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• Max K. Bulsara,
• C. D’Arcy J. Holman,
• Elizabeth A. Davis,
• and Timothy W. Jones

The Impact of a Decade of Changing Treatment on Rates of Severe Hypoglycemia in a Population-Based Cohort of Children With Type 1 Diabetes

• Richard W. Grant,
• Enrico Cagliero,
• Christine M. Sullivan,
• Anil K. Dubey,
• Greg A. Estey,
• Eric M. Weil,
• Joseph Gesmundo,
• David M. Nathan,
• Daniel E. Singer,
• Henry C. Chueh,
• and James B. Meigs

A Controlled Trial of Population Management: Diabetes Mellitus: Putting Evidence into Practice (DM-PEP)

• Ibrahim Salti,
• Eric Bénard,
• Bruno Detournay,
• Monique Bianchi-Biscay,
• Corinne Le Brigand,
• Céline Voinet,
• and Abdul Jabbar

A Population-Based Study of Diabetes and Its Characteristics During the Fasting Month of Ramadan in 13 Countries: Results of the Epidemiology of Diabetes and Ramadan 1422/2001 (EPIDIAR) study

• Rui Li,
• Jodi Simon,
• Thomas Bodenheimer,
• Robin R. Gillies,
• Lawrence Casalino,
• Julie Schmittdiel,
• and Stephen M. Shortell

Organizational Factors Affecting the Adoption of Diabetes Care Management Processes in Physician Organizations

• A. Marshall McBean,
• Shuling Li,
• David T. Gilbertson,
• and Allan J. Collins

Differences in Diabetes Prevalence, Incidence, and Mortality Among the Elderly of Four Racial/Ethnic Groups: Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians

• Patrick J. O’Connor,
• Stephen E. Asche,
• A. Lauren Crain,
• William A. Rush,
• Robin R. Whitebird,
• Leif I. Solberg,
• and JoAnn M. Sperl-Hillen

Is Patient Readiness to Change a Predictor of Improved Glycemic Control?

• Allison M. Hodge,
• Dallas R. English,
• Kerin O’Dea,
• and Graham G. Giles

Increased Diabetes Incidence in Greek and Italian Migrants to Australia: How much can be explained by known risk factors?

• Andrew J. Sommerfield,
• Ian J. Deary,
• and Brian M. Frier

Acute Hyperglycemia Alters Mood State and Impairs Cognitive Performance in People With Type 2 Diabetes

• Brian E. Lacy,
• Michael D. Crowell,
• Ann Schettler-Duncan,
• Carole Mathis,
• and Pankaj J. Pasricha

The Treatment of Diabetic Gastroparesis With Botulinum Toxin Injection of the Pylorus

• Leonard C. Harrison,
• Margo C. Honeyman,
• Cheryl E. Steele,
• Natalie L. Stone,
• Elena Sarugeri,
• Ezio Bonifacio,
• Jennifer J. Couper,
• and Peter G. Colman

Pancreatic β-Cell Function and Immune Responses to Insulin After Administration of Intranasal Insulin to Humans At Risk for Type 1 Diabetes

• Priscilla A. Hollander,
• Lawrence Blonde,
• Richard Rowe,
• Adi E. Mehta,
• Joseph L. Milburn,
• Kenneth S. Hershon,
• Jean-Louis Chiasson,
• and Seymour R. Levin

Efficacy and Safety of Inhaled Insulin (Exubera) Compared With Subcutaneous Insulin Therapy in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes: Results of a 6-month, randomized, comparative trial

• George Dailey,
• Julio Rosenstock,
• Robert G. Moses,
• and Kirk Ways

Insulin Glulisine Provides Improved Glycemic Control in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes

• Vera Bril and
• Robert A. Buchanan

Aldose Reductase Inhibition by AS-3201 in Sural Nerve From Patients With Diabetic Sensorimotor Polyneuropathy

• Sicco A. Bus,
• Mario Maas,
• Peter R. Cavanagh,
• Robert P. J. Michels,
• and Marcel Levi

Plantar Fat-Pad Displacement in Neuropathic Diabetic Patients With Toe Deformity: A magnetic resonance imaging study

