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• Anni B.S. Nielsen,
• Niels de Fine Olivarius,
• Dorte Gannik,
• Charlotte Hindsberger,
• and Hanne Hollnagel

Structured Personal Diabetes Care in Primary Health Care Affects Only Women’s HbA_1c

• Spiros Fourlanos,
• Christine Perry,
• Mark S. Stein,
• Jim Stankovich,
• Leonard C. Harrison,
• and Peter G. Colman

A Clinical Screening Tool Identifies Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults

• Kay M. Behall,
• Daniel J. Scholfield,
• Judith G. Hallfrisch,
• and Helena G.M. Liljeberg-Elmståhl

Consumption of Both Resistant Starch and β-Glucan Improves Postprandial Plasma Glucose and Insulin in Women

• Vicki S. Helgeson,
• Laura Viccaro,
• Dorothy Becker,
• Oscar Escobar,
• and Linda Siminerio

Diet of Adolescents With and Without Diabetes: Trading candy for potato chips?

• Stefan Beckert,
• Maria Witte,
• Corinna Wicke,
• Alfred Königsrainer,
• and Stephan Coerper

A New Wound-Based Severity Score for Diabetic Foot Ulcers: A prospective analysis of 1,000 patients

• Mandy Schulz,
• Angela D. Liese,
• Fang Fang,
• Theodosha S. Gilliard,
• and Andrew J. Karter

Is the Association Between Dietary Glycemic Index and Type 2 Diabetes Modified by Waist Circumference?

• Ute M. Schaefer-Graf,
• Reinhard Hartmann,
• Julia Pawliczak,
• Doerte Passow,
• Michael Abou-Dakn,
• Klaus Vetter,
• and Olga Kordonouri

Association of Breast-feeding and Early Childhood Overweight in Children From Mothers With Gestational Diabetes Mellitus

• Shelagh A. Mulvaney,
• David G. Schlundt,
• Eniola Mudasiru,
• Mary Fleming,
• Ann M. Vander Woude,
• William E. Russell,
• Tom A. Elasy,
• and Russell Rothman

Parent Perceptions of Caring for Adolescents With Type 2 Diabetes

• Christopher Nielson,
• Theodore Lange,
• and Nicholas Hadjokas

Blood Glucose and Coronary Artery Disease in Nondiabetic Patients

• Susana R. Patton,
• Lawrence M. Dolan,
• and Scott W. Powers

Mealtime Interactions Relate to Dietary Adherence and Glycemic Control in Young Children With Type 1 Diabetes

• Ellen Nolte,
• Chris Bain,
• and Martin McKee

Diabetes as a Tracer Condition in International Benchmarking of Health Systems

• H. Peter Chase,
• Brian Horner,
• Kim McFann,
• Hannah Yetzer,
• Jana Gaston,
• Carolyn Banion,
• Rosanna Fiallo-Scharer,
• Robert Slover,
• and Georgeanna Klingensmith

The Use of Insulin Pumps With Meal Bolus Alarms in Children With Type 1 Diabetes to Improve Glycemic Control

• David M. Kendall,
• Cindy J. Rubin,
• Pharis Mohideen,
• Jean-Marie Ledeine,
• Rene Belder,
• Jorge Gross,
• Paul Norwood,
• Michael O’Mahony,
• Kenneth Sall,
• Greg Sloan,
• Anthony Roberts,
• Fred T. Fiedorek,
• and Ralph A. DeFronzo

Improvement of Glycemic Control, Triglycerides, and HDL Cholesterol Levels With Muraglitazar, a Dual (α/γ) Peroxisome Proliferator–Activated Receptor Activator, in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Inadequately Controlled With Metformin Monotherapy: A double-blind, randomized, pioglitazone-comparative study

• Peter Rossing,
• Kasper Rossing,
• Peter Gæde,
• Oluf Pedersen,
• and Hans-Henrik Parving

Monitoring Kidney Function in Type 2 Diabetic Patients With Incipient and Overt Diabetic Nephropathy

• Marietta Stadler,
• Christian Anderwald,
• Tina Karer,
• Andrea Tura,
• Thomas Kästenbauer,
• Martin Auinger,
• Christian Bieglmayer,
• Oswald Wagner,
• Florian Kronenberg,
• Peter Nowotny,
• Giovanni Pacini,
• and Rudolf Prager

Increased Plasma Amylin in Type 1 Diabetic Patients After Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation: A sign of impaired β-cell function?

