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...plans to officially recommend that physicians consider treating anyone with a fasting glucose of 100 mg/dL or higher, down from 110 mg/dL or higher in the previous guidelines. "If your fasting blood sugar is below 100, your chances of getting diabetes are quite low," says Dr. Robert Rizza, an endocrinologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and a vice president of the American Diabetes Association. "But if your fasting glucose is over 100, you have a 10% to 15% chance of getting diabetes in the next seven years...
...appointments in the summer of 2002 as a way to combat a backlog of 17,000 patients waiting to be inducted into its primary-care system. Today that waiting list hovers at about 100, and the group model is being extended to Veterans Health Administration centers around the country. Endocrinologist David Shewmon started group appointments in his Wooster, Ohio, practice last January and has reduced the wait time for a follow-up appointment from six months to about a week. In Kalamazoo, Mich., internist Ed Millermaier can get you in for a shared physical next week, but if you want...
...think that we are a little unfair to men," says Mirjam Mol, vice president of Organon's reproductive-medicine program. "The men in our study are very motivated." Will women trust men to take their medicine? Says Dr. Regine Sitruk-Ware, an endocrinologist at the Population Council, an international reproductive-research organization: "Really, it's for reasonable people in a stable relationship...
...debilitating diseases, including heart disease, hypertension, diabetes and cancer. The surge of obesity among children, in short, presages a global explosion of illnesses that will drain economies, create enormous suffering and cause millions of premature deaths. "This is a true health-care crisis," says Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist at the University of California, San Francisco, far bigger than severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and ultimately, he thinks, even bigger than AIDS...
...thing seems pretty clear: any future medical treatment of obesity will probably require a combination of drugs. Imagine for a moment, says Dr. Michael Schwartz, an endocrinologist at the University of Washington in Seattle, that scientists figure out a way to turn PYY into an easy-to-swallow pill, that the pill turns out to work for a wide range of people and that those who take it begin losing weight and shed, say, 5% to 8% of their body weight. At that point, some of the other hormones that affect long-term weight control, such as leptin and insulin...