Table of Contents

• William T. Cefalu,
• David J. Schneider,
• Harold E. Carlson,
• Phyllis Migdal,
• Leonil Gan Lim,
• Meriam P. Izon,
• Anoop Kapoor,
• Audrey Bell-Farrow,
• James G. Terry,
• and Burton E. Sobel

Effect of Combination Glipizide GITS/Metformin on Fibrinolytic and Metabolic Parameters in Poorly Controlled Type 2 Diabetic Subjects

• Axel Haupt,
• Christiana Kausch,
• Dominik Dahl,
• Oliver Bachmann,
• Michael Stumvoll,
• Hans-U. Häring,
• and Stephan Matthaei

Effect of Glimepiride on Insulin-Stimulated Glycogen Synthesis in Cultured Human Skeletal Muscle Cells: A comparison to glibenclamide

• Michiel G. Wulffelé,
• Adriaan Kooy,
• Philippe Lehert,
• Daniel Bets,
• Jeles C. Ogterop,
• Bob Borger van der Burg,
• Ab J.M. Donker,
• and Coen D.A. Stehouwer

Combination of Insulin and Metformin in the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes

• Carola Saloranta,
• Christiane Guitard,
• Eckhard Pecher,
• Pedro de Pablos-Velasco,
• Kaj Lahti,
• Patrick Brunel,
• and Leif Groop

Nateglinide Improves Early Insulin Secretion and Controls Postprandial Glucose Excursions in a Prediabetic Population

• Mary F. Carroll,
• Ahmad Izard,
• Katrina Riboni,
• Mark R. Burge,
• and David S. Schade

Control of Postprandial Hyperglycemia: Optimal use of short-acting insulin secretagogues

• Laurent Meyer,
• Philip Bohme,
• Irene Delbachian,
• Philippe Lehert,
• Nathalie Cugnardey,
• Pierre Drouin,
• and Bruno Guerci

The Benefits of Metformin Therapy During Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion Treatment of Type 1 Diabetic Patients

• Iñigo Sáenz de Tejada,
• Greg Anglin,
• James R. Knight,
• and Jeffrey T. Emmick

Effects of Tadalafil on Erectile Dysfunction in Men With Diabetes

• The Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) Research Group

The Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP): Description of lifestyle intervention

• Elizabeth J. Mayer-Davis,
• Tina Costacou,
• Irena King,
• Daniel J. Zaccaro,
• and Ronny A. Bell

Plasma and Dietary Vitamin E in Relation to Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes: The Insulin Resistance and Atherosclerosis Study (IRAS)

• Susan S. Gilliland,
• Janette S. Carter,
• Betty Skipper,
• and Kelly J. Acton

HbA_1c Levels Among American Indian/Alaska Native Adults

• Michael I. Goran,
• Richard N. Bergman,
• Martha L. Cruz,
• and Richard Watanabe

Insulin Resistance and Associated Compensatory Responses in African-American and Hispanic Children

• Ruth J.F. Loos,
• David I.W. Phillips,
• Robert Fagard,
• Gaston Beunen,
• Catherine Derom,
• Chantal Mathieu,
• Johan Verhaeghe,
• and Robert Vlietinck

The Influence of Maternal BMI and Age in Twin Pregnancies on Insulin Resistance in the Offspring

• Jannet Svensson,
• Bendix Carstensen,
• AnneGrete Mølbak,
• Bjørn Christau,
• Henrik B. Mortensen,
• Jørn Nerup,
• Knut Borch-Johnsen,
• and the Danish Study Group of Diabetes in Childhood (DSBD)

Increased Risk of Childhood Type 1 Diabetes in Children Born After 1985

• Elizabeth A.C. Sellers,
• Barbara Triggs-Raine,
• Cheryl Rockman-Greenberg,
• and Heather J. Dean

The Prevalence of the HNF-1α G319S Mutation in Canadian Aboriginal Youth With Type 2 Diabetes

• Gianluca Perseghin,
• Andrea Caumo,
• Lucia Piceni Sereni,
• Alberto Battezzati,
• and Livio Luzi

Fasting Blood Sample-Based Assessment of Insulin Sensitivity in Kidney-Pancreas-Transplanted Patients

• Teck-Onn Lim,
• Rugayah Bakri,
• Zaki Morad,
• and Maimunah A. Hamid

Bimodality in Blood Glucose Distribution: Is it universal?

• Kyuzi Kamoi,
• Masashi Miyakoshi,
• Satoshi Soda,
• Susumu Kaneko,
• and Osamu Nakagawa

Usefulness of Home Blood Pressure Measurement in the Morning in Type 2 Diabetic Patients

• Patricia Coon and
• Karen Zulkowski

Adherence to American Diabetes Association Standards of Care by Rural Health Care Providers

• David R. Arday,
• Barbara B. Fleming,
• Dana K. Keller,
• Peter W. Pendergrass,
• Robert J. Vaughn,
• James M. Turpin,
• and David A. Nicewander

Variation in Diabetes Care Among States: Do patient characteristics matter?