• Harald Sourij,
• Robert Zweiker,
• and Thomas C. Wascher

Effects of Pioglitazone on Endothelial Function, Insulin Sensitivity, and Glucose Control in Subjects With Coronary Artery Disease and New-Onset Type 2 Diabetes

• Venkatesan Radha,
• Karani S. Vimaleswaran,
• Hunsur Narayan S. Babu,
• Nicola Abate,
• Manisha Chandalia,
• Pankaj Satija,
• Scott M. Grundy,
• Saurabh Ghosh,
• Partha P. Majumder,
• Raj Deepa,
• Sathyanarayana M.R. Rao,
• and Viswanathan Mohan

Role of Genetic Polymorphism Peroxisome Proliferator–Activated Receptor-γ2 Pro12Ala on Ethnic Susceptibility to Diabetes in South-Asian and Caucasian Subjects: Evidence for heterogeneity

• Susanne R. de Rooij,
• Rebecca C. Painter,
• David I.W. Phillips,
• Clive Osmond,
• Michael W.T. Tanck,
• Joep C. Defesche,
• Patrick M.M. Bossuyt,
• Robert P.J. Michels,
• Otto P. Bleker,
• and Tessa J. Roseboom

The Effects of the Pro12Ala Polymorphism of the Peroxisome Proliferator–Activated Receptor-γ2 Gene on Glucose/Insulin Metabolism Interact With Prenatal Exposure to Famine

• José-Manuel Fernández-Real,
• Abel López-Bermejo,
• Joan Vendrell,
• Maria-José Ferri,
• Mónica Recasens,
• and Wifredo Ricart

Burden of Infection and Insulin Resistance in Healthy Middle-Aged Men

• Majid Mojibian,
• Habiba Chakir,
• Amanda J. MacFarlane,
• David E. Lefebvre,
• John R. Webb,
• Claire Touchie,
• Jacob Karsh,
• Jennifer A. Crookshank,
• and Fraser W. Scott

Immune Reactivity to a Glb1 Homologue in a Highly Wheat-Sensitive Patient With Type 1 Diabetes and Celiac Disease

• Per M. Humpert,
• Stefan Kopf,
• Zdenka Djuric,
• Thoralf Wendt,
• Michael Morcos,
• Peter P. Nawroth,
• and Angelika Bierhaus

Plasma sRAGE Is Independently Associated With Urinary Albumin Excretion in Type 2 Diabetes

• Elizabeth L.M. Barr,
• Tien Y. Wong,
• Robyn J. Tapp,
• C. Alex Harper,
• Paul Z. Zimmet,
• Robert Atkins,
• and Jonathan E. Shaw

Is Peripheral Neuropathy Associated With Retinopathy and Albuminuria in Individuals With Impaired Glucose Metabolism?: The 1999–2000 AusDiab

• Makoto Daimon,
• Guijin Ji,
• Toshihide Oizumi,
• Takashi Kido,
• Masanori Baba,
• Yumi Jimbu,
• Wataru Kameda,
• Shinji Susa,
• Hiroshi Yamaguchi,
• Hiroshi Ohnuma,
• Masaaki Muramatsu,
• and Takeo Kato

Association of Nephrin Gene Polymorphisms With Type 2 Diabetes in a Japanese Population: The Funagata Study

• Rashmi Tomar,
• Sandeep Dhindsa,
• Ajay Chaudhuri,
• Priya Mohanty,
• Rajesh Garg,
• and Paresh Dandona

Contrasting Testosterone Concentrations in Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes

• Eric N. Taylor,
• Frank B. Hu,
• and Gary C. Curhan

Antihypertensive Medications and the Risk of Incident Type 2 Diabetes

• Katherine Esposito,
• Miryam Ciotola,
• Diego Carleo,
• Bruno Schisano,
• Franco Saccomanno,
• Ferdinando Carlo Sasso,
• Domenico Cozzolino,
• Roberta Assaloni,
• Domenico Merante,
• Antonio Ceriello,
• and Dario Giugliano