• Henning Andersen,
• Michaela D. Gjerstad,
• and Johannes Jakobsen

Atrophy of Foot Muscles: A measure of diabetic neuropathy

• Heidrun H. Krämer,
• Roman Rolke,
• Andreas Bickel,
• and Frank Birklein

Thermal Thresholds Predict Painfulness of Diabetic Neuropathies

• Sadao Wakabayashi and
• Yoshimasa Aso

Adiponectin Concentrations in Sera From Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Are Negatively Associated With Sympathovagal Balance as Evaluated by Power Spectral Analysis of Heart Rate Variation

• Alan H.B. Wu,
• Torbjørn Omland,
• Philippe Duc,
• James McCord,
• Richard M. Nowak,
• Judd E. Hollander,
• Howard C. Herrmann,
• Philippe G. Steg,
• Cathrine Wold Knudsen,
• Alan B. Storrow,
• William T. Abraham,
• Alberto Perez,
• Richard Kamin,
• Paul Clopton,
• Alan S. Maisel,
• and Peter A. McCullough

The Effect of Diabetes on B-Type Natriuretic Peptide Concentrations in Patients With Acute Dyspnea: An analysis from the Breathing Not Properly Multinational Study

• Giuliana Valerio,
• Adriana Franzese,
• Mariacarolina Salerno,
• Gianluca Muzzi,
• Gaetano Cecere,
• Karen I. Temple,
• and Julian P. Shield

β-Cell Dysfunction in Classic Transient Neonatal Diabetes Is Characterized by Impaired Insulin Response to Glucose but Normal Response to Glucagon

• Masanobu Tsuchiya,
• Eiji Suzuki,
• Katsuya Egawa,
• Yoshihiko Nishio,
• Hiroshi Maegawa,
• Shinji Inoue,
• Kenichi Mitsunami,
• Shigehiro Morikawa,
• Toshiro Inubushi,
• and Atsunori Kashiwagi

Stiffness and Impaired Blood Flow in Lower-Leg Arteries Are Associated With Severity of Coronary Artery Calcification Among Asymptomatic Type 2 Diabetic Patients

• Christian Bitz,
• Søren Toubro,
• Thomas M. Larsen,
• Helle Harder,
• Kirsten L. Rennie,
• Susan A. Jebb,
• and Arne Astrup

Increased 24-h Energy Expenditure in Type 2 Diabetes

• Megan Jehn,
• Jeanne M. Clark,
• and Eliseo Guallar

Serum Ferritin and Risk of the Metabolic Syndrome in U.S. Adults

• Jian-jun Wang,
• Qing Qiao,
• Maija E. Miettinen,
• Jani Lappalainen,
• Gang Hu,
• and Jaakko Tuomilehto

The Metabolic Syndrome Defined by Factor Analysis and Incident Type 2 Diabetes in a Chinese Population With High Postprandial Glucose

• Glen E. Duncan,
• Sierra M. Li,
• and Xiao-Hua Zhou

Prevalence and Trends of a Metabolic Syndrome Phenotype Among U.S. Adolescents, 1999–2000

• Earl S. Ford,
• Wayne H. Giles,
• and Ali H. Mokdad

Increasing Prevalence of the Metabolic Syndrome Among U.S. Adults

• Greeshma K. Shetty,
• Panayiotis A. Economides,
• Edward S. Horton,
• Christos S. Mantzoros,
• and Aristidis Veves

Circulating Adiponectin and Resistin Levels in Relation to Metabolic Factors, Inflammatory Markers, and Vascular Reactivity in Diabetic Patients and Subjects at Risk for Diabetes

• Raj Padwal,
• Muhammad Mamdani,
• David A. Alter,
• Jan E. Hux,
• Deanna M. Rothwell,
• Karen Tu,
• and Andreas Laupacis

Antihypertensive Therapy and Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes in an Elderly Cohort

• Peter M. Nilsson,
• Mattias Rööst,
• Gunnar Engström,
• Bo Hedblad,
• and Göran Berglund

Incidence of Diabetes in Middle-Aged Men Is Related to Sleep Disturbances

• Marie-Éve Piché,
• Jean-Francois Arcand-Bossé,
• Jean-Pierre Després,
• Louis Pérusse,
• Simone Lemieux,
• and S. John Weisnagel

