Original Research:

   Clinical Care/Education/Nutrition:

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

Henrik Wagner, Marie Degerblad, Anders Thorell, Jonas Nygren, Agneta Ståhle, Jeanette Kuhl, Torkel B. Brismar, John Öhrvik, Suad Efendic, and Peter N. Båvenholm
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1471-1477. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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)

Robert H. Knopp, Michael d’Emden, Johan G. Smilde, Stuart J. Pocock on behalf of the ASPEN Study Group
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1478-1485. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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

Eric S. Kilpatrick, Alan S. Rigby, and Stephen L. Atkin
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1486-1490. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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

Vincent Rigalleau, Catherine Lasseur, Christelle Raffaitin, Caroline Perlemoine, Nicole Barthe, Philippe Chauveau, Christian Combe, and Henri Gin
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1491-1495. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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

Takeshi Oomichi, Masanori Emoto, Tsutomu Tabata, Tomoaki Morioka, Yoshihiro Tsujimoto, Hideki Tahara, Tetsuo Shoji, and Yoshiki Nishizawa
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1496-1500. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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

Lu Qi, James B. Meigs, Simin Liu, JoAnn E. Manson, Christos Mantzoros, and Frank B. Hu
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1501-1505. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Epidemiology/Health Services/Psychosocial Research:

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

Philip M. Clarke, Judit Simon, Carole A. Cull, and Rury R. Holman
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1506-1511. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Emerging Treatments and Technologies:

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

Kylie Yates, Abul Hasnat Milton, Keith Dear, and Geoffrey Ambler
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1512-1517. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Pathophysiology/Complications:

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

Mark Davies, Sinead Brophy, Rhys Williams, and Ann Taylor
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1518-1522. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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

Beatriz Y. Salazar-Vazquez, Marcos Intaglietta, Martha Rodríguez-Morán, and Fernando Guerrero-Romero
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1523-1528. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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

Vera Novak, David Last, David C. Alsop, Amir M. Abduljalil, Kun Hu, Lukas Lepicovsky, Jerry Cavallerano, and Lewis A. Lipsitz
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1529-1534. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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

Betty A. Maddux, Adelene Chan, Lawrence J. Mandarino, Ira D. Goldfine, and Elena A. De Filippis
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1535-1537. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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

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
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1538-1544. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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

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
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1545-1553. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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

Juris J. Meier, Alexandra E. Butler, Ryan Galasso, and Peter C. Butler
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1554-1559. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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

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
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1560-1566. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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

Giuseppina Imperatore, Yiling J. Cheng, Desmond E. Williams, Janet Fulton, and Edward W. Gregg
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1567-1572. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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

Mohsen Janghorbani, Diane Feskanich, Walter C. Willett, and Frank Hu
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1573-1578. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Cardiovascular and Metabolic Risk:

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

Simin Liu, Hyon K. Choi, Earl Ford, Yiqing Song, Anna Klevak, Julie E. Buring, and JoAnn E. Manson
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1579-1584. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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

Iris Shai, Rui Jiang, JoAnn E. Manson, Meir J. Stampfer, Walter C. Willett, Graham A. Colditz, and Frank B. Hu
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1585-1590. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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

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
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1591-1598. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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

Fida Bacha, Rola Saad, Neslihan Gungor, and Silva A. Arslanian
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1599-1604. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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

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
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1605-1612. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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

Muhammad A. Abdul-Ghani, Ken Williams, Ralph DeFronzo, and Michael Stern
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1613-1618. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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)

Celine Droumaguet, Beverley Balkau, Dominique Simon, Emile Caces, Jean Tichet, Marie Aline Charles, Eveline Eschwege, and the DESIR Study Group
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1619-1625. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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)

Christian Herder, Hans Hauner, Burkhard Haastert, Karin Röhrig, Wolfgang Koenig, Hubert Kolb, Sylvia Müller-Scholze, Barbara Thorand, Rolf Holle, and Wolfgang Rathmann
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1626-1631. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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

Keiko Asao, W.H. Linda Kao, Kesha Baptiste-Roberts, Karen Bandeen-Roche, Thomas P. Erlinger, and Frederick L. Brancati
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1632-1637. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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

Duk-Hee Lee, In-Kyu Lee, Kyungeun Song, Michael Steffes, William Toscano, Beth A. Baker, and David R. Jacobs, Jr
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1638-1644. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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

Peter E.H. Schwarz, Gordon W. Towers, Sabine Fischer, Suresh Govindarajalu, Jan Schulze, Stephan R. Bornstein, Markolf Hanefeld, and Francis Vasseur
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1645-1650. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Brief Reports:

   Clinical Care/Education/Nutrition:

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

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
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1651-1653. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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

Steven T. Johnson, Linda J. McCargar, Gordon J. Bell, Catrine Tudor-Locke, Vicki J. Harber, and Rhonda C. Bell
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1654-1655. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Should Group Education Classes Be Separated by Type of Diabetes?

