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Filter by:To measure the effects of a Medical health plan-directed automated telephone self-management support system (ATSM) on patient outcomes among ethnically diverse health plan enrollees with diabetes.
The objective of the project is to evaluate advantages from the use of a bearable continuous interstitial glucose monitoring device (GuardianR) during educative sessions of diabetic patients dedicated to functional insulin therapy teaching. This concept of intensified treatment is based on testing and explanation of simplified decision making algorithms to adapt insulin dose to every true life conditions. As self monitoring of capillary glucose level is needed to validate those algorithms, we postulate that using a device able to permanently control interstitial glucose readable by both medical team and patient himself (during the session and the 5 following days after discharge) could significantly improve safety and efficiency of such educative session.
This study will evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of multiple ascending doses of RO4998452 compared to placebo in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Successive cohorts of patients will be randomized to receive either active drug, at escalating doses, or placebo. The anticipated time on study treatment is <3 months, and the target sample size is <100 individuals.
Demonstrate that the use of benchmarking improves quality of patient care, in particular the control of diabetes, lipids and blood pressure, by determining the percentage of patients in the benchmarking group achieving pre-set targets for HbA1c 14,18, LDL-cholesterol16,18 and Systolic Blood Pressure17,18 versus control group (non-benchmarking group) after 12 months of follow-up.
Gestational diabetes (GDM) is a condition that manifests as high blood sugar levels (hyperglycemia) during pregnancy in previously healthy women. It develops as a result of increased maternal body's resistance to insulin - a major hormone that allows for utilisation of glucose (sugar taken in with food) within cells. It was found out that GDM occurs more frequently in overweight women but also in women with a history of certain conditions such as polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). Usually, GDM disappears after pregnancy is completed but it is associated with some serious hazards for women and her unborn child, if untreated properly. Diet is a first-choice treatment but sometimes insulin therapy must be initiated if keeping a diet alone is not enough to maintain blood sugar within recommended values. Insulin therapy is effective but it requires several injections during each day and insulin is a strong acting hypoglycemic agent that may induce rapid falls in blood sugar, also dangerous for mother and unborn child. In the investigators study, the investigators would like to investigate if metformin that is a commonly used hypoglycemic drug can be effectively used for GDM treatment. Metformin has been used successfully for a long time to treat type 2 diabetes mellitus and PCOS and, according to current data, it is not dangerous neither for mother nor for baby when used during gestation.
Heart failure remains an increasing cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States even in the face of recent advances in the treatment of cardiovascular disease. There is an urgent need to reevaluate the treatment of heart failure. Shifting substrate utilization used in energy metabolism from fatty acids to glucose is beneficial to the heart presumably by increasing the efficiency of ATP production. Several new drugs for the treatment of cardiac ischemia work by this mechanism. There is increasing evidence that patients with heart failure may also benefit by the same type of intervention. Patients with heart failure are known to have low serum thiamine levels because of poor dietary intake and increased urinary excretion. Inadequate thiamine will deleteriously shift substrate utilization from glucose to fatty acids. We hypothesize that thiamine supplementation will be beneficial for patients with heart failure by increasing glucose and decreasing fatty acid utilization. This will be initially tested in a pilot double-blinded placebo controlled study of thiamine supplementation in diabetic and non-diabetic patients presenting to the emergency department with acute decompensated heart failure.
The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of rosiglitazone on the bone in postmenopausal women with type 2 diabetes mellitus
The purpose of this study is to find out if an 8-day series of otelixizumab infusions leads to greater improvement in insulin secretion as compared with placebo infusion. Insulin secretion will be assessed using mixed meal-stimulated C-peptide. Subjects will be assigned to receive either otelixizumab or placebo at a ratio of 2:1 (2/3 otelixizumab, 1/3 placebo). These study agents will be administered as an addition to insulin, diet, and other physician determined standard of care treatments. DEFEND-1 is now closed to enrollment. DEFEND-2 will begin early in 2010. It is very similar to DEFEND-1 and will again require subjects with new onset type 1 diabetes. Please check back here for more details. In the meantime, established and new onset type 1 diabetes patients in North America are welcome to consider the TTEDD study: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00451321?term=TTEDD&rank=1
The superiority of BAY 38-9456 10 mg and 20 mg regimens to placebo, and of 20 mg to 10 mg was confirmed in patients with diabetes mellitus suffering from erectile dysfunction. There was no large difference in incidence rate of drug-related adverse events between 10 mg and 20 mg regimens. Overall the tolerability was considered good with both regimens.
The purpose of this placebo controlled trial is to determine whether a year long intervention with flavonoids (found in cocoa and soy) is more effective in reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease in postmenopausal women with type 2 diabetes, than standard therapy (statins). A range of markers of cardiovascular disease risk are being studied and volunteers are also providing urine and blood samples. 152 postmenopausal women, from the locality, will be recruited for this study.