What is a Normal Glucose Value?: Differences in indexes of plasma glucose homeostasis in subjects with normal fasting glucose

• Jamal S. Rana,
• Murray A. Mittleman,
• Javed Sheikh,
• Frank B. Hu,
• JoAnn E. Manson,
• Graham A. Colditz,
• Frank E. Speizer,
• R. Graham Barr,
• and Carlos A. Camargo, Jr

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Asthma, and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Women

• Ildiko H. Koves,
• Jocelyn Neutze,
• Susan Donath,
• Warren Lee,
• George A. Werther,
• Peter Barnett,
• and Fergus J. Cameron

The Accuracy of Clinical Assessment of Dehydration During Diabetic Ketoacidosis in Childhood

• Noriko Satoh,
• Mitsuhide Naruse,
• Takeshi Usui,
• Tetsuya Tagami,
• Takayoshi Suganami,
• Kazunori Yamada,
• Hideshi Kuzuya,
• Akira Shimatsu,
• and Yoshihiro Ogawa

Leptin-to-Adiponectin Ratio as a Potential Atherogenic Index in Obese Type 2 Diabetic Patients

• Hiroshi Yamada,
• Kaoru Yamada,
• Masako Waki,
• and Keizo Umegaki

Lymphocyte and Plasma Vitamin C Levels in Type 2 Diabetic Patients With and Without Diabetes Complications

• Leonard E. Egede and
• Mary E. Poston

Racial/Ethnic Differences in Leisure-Time Physical Activity Levels Among Individuals With Diabetes

• Richard R. Rubin and
• Mark Peyrot

Quality of Life, Treatment Satisfaction, and Treatment Preference Associated With Use of a Pen Device Delivering a Premixed 70/30 Insulin Aspart Suspension (Aspart Protamine Suspension/Soluble Aspart) Versus Alternative Treatment Strategies

• Giovanni Targher,
• Lorenzo Bertolini,
• Roberto Padovani,
• Luciano Zenari,
• Giacomo Zoppini,
• and Giancarlo Falezza

Relation of Nonalcoholic Hepatic Steatosis to Early Carotid Atherosclerosis in Healthy Men: Role of visceral fat accumulation

• Anna Veronelli,
• Marco Laneri,
• Roberto Ranieri,
• Diana Koprivec,
• Debora Vardaro,
• Michele Paganelli,
• Franco Folli,
• and Antonio E. Pontiroli

White Blood Cells in Obesity and Diabetes: Effects of weight loss and normalization of glucose metabolism

• Katy Dewitte,
• Annemieke Dhondt,
• Mimi Giri,
• Dietmar Stöckl,
• Raoul Rottiers,
• Norbert Lameire,
• and Linda M. Thienpont

Differences in Serum Ionized and Total Magnesium Values During Chronic Renal Failure Between Nondiabetic and Diabetic Patients: A cross-sectional study

• Arcangelo Iannuzzi,
• Maria Rosaria Licenziati,
• Ciro Acampora,
• Vittorio Salvatore,
• Lucia Auriemma,
• Maria Luigia Romano,
• Salvatore Panico,
• Paolo Rubba,
• and Maurizio Trevisan

Increased Carotid Intima-Media Thickness and Stiffness in Obese Children

• Patrick J. Manning,
• Wayne H. Sutherland,
• Gavin Hendry,
• Sylvia A. de Jong,
• Michelle McGrath,
• and Sheila M. Williams

Changes in Circulating Postprandial Proinflammatory Cytokine Concentrations in Diet-Controlled Type 2 Diabetes and the Effect of Ingested Fat

• James P. Burke,
• Jessica Forsgren,
• Pasquale J. Palumbo,
• Kent R. Bailey,
• Jay Desai,
• Heather Devlin,
• and Cynthia L. Leibson

Association of Birth Weight and Type 2 Diabetes in Rochester, Minnesota

• Anoula Galettis,
• Suzanne Campbell,
• Jonathan M. Morris,
• Christopher J. Jackson,
• Steven M. Twigg,
• and Eileen D.M. Gallery

Monocyte Adhesion to Decidual Endothelial Cells Is Increased in Pregnancies Complicated by Type 1 Diabetes but not by Gestational Diabetes

