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...Wackers stresses, however, that these findings do nothing to diminish the very real risk of heart disease in diabetics. A 1998 Finnish study documented that diabetes patients who had not suffered a heart attack had the same poor health profile as those who had - findings that prompted the American Diabetes Association to recommend heart-disease screening for all diabetes patients with two or more additional risk factors for heart disease, such as high cholesterol or hypertension, even in the absence of symptoms. "That study really changed the field," says Wackers, "and told us we cannot miss the risk of heart...
...response to a question about how they would work to diminish the city’s achievement gap, both Turk and Young—who is the superintendent of Newton Public School—said they believed holding all students to rigorous standards, regardless of racial and socioeconomic differences, would result in progress in all subgroups...
...typical Harvard-Yale fashion, the Crimson soon saw its lead diminish. In a 10-minute stretch, Yale scored three-straight goals to tie up the game with 17:57 left of play...
...about the stability of the organization or the caliber of its productions, Wong feels that opening theater to as many individuals as possible is hardly a detriment.“[Theater is] less about having good acting—though of course we don’t want to diminish the value of quality acting—than it is about adding diversity,” Wong says. “Having a play with those who have less experience can be an artistic statement in and of itself.”“A friend...
...into a spiral of fervent public defiance of the contemporary behavioral norms. As her story unfolds, details that previously seemed extraneous begin to fall into place. Though the reader knows how the story will end, the sense of foreboding and the emotional impact in the final cataclysm does not diminish. The florid effervescence of the rest of the work ends on a genuinely somber and powerfully affective note, hinting at what Boyle might accomplish if all his work could be as tightly constructed as this last segment. Boyle does not shy away from portraying every dimension, and every sordid detail...