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• Henrik Wagner,
• Marie Degerblad,
• Anders Thorell,
• Jonas Nygren,
• Agneta Ståhle,
• Jeanette Kuhl,
• Torkel B. Brismar,
• John Öhrvik,
• Suad Efendic,
• and Peter N. Båvenholm

Combined Treatment With Exercise Training and Acarbose Improves Metabolic Control and Cardiovascular Risk Factor Profile in Subjects With Mild Type 2 Diabetes

• Robert H. Knopp,
• Michael d’Emden,
• Johan G. Smilde,
• and Stuart J. Pocock

Efficacy and Safety of Atorvastatin in the Prevention of Cardiovascular End Points in Subjects With Type 2 Diabetes: The Atorvastatin Study for Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease Endpoints in Non-Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus (ASPEN)

• Eric S. Kilpatrick,
• Alan S. Rigby,
• and Stephen L. Atkin

The Effect of Glucose Variability on the Risk of Microvascular Complications in Type 1 Diabetes

• Vincent Rigalleau,
• Catherine Lasseur,
• Christelle Raffaitin,
• Caroline Perlemoine,
• Nicole Barthe,
• Philippe Chauveau,
• Christian Combe,
• and Henri Gin

Glucose Control Influences Glomerular Filtration Rate and Its Prediction in Diabetic Subjects

• Takeshi Oomichi,
• Masanori Emoto,
• Tsutomu Tabata,
• Tomoaki Morioka,
• Yoshihiro Tsujimoto,
• Hideki Tahara,
• Tetsuo Shoji,
• and Yoshiki Nishizawa

Impact of Glycemic Control on Survival of Diabetic Patients on Chronic Regular Hemodialysis: A 7-year observational study

• Lu Qi,
• James B. Meigs,
• Simin Liu,
• JoAnn E. Manson,
• Christos Mantzoros,
• and Frank B. Hu

Dietary Fibers and Glycemic Load, Obesity, and Plasma Adiponectin Levels in Women With Type 2 Diabetes

• Samantha L. Clarke,
• Maria E. Craig,
• Sarah P. Garnett,
• Albert K. Chan,
• Christopher T. Cowell,
• Janine M. Cusumano,
• Olga Kordonouri,
• Abi Sambasivan,
• and Kim C. Donaghue

Increased Adiposity at Diagnosis in Younger Children With Type 1 Diabetes Does Not Persist

• Steven T. Johnson,
• Linda J. McCargar,
• Gordon J. Bell,
• Catrine Tudor-Locke,
• Vicki J. Harber,
• and Rhonda C. Bell

Walking Faster: Distilling a complex prescription for type 2 diabetes management through pedometry

• Arlene Smaldone,
• Om P. Ganda,
• Sheila McMurrich,
• Keri Hannagan,
• Susan Lin,
• A. Enrique Caballero,
• and Katie Weinger

Should Group Education Classes Be Separated by Type of Diabetes?

• Philip M. Clarke,
• Judit Simon,
• Carole A. Cull,
• and Rury R. Holman

Assessing the Impact of Visual Acuity on Quality of Life in Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes Using the Short Form-36

• Kylie Yates,
• Abul Hasnat Milton,
• Keith Dear,
• and Geoffrey Ambler

Continuous Glucose Monitoring–Guided Insulin Adjustment in Children and Adolescents on Near-Physiological Insulin Regimens: A randomized controlled trial

• Mark Davies,
• Sinead Brophy,
• Rhys Williams,
• and Ann Taylor

The Prevalence, Severity, and Impact of Painful Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy in Type 2 Diabetes

• Beatriz Y. Salazar-Vazquez,
• Marcos Intaglietta,
• Martha Rodríguez-Morán,
• and Fernando Guerrero-Romero

Blood Pressure and Hematocrit in Diabetes and the Role of Endothelial Responses in the Variability of Blood Viscosity

• Vera Novak,
• David Last,
• David C. Alsop,
• Amir M. Abduljalil,
• Kun Hu,
• Lukas Lepicovsky,
• Jerry Cavallerano,
• and Lewis A. Lipsitz

Cerebral Blood Flow Velocity and Periventricular White Matter Hyperintensities in Type 2 Diabetes

• Betty A. Maddux,
• Adelene Chan,
• Lawrence J. Mandarino,
• Ira D. Goldfine,
• and Elena A. De Filippis