• J. Todd Coffey,
• Michael Brandle,
• Honghong Zhou,
• Deanna Marriott,
• Ray Burke,
• Bahman P. Tabaei,
• Michael M. Engelgau,
• Robert M. Kaplan,
• and William H. Herman

Valuing Health-Related Quality of Life in Diabetes

• Jeffrey A. Johnson,
• Sumit R. Majumdar,
• Scot H. Simpson,
• and Ellen L. Toth

Decreased Mortality Associated With the Use of Metformin Compared With Sulfonylurea Monotherapy in Type 2 Diabetes

• José Manuel Fernández-Real,
• Georgina Peñarroja,
• Antoni Castro,
• Fernando García-Bragado,
• Abel López-Bermejo,
• and Wifredo Ricart

Blood Letting in High-Ferritin Type 2 Diabetes: Effects on vascular reactivity

• Laurence Kessler,
• Raphael Passemard,
• Jose Oberholzer,
• Pierre Yves Benhamou,
• Pascal Bucher,
• Christian Toso,
• Pierre Meyer,
• Alfred Penfornis,
• Lionel Badet,
• Philippe Wolf,
• Cyrille Colin,
• Philippe Morel,
• and Michel Pinget

Reduction of Blood Glucose Variability in Type 1 Diabetic Patients Treated By Pancreatic Islet Transplantation: Interest of continuous glucose monitoring

• Kirill V. Larin,
• Mohsen S. Eledrisi,
• Massoud Motamedi,
• and Rinat O. Esenaliev

Noninvasive Blood Glucose Monitoring With Optical Coherence Tomography: A pilot study in human subjects

• Carl D. Malchoff,
• Kamal Shoukri,
• Julian I. Landau,
• and Janusz M. Buchert

A Novel Noninvasive Blood Glucose Monitor

• Ayesh D. Perera,
• Christoph Kapitza,
• Leszek Nosek,
• Robert S. Fishman,
• David A. Shapiro,
• Tim Heise,
• and Lutz Heinemann

Absorption and Metabolic Effect of Inhaled Insulin: Intrapatient variability after inhalation via the Aerodose Insulin Inhaler in patients with type 2 diabetes

• Rafael Simó,
• Albert Lecube,
• Laura Sararols,
• José García-Arumí,
• Rosa M. Segura,
• Roser Casamitjana,
• and Cristina Hernández

Deficit of Somatostatin-Like Immunoreactivity in the Vitreous Fluid of Diabetic Patients: Possible role in the development of proliferative diabetic retinopathy

• Amanda Stride,
• Maggie Shepherd,
• Timothy M. Frayling,
• Mike P. Bulman,
• Sian Ellard,
• and Andrew T. Hattersley

Intrauterine Hyperglycemia Is Associated With an Earlier Diagnosis of Diabetes in HNF-1α Gene Mutation Carriers

• Tomasz Klupa,
• James H. Warram,
• Anthony Antonellis,
• Marcus Pezzolesi,
• Moonsuk Nam,
• Maciej T. Malecki,
• Alessandro Doria,
• Stephen S. Rich,
• and Andrzej S. Krolewski

Determinants of the Development of Diabetes (Maturity-Onset Diabetes of the Young-3) in Carriers of HNF-1α Mutations: Evidence for parent-of-origin effect

• Shoichiro Tanaka,
• Tetsuro Kobayashi,
• Koji Nakanishi,
• Rikako Koyama,
• Minoru Okubo,
• Toshio Murase,
• Masato Odawara,
• and Hidetoshi Inoko

Association of HLA-DQ Genotype in Autoantibody-Negative and Rapid-Onset Type 1 Diabetes

• Yukihiko Momiyama,
• Yoshihiko Suzuki,
• Masako Ohtomo,
• Yoshihito Atsumi,
• Kempei Matsuoka,
• Fumitaka Ohsuzu,
• and Mitsuru Kimura

Cardiac Autonomic Nervous Dysfunction in Diabetic Patients With a Mitochondrial DNA Mutation: Assessment by heart rate variability

• Marjo Tamminen,
• Jukka Westerbacka,
• Satu Vehkavaara,
• and Hannele Yki-Järvinen

Insulin-Induced Decreases in Aortic Wave Reflection and Central Systolic Pressure Are Impaired in Type 2 Diabetes

• Nish Chaturvedi,
• Casper G. Schalkwijk,
• Heidemarie Abrahamian,
• John H. Fuller,
• and Coen D.A. Stehouwer

Circulating and Urinary Transforming Growth Factor β1, Amadori Albumin, and Complications of Type 1 Diabetes: The EURODIAB Prospective Complications Study