• Martha Rodríguez-Morán,
• Beatriz Salazar-Vázquez,
• Rafael Violante,
• and Fernando Guerrero-Romero

Metabolic Syndrome Among Children and Adolescents Aged 10–18 Years

• Ronald J. Sigal,
• Glen P. Kenny,
• David H. Wasserman,
• and Carmen Castaneda-Sceppa

Physical Activity/Exercise and Type 2 Diabetes

• Donald S. Fong,
• Lloyd P. Aiello,
• Frederick L. Ferris III,
• and Ronald Klein

Diabetic Retinopathy

• Zachary T. Bloomgarden

Gut-Derived Incretin Hormones and New Therapeutic Approaches

• Lielith J. Ubink-Veltmaat,
• Roger A.J.M. Damoiseaux,
• Roel O. Rischen,
• and Klaas H. Groenier

Please, Let My Doctor Be Obese: Associations between the characteristics of general practitioners and their patients with type 2 diabetes

• Shuen-Fu Weng,
• Yuh-Shyang Chen,
• Tien-Chen Liu,
• Chuan-Jen Hsu,
• and Fen-Yu Tseng

Prognostic Factors of Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss in Diabetic Patients

• Leszek Czupryniak,
• Janusz Strzelczyk,
• Katarzyna Cypryk,
• Maciej Pawlowski,
• Dariusz Szymanski,
• Andrzej Lewinski,
• and Jerzy Loba

Gastric Bypass Surgery in Severely Obese Type 1 Diabetic Patients

• Koutaro Yokote,
• Kazuo Hara,
• Seijiro Mori,
• Takashi Kadowaki,
• Yasushi Saito,
• and Makoto Goto

Dysadipocytokinemia in Werner Syndrome and Its Recovery by Treatment With Pioglitazone

• Noriaki Tohgi

Effect of α-Linolenic Acid–Containing Linseed Oil on Coagulation in Type 2 Diabetes

• Ian B. Wilkinson and
• Carmel McEniery

Use of Arterial Transfer Functions for the Derivation of Central Aortic Waveform Characteristics in Subjects With Type 2 Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease: Response to Hope et al.

• Alberto P. Avolio,
• John R. Cockcroft,
• and Michael F. O’Rourke

Use of Arterial Transfer Functions for the Derivation of Central Aortic Waveform Characteristics in Subjects With Type 2 Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease: Response to Hope et al.

• Sarah A. Hope,
• David B. Tay,
• Ian T. Meredith,
• and James D. Cameron

Use of Arterial Transfer Functions for the Derivation of Central Aortic Waveform Characteristics in Subjects With Type 2 Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease: Response to Wilkinson and McEniery and Avolio, Cockcroft, and O’Rourke

• Kieren Mather and
• Richard Lewanczuk

Use of Arterial Transfer Functions for the Derivation of Central Aortic Waveform Characteristics in Subjects With Type 2 Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease: Response to Avolio, Cockcroft, and O’Rourke

• Wieland Kiess,
• Klemens Raile,
• Angela Galler,
• and Thomas Kapellen

Insulin Detemir Offers Improved Glycemic Control Compared With NPH Insulin in People With Type 1 Diabetes: Response to Home et al.

• Wolfgang Rathmann and
• Guido Giani

Global Prevalence of Diabetes: Estimates for the Year 2000 and Projections for 2030: Response to Wild et al.

• Patrick J. Twomey,
• Adie Viljoen,
• Timothy M. Reynolds,
• and Anthony S. Wierzbicki

Biological Variation in HbA_1c Predicts Risk of Retinopathy and Nephropathy in Type 1 Diabetes: Response to McCarter et al.

• Sarah H. Wild,
• Gojka Roglic,
• Anders Green,
• Richard Sicree,
• and Hilary King

Global Prevalence of Diabetes: Estimates for the Year 2000 and Projections for 2030: Response to Rathman and Giani

• Stuart A. Chalew,
• Robert J. McCarter,
• and James M. Hempe

Biological Variation in HbA_1c Predicts Risk of Retinopathy and Nephropathy in Type 1 Diabetes: Response to Twomey et al.

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