Arlene Smaldone, Om P. Ganda, Sheila McMurrich, Keri Hannagan, Susan Lin, A. Enrique Caballero, and Katie Weinger
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1656-1658. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Pathophysiology/Complications:

The Relationship Between Diabetes and Infectious Hospitalizations in Renal Transplant Recipients

M. Cecilia Lansang, Linan Ma, Jesse D. Schold, Herwig-Ulf Meier-Kriesche, and Bruce Kaplan
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1659-1660. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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

Barbara Kollerits, Martin Auinger, Veronika Reisig, Thomas Kästenbauer, Arno Lingenhel, Karl Irsigler, Rudolf Prager, and Florian Kronenberg
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1661-1663. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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

Jang Yel Shin, Young Goo Shin, and Choon Hee Chung
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1664-1666. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Absence of Sexual Dimorphism in the Symptomatic Responses to Hypoglycemia in Adults With and Without Type 1 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
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1667-1669. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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

Kayo Waki and Paul I. Terasaki
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1670-1672. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Cardiovascular and Metabolic Risk:

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

Johan Sundström, Erik Vallhagen, Ulf Risérus, Liisa Byberg, Björn Zethelius, Christian Berne, Lars Lind, and Erik Ingelsson
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1673-1674. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Reviews/Commentaries/ADA Statements:

   Review Articles:

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

Richard H. Glazier, Jana Bajcar, Natalie R. Kennie, and Kristie Willson
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1675-1688. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Commentary:

Does the Metabolic Syndrome Exist?

Scott M. Grundy
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1689-1692. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

The Metabolic Syndrome (Emperor) Wears No Clothes

Richard Kahn
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1693-1696. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

   ADA Statement:

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

Robert H. Eckel, Richard Kahn, Rose Marie Robertson, and Robert A. Rizza
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1697-1699. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Perspectives on the News:

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

Zachary T. Bloomgarden
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1700-1706. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Editorials:

Glucose Variability and Complications

Geremia B. Bolli
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1707-1709. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters: Observations:

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

Sabine Baillot-Rudoni, Dominique Apostol, Geneviève Vaillant, Jean-Marcel Brun, Eric Renard on behalf of the EVADIAC Study Group
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1710. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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

Damla Goksen, Sukran Darcan, Muammer Buyukinan, and Emine Kurt
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1710-1711. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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

Daniel B. Costa and Mark S. Huberman
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1711. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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

Satomi Mizuhashi, Keigo Nakamura, Yasumichi Mori, Mitsuhiko Noda, and Koji Nakanishi
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1711-1712. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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

Babak Yazdani-Biuki, Thomas Mueller, Hans-Peter Brezinschek, Josef Hermann, Winfried Graninger, and Thomas C. Wascher
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1712-1713. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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

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
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1713-1714. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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

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
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1714. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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

Theodoros Loizou, Stavros Pouloukas, Charalambos Tountas, Anastasia Thanopoulou, and Vasilios Karamanos
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1714-1715. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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

Rachel S. Dankner, Angela Chetrit, and Uri Goldbourt
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1715-1716. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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

Mehmet Kanbay, Timucin Aydogan, Rifat Bozalan, Ayse Isik, Burak Uz, Arif Kaya, and Ali Akcay
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1716-1717. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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

Tsukasa Nakamura, Takeshi Sugaya, and Hikaru Koide
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1717. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

The Prevalence and Management of Diabetes in Rural India

Clara K. Chow, P. Krishnam Raju, Rama Raju, K. Srinath Reddy, Magnolia Cardona, David S. Celermajer, and Bruce C. Neal
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1717-1718. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters: Comments and Responses:

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

Alan W. Barclay and Jennie C. Brand-Miller
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1718-1719. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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

Jeanne M. McCaffery, Biing-Jiun Shen, John F. Todaro, and Raymond S. Niaura
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1719-1720. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

A Single Factor Underlies the Metabolic Syndrome: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis: Response to McCaffery 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
Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1720. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Errata:

Erratum

Diabetes Care 2006 29: 1723. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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