• Søren T. Knudsen,
• Toke Bek,
• Per L. Poulsen,
• Marianne N. Hove,
• Michael Rehling,
• and Carl E. Mogensen

Macular Edema Reflects Generalized Vascular Hyperpermeability in Type 2 Diabetic Patients With Retinopathy

• Carmen Castaneda,
• Jennifer E. Layne,
• Leda Munoz-Orians,
• Patricia L. Gordon,
• Joseph Walsmith,
• Mona Foldvari,
• Ronenn Roubenoff,
• Katherine L. Tucker,
• and Miriam E. Nelson

A Randomized Controlled Trial of Resistance Exercise Training to Improve Glycemic Control in Older Adults With Type 2 Diabetes

• Zachary T. Bloomgarden

Adiposity and Diabetes

• Kenneth Lee Jones

Why Test the Children?: Understanding insulin resistance, its complications, and its progression

• Yoshinori Mitamura,
• Asako Tashimo,
• Yasushi Nakamura,
• Hiroshi Tagawa,
• Kenji Ohtsuka,
• Yuka Mizue,
• and Jun Nishihira

Vitreous Levels of Placenta Growth Factor and Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Patients With Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy

• Valeria Hirschler,
• Claudio Aranda,
• Adriana Oneto,
• Claudio Gonzalez,
• and Mauricio Jadzinsky

Is Acanthosis Nigricans a Marker of Insulin Resistance in Obese Children?

• Tatsuhiko Urakami,
• Makio Nakagawa,
• Shigeo Morimoto,
• Shigeki Kubota,
• Misao Owada,
• and Kensuke Harada

A Subtype of Markedly Abrupt Onset With Absolute Insulin Deficiency in Idiopathic Type 1 Diabetes in Japanese Children

• Christine A. Brosnan,
• Janet C. Meininger,
• Paul R. Swank,
• Lisa R. Reyes,
• and Patrick G. Brosnan

Blood Pressure Profiles in Adolescents With Recently Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes

• Franco Cavalot,
• Paola Massucco,
• Paolo Perna,
• Monica Traversa,
• Giovanni Anfossi,
• and Mariella Trovati

White Blood Cell Count Is Positively Correlated With Albumin Excretion Rate in Subjects With Type 2 Diabetes

• Giuseppe Pozzessere,
• Paolo Rossi,
• Annarita Gabriele,
• Rosalba Cipriani,
• Antonino Morocutti,
• Umberto Di Mario,
• and Susanna Morano

Early Detection of Small-Fiber Neuropathy in Diabetes: A laser-induced pain somatosensory-evoked potentials and pupillometric study

• Rosa Giannarelli,
• Alberto Coppelli,
• Maria S. Sartini,
• Michele Aragona,
• Ugo Boggi,
• Franco Mosca,
• Michele Nardi,
• Stefano Del Prato,
• and Piero Marchetti

Early Improvement of Unstable Diabetic Retinopathy After Solitary Pancreas Transplantation

• Soji Kasayama,
• Toshio Tanaka,
• Kunihiko Hashimoto,
• Masafumi Koga,
• and Ichiro Kawase

Efficacy of Glimepiride for the Treatment of Diabetes Occurring During Glucocorticoid Therapy

• Kirsten A. McAuley,
• Sheila M. Williams,
• Jim I. Mann,
• Ailsa Goulding,
• and Eleanor Murphy

Increased Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Despite Same Degree of Adiposity in Different Racial Groups

• Aneliya Parvanova,
• Ilian Iliev,
• Borislav D. Dimitrov,
• Federica Arnoldi,
• Jelka Zaletel,
• Giuseppe Remuzzi,
• and Piero Ruggenenti

Hyperhomocysteinemia and Increased Risk of Retinopathy: A cross-sectional, case-control study in patients with type 2 diabetes

• J. Clarke Stevens and
• C. Michel Harper

Comment on study by Perkins et al.

• Bruce Perkins and
• Vera Bril

Response to Stevens and Harper

• Michiaki Fukui,
• Yoshihiro Kitagawa,
• Naoto Nakamura,
• and Toshikazu Yoshikawa

Clinical Heterogeneity of Patients With Adult-Onset Diabetes and GAD Autoantibodies

• Eiji Kawasaki,
• Haruhiko Osawa,
• and Hideichi Makino

The Clinical Heterogeneity of Adult-Onset Diabetic Patients With GAD Autoantibodies in Japan: Response to Fukui et al.

• Luciana A. Costa,
• Luis H. Canani,
• Ana L. Maia,
• and Jorge L. Gross

The ACE Insertion/Deletion Polymorphism Is Not Associated With the Metabolic Syndrome (WHO Definition) in Brazilian Type 2 Diabetic Patients

• Yau-Jiunn Lee and
• Jack C.-R. Tsai

Response to Costa

• Mark J. Nicolich

Diabetes and the State Capital: Response to Lockwood

• Alan H. Lockwood

Response to Nicolich

Erratum