Effect of Rosiglitazone on Endothelial Function and Inflammatory Markers in Patients With the Metabolic Syndrome

• Xinhua Chen,
• Theresa O. Scholl,
• and T. Peter Stein

Association of Elevated Serum Ferritin Levels and the Risk of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in Pregnant Women: The Camden Study

• Luiz Guilherme Kraemer de Aguiar,
• Luciana R. Bahia,
• Nivaldo Villela,
• Camila Laflor,
• Fernando Sicuro,
• Nicolas Wiernsperger,
• Daniel Bottino,
• and Eliete Bouskela

Metformin Improves Endothelial Vascular Reactivity in First-Degree Relatives of Type 2 Diabetic Patients With Metabolic Syndrome and Normal Glucose Tolerance

• Duk-Hee Lee,
• Ding Yong Liu,
• David R. Jacobs, Jr.,
• Hai-Rim Shin,
• Kyungeun Song,
• In-Kyu Lee,
• Bowan Kim,
• and Robert C. Hider

Common Presence of Non–Transferrin-Bound Iron Among Patients With Type 2 Diabetes

• Albert Lecube,
• Cristina Hernández,
• Joan Genescà,
• and Rafael Simó

Proinflammatory Cytokines, Insulin Resistance, and Insulin Secretion in Chronic Hepatitis C patients: A case-control study

• Kazuo Hara,
• Yumi Matsushita,
• Momoko Horikoshi,
• Nobuo Yoshiike,
• Tetsuji Yokoyama,
• Heizo Tanaka,
• and Takashi Kadowaki

A Proposal for the Cutoff Point of Waist Circumference for the Diagnosis of Metabolic Syndrome in the Japanese Population

• Jamal S. Rana,
• Angelique C. Jansen,
• Aeilko H. Zwinderman,
• Max Nieuwdorp,
• Emily S. van Aalst-Cohen,
• J. Wouter Jukema,
• Mieke D. Trip,
• and John J.P. Kastelein

Metabolic Syndrome and Risk of Coronary, Cerebral, and Peripheral Vascular Disease in a Large Dutch Population With Familial Hypercholesterolemia

• Hirofumi Ohnishi,
• Shigeyuki Saitoh,
• Satoru Takagi,
• Nobuo Katoh,
• Yu Chiba,
• Hiroshi Akasaka,
• Yosuke Nakamura,
• and Kazuaki Shimamoto

Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes in Individuals With Central Obesity in a Rural Japanese Population: The Tanno and Sobetsu Study

• Muhammad A. Abdul-Ghani,
• Devjit Tripathy,
• and Ralph A. DeFronzo

Contributions of β-Cell Dysfunction and Insulin Resistance to the Pathogenesis of Impaired Glucose Tolerance and Impaired Fasting Glucose

• Albert Lecube,
• Cristina Hernández,
• Joan Genescà,
• and Rafael Simó

Glucose Abnormalities in Patients with Hepatitis C Virus Infection: Epidemiology and pathogenesis

• Joseph Wolfsdorf,
• Nicole Glaser,
• and Mark A. Sperling

Diabetic Ketoacidosis in Infants, Children, and Adolescents: A consensus statement from the American Diabetes Association

• Zachary T. Bloomgarden

Cardiovascular Disease

• Panteleimon A. Sarafidis and
• George L. Bakris

Antihypertensive Therapy and the Risk of New-Onset Diabetes

• Jonathan E. Shaw,
• Paul Z. Zimmet,
• and K. George M.M. Alberti

Point: Impaired Fasting Glucose: The Case for the New American Diabetes Association Criterion

• Jacqueline M. Dekker and
• Beverley Balkau

Counterpoint: Impaired Fasting Glucose: The Case Against the New American Diabetes Association Guidelines

• Cuong Nguyen Dang,
• Ramzana Anwar,
• Gwen Thomas,
• Yemparala D.M. Prasad,
• Andrew J.M. Boulton,
• and Rayaz A. Malik

The Biogun: A novel way of eradicating methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization in diabetic foot ulcers

• Bogna Wierusz-Wysocka,
• Dorota A. Zozulinska,
• Aleksandra Araszkiewicz,
• and Dorota Pisarczyk-Wiza

Higher Levels of HDL Cholesterol Are Associated With a Decreased Likelihood of Albuminuria in Patients With Long-Standing Type 1 Diabetes: Response to Molitch et al.