IGF-Binding Protein-1 Levels Are Related to Insulin-Mediated Glucose Disposal and Are a Potential Serum Marker of Insulin Resistance

• Nigishi Hotta,
• Yasuo Akanuma,
• Ryuzo Kawamori,
• Kempei Matsuoka,
• Yoshitomo Oka,
• Motoaki Shichiri,
• Takayoshi Toyota,
• Mitsuyoshi Nakashima,
• Isao Yoshimura,
• Nobuo Sakamoto,
• Yukio Shigeta,
• and the ADCT Study Group

Long-Term Clinical Effects of Epalrestat, an Aldose Reductase Inhibitor, on Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy: The 3-year, multicenter, comparative Aldose Reductase Inhibitor-Diabetes Complications Trial

• Howard N. Hodis,
• Wendy J. Mack,
• Ling Zheng,
• Yanjie Li,
• Mina Torres,
• Diego Sevilla,
• Yolanda Stewart,
• Barbara Hollen,
• Karla Garcia,
• Petar Alaupovic,
• and Thomas A. Buchanan

Effect of Peroxisome Proliferator–Activated Receptor γ Agonist Treatment on Subclinical Atherosclerosis in Patients With Insulin-Requiring Type 2 Diabetes

• Juris J. Meier,
• Alexandra E. Butler,
• Ryan Galasso,
• and Peter C. Butler

Hyperinsulinemic Hypoglycemia After Gastric Bypass Surgery Is Not Accompanied by Islet Hyperplasia or Increased β-Cell Turnover

• Richard J. MacIsaac,
• Sianna Panagiotopoulos,
• Karen J. McNeil,
• Trudy J. Smith,
• Con Tsalamandris,
• Huming Hao,
• P. Geoffrey Matthews,
• Merlin C. Thomas,
• David A. Power,
• and George Jerums

Is Nonalbuminuric Renal Insufficiency in Type 2 Diabetes Related to an Increase in Intrarenal Vascular Disease?

• Giuseppina Imperatore,
• Yiling J. Cheng,
• Desmond E. Williams,
• Janet Fulton,
• and Edward W. Gregg

Physical Activity, Cardiovascular Fitness, and Insulin Sensitivity Among U.S. Adolescents: The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999–2002

• Mohsen Janghorbani,
• Diane Feskanich,
• Walter C. Willett,
• and Frank Hu

Prospective Study of Diabetes and Risk of Hip Fracture: The Nurses’ Health Study

• M. Cecilia Lansang,
• Linan Ma,
• Jesse D. Schold,
• Herwig-Ulf Meier-Kriesche,
• and Bruce Kaplan

The Relationship Between Diabetes and Infectious Hospitalizations in Renal Transplant Recipients

• Barbara Kollerits,
• Martin Auinger,
• Veronika Reisig,
• Thomas Kästenbauer,
• Arno Lingenhel,
• Karl Irsigler,
• Rudolf Prager,
• and Florian Kronenberg

Lipoprotein(a) as a Predictor of Cardiovascular Disease in a Prospectively Followed Cohort of Patients With Type 1 Diabetes

• Jang Yel Shin,
• Young Goo Shin,
• and Choon Hee Chung

Elevated Serum Osteoprotegerin Levels Are Associated With Vascular Endothelial Dysfunction in Type 2 Diabetes

• Jacqueline Geddes,
• Roderick E. Warren,
• Andrew J. Sommerfield,
• Vincent McAulay,
• Mark W.J. Strachan,
• Kate V. Allen,
• Ian J. Deary,
• and Brian M. Frier

Absence of Sexual Dimorphism in the Symptomatic Responses to Hypoglycemia in Adults With and Without Type 1 Diabetes

• Kayo Waki and
• Paul I. Terasaki

Kidney Graft and Patient Survival With and Without a Simultaneous Pancreas Utilizing Contralateral Kidneys From the Same Donor

• Simin Liu,
• Hyon K. Choi,
• Earl Ford,
• Yiqing Song,
• Anna Klevak,
• Julie E. Buring,
• and JoAnn E. Manson

A Prospective Study of Dairy Intake and the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Women

• Iris Shai,
• Rui Jiang,
• JoAnn E. Manson,
• Meir J. Stampfer,
• Walter C. Willett,
• Graham A. Colditz,
• and Frank B. Hu

Ethnicity, Obesity, and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Women: A 20-year follow-up study

• Anders Bojesen,
• Kurt Kristensen,
• Niels H. Birkebaek,
• Jens Fedder,
• Leif Mosekilde,
• Paul Bennett,
• Peter Laurberg,
• Jan Frystyk,
• Allan Flyvbjerg,
• Jens S. Christiansen,
• and Claus H. Gravholt

The Metabolic Syndrome Is Frequent in Klinefelter’s Syndrome and Is Associated With Abdominal Obesity and Hypogonadism

• Fida Bacha,
• Rola Saad,
• Neslihan Gungor,
• and Silva A. Arslanian

Are Obesity-Related Metabolic Risk Factors Modulated by the Degree of Insulin Resistance in Adolescents?

