers of people with type 2 diabetes. Both are responsible for the about 65 percent of the deaths of people with diabetes. According to the American Heart Association, those with diabetes are two to four times more likely … Read entire article »
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Health Awareness Observances for the Month of November
Did you know that 5.4 million Americans live with Alzheimer’s disease, and that 8.3 percent of the population has diabetes? Or that more people die from lung cancer than of breast, colon and prostate cancer combined? You can learn more about these statistics by celebrating the following health observances in the month of November: Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month On October 5, 2011 Apple visionary Steve Jobs passed away after a seven-year battle with pancreatic cancer. Pancreatic cancer, … Read entire article »
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Living Better with Diabetes
Diabetes is a serious medical condition that is affecting more and more Americans. The latest estimates show that over 100 million of us – nearly one in three – have diabetes or prediabetes. When diabetic patients don’t control their disease, it can lead to complications like blindness, kidney failure and the need for limb amputation. However, these things are all preventable when patients take care of themselves. For the newly diagnosed person, learning how to live … Read entire article »
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What is Prediabetes?
November 1-7 is National Diabetes Education Week. The week promotes informing people about diabetes management and recognizing health care providers as diabetes educators. Most of us are informed of what diabetes is, but do you know about prediabetes? A few weeks ago the Diabetes Resource Center at Sinai offered an informative class on prediabetes, which affects 30% of the U.S. population. In fact, 79 million Americans are diagnosed with prediabetes, and 7 million still go undiagnosed … Read entire article »
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Team Sinai Raises Money for Step Out: Walk to Stop Diabetes
While many of us were sleeping in on a recent Saturday morning, members of Team Sinai were putting their best foot forward at the American Diabetes Association’s annual Step Out: Walk to Stop Diabetes. The Baltimore event was held on October 6 at the Inner Harbor, and in a wonderful show of strength 27 people made up Team Sinai. They were not only LifeBridge Health employees, but their family members and friends as well. Take a look … Read entire article »
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Join Sinai for the Step Out Walk to Stop Diabetes on October 6
Get ready to lace up your sneakers put your best foot forward at the American Diabetes Association’s annual Step Out Walk to Stop Diabetes on Saturday, October 6. In Baltimore, registration kicks off at 8 a.m. and the event starts at 9:30 a.m. at Rash Field at the Inner Harbor. This is wonderful way to help fund research to prevent, manage and cure this disease, which affects nearly 26 million people in the United States.* It’s … Read entire article »
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Tips for Being a Diabetic Foodie
With the rise in superstardom for chefs and televised food connoisseurs, reality food shows like ”Gourmet’s Diary of a Foodie,” ”Iron Chef,” ”Chopped” and ”No Reservations” have replaced traditional sitcoms and dramas as celebrated primetime television viewing in millions of homes across America. According to a 2010 Harris Interactive poll, half of Americans watch food or cooking shows “very often” or “occasionally.” But as our cultural obsession with gourmet and foodie television shows deepens, our collective health worsens. The number of … Read entire article »
Can Diabetes Affect Your Feet?
Neil M. Scheffler, D.P.M., a podiatrist at LifeBridge Health, talks about an important issue for those with diabetes: foot health. He discusses how diabetes can affect the feet and the ways people with this condition can keep their feet healthy. To schedule an appointment with one of our highly trained physicians and find out why LifeBridge Health is Baltimore's premiere health care organization, call 410-601-WELL. About Noel LloydNoel Lloyd is a communications coordinator with LifeBridge Health. … Read entire article »
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Northwest Hospital Earns American Diabetes Association Recognition
The American Diabetes Association recently awarded the Diabetes & Nutrition Center at Northwest Hospital an Education Recognition Certificate upon determining that the center meets their high national standards for diabetes self-management education. “This prestigious honor means that the American Diabetes Association recognizes that our certified diabetic educators are highly effective at training their patients to manage their disease,” says Brian White, president and COO of Northwest Hospital. “We’re proud that the members of our community with diabetes … Read entire article »
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November is American Diabetes Month – Learn More at the Diabetes Resource Center at Sinai
More than 25 million people in the United States live with diabetes. If they don’t take care of themselves, they are at risk for blindness, heart disease, stroke, limb amputation, nerve damage and kidney failure. November is American Diabetes Month. If you have Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, don’t wait until you are in trouble; take the necessary time to educate yourself now and, in turn, save anguish later. The Diabetes Resource Center at Sinai … Read entire article »
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Benefits of Minimally Invasive Surgery for People with Diabetes
Minimally invasive surgery is surgery that involves less incisions, less pain and less blood loss. Doctors are able to accomplish the same goals as they would with traditional open surgery while patients experience fewer complications and have a faster recovery. “Benefits of Minimally Invasive Surgery for People with Diabetes” will be presented by Peter Geis, M.D., Chief of Minimally Invasive Surgery at Northwest Hospital‘s Education Center, on May 10 from 6:30 to 7:45 p.m. Pre-registration is required. Call 410-601-9355. To schedule an appointment with one of our highly trained physicians and find out why LifeBridge Health is Baltimore's premiere health care organization, call 410-601-WELL. About More Posts (409) Print this entry … Read entire article »
Choosing Healthy Drink Options
by Jason Bosley-Smith, CSCS, Live Well @ LifeBridge Did you know that a 20-ounce soda has about 17 teaspoons of sugar and over 200 calories? While many of us focus on food when we think of controlling calories, how often do we stop and think about our drinks? Empty calories and high doses of sugar are found in many drink options, stifling our goals of healthy weight maintenance. Poor drink choices are ones that contain a lot of extra calories without very many vitamins and minerals. Choosing these types of drinks regularly can keep you from maintaining a healthy weight. Beware of sport drinks, sodas and fruit-flavored beverages. These types of drinks contain large amounts of added sugar and are packed with calories without many nutrients. Diet sodas are also problematic as … Read entire article »