• Helen R. Murphy,
• Clair Wadham,
• Gerry Rayman,
• and Chas T. Skinner

Integrating Pediatric Diabetes Education Into Routine Clinical Care: The Families, Adolescents and Children’s Teamwork Study (FACTS)

• Giovanni Targher,
• Lorenzo Bertolini,
• Roberto Tessari,
• Luciano Zenari,
• and Guido Arcaro

Retinopathy Predicts Future Cardiovascular Events Among Type 2 Diabetic Patients: The Valpolicella Heart Diabetes Study

• John A. Kiayias,
• Eugenia D. Vlachou,
• Sofoklis Bakides,
• Eudokia Petridou,
• and Ilias N. Migdalis

Prostatic Cancer, Hypogonadism, and Insulin Resistance: A case report

• Nobuaki Ozaki,
• Yoshitaka Miura,
• and Yutaka Oiso

A Case of Type 1 Diabetes Followed by Methimazole-Induced Hypersensitivity Syndrome

• Masumi Ai,
• Akira Tanaka,
• Kyoko Ogita,
• and Kentaro Shimokado

Favorable Effects of Early Insulin Secretion by Nateglinide on Postprandial Hyperlipidemia in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes

• Onyebuchi E. Okosieme,
• Andrew Campbell,
• Katie Patton,
• and Marc L. Evans

Transient Diabetes Associated With Withdrawal of Lithium Therapy

• Rosa Di Paola,
• Ester Ciociola,
• Watip Boonyasrisawat,
• David Nolan,
• Jill Duffy,
• Giuseppe Miscio,
• Carmela Cisternino,
• Grazia Fini,
• Vittorio Tassi,
• Alessandro Doria,
• and Vincenzo Trischitta

Association of hGrb10 Genetic Variations With Type 2 Diabetes in Caucasian Subjects

• Filippo Luca Fimognari,
• Andrea Corsonello,
• Ruggero Pastorell,
• and Raffaele Antonelli-Incalzi

Metformin-Induced Pancreatitis: A possible adverse drug effect during acute renal failure

• Adam F. Spitz and
• Harshil Kanani

Change in HbA_1c as a Measure of Quality of Diabetes Care

• Nathaniel G. Clark and
• Gregory Pawlson

Change in HbA_1c as a Measure of Quality of Diabetes Care: Response to Spitz

• Nadir S. Dawood

Proposal for the Reconsideration of the Definition of Gestational Diabetes: Response to Omori and Jovanovic

• Lois Jovanovic

Proposal for the Reconsideration of the Definition of Gestational Diabetes: Response to Dawood

• Thomas J. Burke

The Effect of Monochromatic Infrared Energy on Sensation in Subjects With Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy: A Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study: Response to Clifft et al.

• Judy K. Clifft,
• Richard J. Kasser,
• Timothy S. Newton,
• and Andrew J. Bush

The Effect of Monochromatic Infrared Energy on Sensation in Subjects With Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy: A Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study: Response to Burke

• Martin K. Rutter and
• Richard W. Nesto

Ischemia Imaging and Plaque Imaging in Diabetes: Complementary Tools to Improve Cardiovascular Risk Management: Response to Raggi et al.

• Paolo Raggi,
• Antonio Bellasi,
• and Carlo Ratti

Ischemia Imaging and Plaque Imaging in Diabetes: Complementary Tools to Improve Cardiovascular Risk Management: Response to Rutter and Nesto

• Eiji Oda

Cut Points of Waist Circumference: Response to Sone and Colleagues

• Hirohito Sone,
• Sachiko Tanaka,
• Yasuo Ohashi,
• and Nobuhiro Yamada

Cut Points of Waist Circumference: Response to Oda

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