• Anne Karen Jenum,
• Sigmund A. Anderssen,
• Kåre I. Birkeland,
• Ingar Holme,
• Sidsel Graff-Iversen,
• Catherine Lorentzen,
• Yngvar Ommundsen,
• Truls Raastad,
• Ann Kristin Ødegaard,
• and Roald Bahr

Promoting Physical Activity in a Low-Income Multiethnic District: Effects of a Community Intervention Study to Reduce Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease: A community intervention reducing inactivity

• Muhammad A. Abdul-Ghani,
• Ken Williams,
• Ralph DeFronzo,
• and Michael Stern

Risk of Progression to Type 2 Diabetes Based on Relationship Between Postload Plasma Glucose and Fasting Plasma Glucose

• Celine Droumaguet,
• Beverley Balkau,
• Dominique Simon,
• Emile Caces,
• Jean Tichet,
• Marie Aline Charles,
• Eveline Eschwege,
• and the DESIR Study Group

Use of HbA_1c in Predicting Progression to Diabetes in French Men and Women: Data from an Epidemiological Study on the Insulin Resistance Syndrome (DESIR)

• Christian Herder,
• Hans Hauner,
• Burkhard Haastert,
• Karin Röhrig,
• Wolfgang Koenig,
• Hubert Kolb,
• Sylvia Müller-Scholze,
• Barbara Thorand,
• Rolf Holle,
• and Wolfgang Rathmann

Hypoadiponectinemia and Proinflammatory State: Two Sides of the Same Coin?: Results From the Cooperative Health Research in the Region of Augsburg Survey 4 (KORA S4)

• Keiko Asao,
• W.H. Linda Kao,
• Kesha Baptiste-Roberts,
• Karen Bandeen-Roche,
• Thomas P. Erlinger,
• and Frederick L. Brancati

Short Stature and the Risk of Adiposity, Insulin Resistance, and Type 2 Diabetes in Middle Age: The Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III), 1988–1994

• Duk-Hee Lee,
• In-Kyu Lee,
• Kyungeun Song,
• Michael Steffes,
• William Toscano,
• Beth A. Baker,
• and David R. Jacobs, Jr

A Strong Dose-Response Relation Between Serum Concentrations of Persistent Organic Pollutants and Diabetes: Results from the National Health and Examination Survey 1999–2002

• Peter E.H. Schwarz,
• Gordon W. Towers,
• Sabine Fischer,
• Suresh Govindarajalu,
• Jan Schulze,
• Stephan R. Bornstein,
• Markolf Hanefeld,
• and Francis Vasseur

Hypoadiponectinemia Is Associated With Progression Toward Type 2 Diabetes and Genetic Variation in the ADIPOQ Gene Promoter

• Johan Sundström,
• Erik Vallhagen,
• Ulf Risérus,
• Liisa Byberg,
• Björn Zethelius,
• Christian Berne,
• Lars Lind,
• and Erik Ingelsson

Risk Associated With the Metabolic Syndrome Versus the Sum of Its Individual Components

• Richard H. Glazier,
• Jana Bajcar,
• Natalie R. Kennie,
• and Kristie Willson

A Systematic Review of Interventions to Improve Diabetes Care in Socially Disadvantaged Populations

• Scott M. Grundy

Does the Metabolic Syndrome Exist?

• Richard Kahn

The Metabolic Syndrome (Emperor) Wears No Clothes

• Robert H. Eckel,
• Richard Kahn,
• Rose Marie Robertson,
• and Robert A. Rizza

Preventing Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes: A call to action from the American Diabetes Association and the American Heart Association

• Zachary T. Bloomgarden

Third Annual World Congress on the Insulin Resistance Syndrome: Mediators, antecedents, and measurement

• Geremia B. Bolli

Glucose Variability and Complications

• Damla Goksen,
• Sukran Darcan,
• Muammer Buyukinan,
• and Emine Kurt

Possible Problem With Optipen Pro-1: Should diabetic patients continue to use this product?