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Learning About Your Diabetes Risk
By Jamie Strauss, R.D., L.D.N., Clinical Dietitian, Sinai Hospital How many people do you know have diabetes? How many of those people that have diabetes knew they were at risk? And how many people are walking around undiagnosed? November is American Diabetes Month. It is as a time for the American Diabetes Association to communicate and promote awareness of the seriousness and importance of diabetes prevention and control. Here are some diabetes statistics from the ADA: • 7.8 percent of the United States’ population has diabetes, which means 23.6 million children and adults • 17.9 million people are diagnosed • 5.7 million people are undiagnosed • 57 million people have pre-diabetes • Diabetes was the seventh leading cause of death listed on U.S. death certificates in 2006 • Adults with diabetes have heart disease death rates about 2 to … Read entire article »
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Monitoring and Managing Diabetes and High Blood Pressure
People with diabetes should have their blood pressure monitored and managed aggressively, a leading nephrologist told a group of Sinai Hospital physicians last week. George Bakris, M.D. presented on “Updates in Treatment Goals for the Diabetic Hypertensive” at Sinai Hospital’s Grand Rounds. Dr. Bakris is the Director of Hypertension Center and a professor at the University of Chicago Medical Center. The presentation was dedicated to the numerous accomplishments of longtime Sinai Hospital physician Leon Kassel, M.D. There is a significant increase in mortality rates for patients in a hospital who have both diabetes and hypertension. Untreated high blood pressure increases the likelihood of a heart attack or stroke. That’s one of the reasons why physicians need to get patients’ blood pressure controlled, which can be accomplished through medication, Dr. Bakris says. According to … Read entire article »
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Know Your Risk Factors for Diabetes
Would you like to delay or prevent diabetes if you could? Would you like to prevent possible severe diabetes-related complications, including loss of sight or limbs? Millions of Americans are at risk for developing type 2 diabetes, according to the American Diabetes Association (ADA). It’s up to you to take action. The ADA has designated tomorrow as “American Diabetes Association Alert Day.” That should be the day people stop putting off knowing their risk for type 2 diabetes and take the ADA’s easy online assessment. Type 2 diabetes also is known as “adult onset diabetes” to distinguish it from type 1, or “juvenile” diabetes. However, the obesity rates for children have skyrocketed and type 2 diabetes is now being diagnosed in people at younger ages. Sometimes you might hear people refer to diabetes as … Read entire article »
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Sinai’s Diabetes Resource Center Earns Recognition
Diabetes causes more deaths a year than breast cancer and AIDS combined, a sobering fact from the American Diabetes Association (ADA), which stresses the importance of living a healthy lifestyle and educating patients with diabetes and their families. Consistent with national standards to provide high quality self-management education to people with diabetes, the Diabetes Resource Center at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore recently received the ADA’s prestigious Education Recognition Certificate. The ADA awards certification only to programs that meet the strict criteria developed through its National Standards for Diabetes Self-Management Programs, which assure people that they are getting the best care. In order to merit this distinction, programs must cover a wide range of topics, including everything from the disease process, nutritional management, goal setting, problem solving and psychological adjustments to preventing diabetic complications, … Read entire article »
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Diabetes Resource Center Offers Education and Management Tools
What do Sonia Sotomayor, Bret Michaels and Nick Jonas have in common? Diabetes. They are among the 23.6 million children and adults in the United States, or 7.8 percent of the population, who have diabetes. In Maryland, the rate of diabetes has grown over the past 10 years, from 6 percent of adults in 1998 to 7.9 percent of adults in 2006. By the end of 2007, there were 358,000 adults with the disease in the state, according to the state Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. In Maryland it is estimated there is another undiagnosed group of 143,000 adults. Luckily, the Diabetes Resource Center at Sinai works with patients with diabetes by promoting healthy behavior for an improved quality of life. The center recently completed its application for certification by the … Read entire article »
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Spotlight on The Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism
Endocrinology is an ever-evolving field, and the Division of Endocrinology at LifeBridge Health (LBH) is very busy keeping up! However, with the help of the LBH Clinical Research Support Unit based in the Department of Research, this small but dynamic group now has a rapidly expanding clinical research program. Endocrinology has a diverse and unique group of physicians, each with a keen interest in research. They have a team approach to their clinical research program, and when possible, all faculty participate as coinvestigators on each study protocol. Henry Fein, M.D., has conducted research in the areas of obesity, diabetes, pituitary disorders and thyroid diseases, and is currently a member of LBH’s Administrative Review Board (ARB). Dr. Fein is the Principal Investigator (PI) for the Thyroid Cancer Treatment Registry, and is the PI … Read entire article »
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Diabetes Resource Center Debuts at Sinai Hospital
Diabetes may be a manageable disease, but patients often develop complications stemming from a lack of education and too little communication with their physician. This is why experts say it’s time for a new approach to diabetes care that focuses as much on the patient’s psyche as it does on the physical ramifications of the disease. “One-third of patients have a fear of injections, and physicians have not acknowledged that fact,” says Sally Pinkstaff., M.D., Ph.D., the medical director of the Diabetes Resource Center at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore. In addition to addressing the fear about regular injections, staff members at the center acknowledge the constant maintenance required in controlling diabetes. By taking into consideration a patient’s feelings and daily lifestyle, the center is re-inventing diabetes management. Dr. Pinkstaff recalled a recent visit … Read entire article »
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