• Sabine Baillot-Rudoni,
• Dominique Apostol,
• Geneviève Vaillant,
• Jean-Marcel Brun,
• and Eric Renard

Implantable Pump Therapy Restores Metabolic Control and Quality of Life in Type 1 Diabetic Patients With Buschke’s Nonsystemic Scleroderma

• Satomi Mizuhashi,
• Keigo Nakamura,
• Yasumichi Mori,
• Mitsuhiko Noda,
• and Koji Nakanishi

Insulin Allergy and Immunologic Insulin Resistance Caused by Interleukin-6 in a Patient With Lung Cancer

• Daniel B. Costa and
• Mark S. Huberman

Improvement of Type 2 Diabetes in a Lung Cancer Patient Treated With Erlotinib

• Babak Yazdani-Biuki,
• Thomas Mueller,
• Hans-Peter Brezinschek,
• Josef Hermann,
• Winfried Graninger,
• and Thomas C. Wascher

Relapse of Diabetes After Interruption of Chronic Administration of Anti–Tumor Necrosis Factor-α Antibody Infliximab: A case observation

• Cinzia Murgia,
• Rachele Berria,
• Luigi Minerba,
• Barbara Malloci,
• Claudia Daniele,
• Pierina Zedda,
• M. Giovanna Ciccotto,
• Simonetta Sulis,
• Michela Murenu,
• Franco Tiddia,
• Mario Manai,
• and Gian Benedetto Melis

Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in Sardinia: Results from an early, universal screening procedure

• Theodoros Loizou,
• Stavros Pouloukas,
• Charalambos Tountas,
• Anastasia Thanopoulou,
• and Vasilios Karamanos

An Epidemiologic Study on the Prevalence of Diabetes, Glucose Intolerance, and Metabolic Syndrome in the Adult Population of the Republic of Cyprus

• Fu-Mei Chung,
• Dao-Ming Chang,
• Miao-Pei Chen,
• Jack C.-R. Tsai,
• Yi-Hsin Yang,
• Tien-Yu Shieh,
• Shyi-Jang Shin,
• Tony Hsiu-Hsi Chen,
• Tong-Yuan Tai,
• and Yau-Jiunn Lee

Areca Nut Chewing Is Associated With Metabolic Syndrome: Role of tumor necrosis factor-α, leptin, and white blood cell count in betel nut chewing–related metabolic derangements

• Rachel S. Dankner,
• Angela Chetrit,
• and Uri Goldbourt

The Metabolic Syndrome and Glucose Tolerance Status Deterioration Over 23-Year Follow-Up

• Mehmet Kanbay,
• Timucin Aydogan,
• Rifat Bozalan,
• Ayse Isik,
• Burak Uz,
• Arif Kaya,
• and Ali Akcay

A Rare but Serious Side Effect of Levofloxacin: Hypoglycemia in a geriatric patient

• Clara K. Chow,
• P. Krishnam Raju,
• Rama Raju,
• K. Srinath Reddy,
• Magnolia Cardona,
• David S. Celermajer,
• and Bruce C. Neal

The Prevalence and Management of Diabetes in Rural India

• Tsukasa Nakamura,
• Takeshi Sugaya,
• and Hikaru Koide

Cigarette Smoking Affects Urinary Liver-Type Fatty Acid–Binding Protein Concentration in Patients With Early Diabetic Nephropathy

• Alan W. Barclay and
• Jennie C. Brand-Miller

Validity of Glycemic Index Estimates in the Insulin Resistance Atherosclerosis Study: Response to Liese et al.

• Jeanne M. McCaffery,
• Biing-Jiun Shen,
• John F. Todaro,
• and Raymond S. Niaura

A Single Factor Underlies the Metabolic Syndrome: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis: Response to Pladevall et al.

• Manel Pladevall,
• Bonita Singal,
• L. Keoki Williams,
• Carlos Brotons,
• Heidi Guyer,
• Josep Sadurni,
• Carles Falces,
• Manuel Serrano-Rios,
• Rafael Gabriel,
• Jonathan E. Shaw,
• Paul Z. Zimmet,
• and Steven Haffner

A Single Factor Underlies the Metabolic Syndrome: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis: Response to McCaffery et al.

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