South African Journal of Diabetes: Diabetes and hearing loss : original
Hearing impairment has been observed in patients with diabetes mellitus for decades. It has been suggested that hearing loss in patients with diabetes is a result of microvascular complications in the...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: Editor's comment : editorial
This issue of the Journal is slated to coincide with the 17th CDE Postgraduate Forum in Diabetes Management. Typically at this annual meeting, numerous innovative concepts in diabetes care are explored...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: CDE presents a five-day Advanced Course in...
CDE presents a five-day Advanced Course in Diabetes Care for Health Professionals 2016
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: Seen at the 17th Annual CDE Postgraduate...
Seen at the 17th Annual CDE Postgraduate Forum in Diabetes Management
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: 'Blood sugars' : using drama to meet the...
'Blood Sugars' is a three-year project supported by a Wellcome Trust International Engagement Grant, which aims to improve our understanding of types 1 and 2 diabetes in an urban South African context,...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: The 17th Annual CDE Postgraduate Forum in...
The 10th Diabetes Update Symposium, a pre-CDE Forum satellite meeting sponsored by Novo Nordisk and ACCU-CHEK, took place on Friday 14th August.
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: Is sweet enough safe enough? A review on...
Sweetness is one of our 5 basic tastes and its sense is universally regarded as a pleasurable experience. Our need for sweetness is innate, but differences in our sweetness preference are likely to be...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: Brief behavioural change counselling and...
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are a major burden to the South African health system. Recent surveys indicate that 60 % of South African females and 31 % of males are overweight or obese, with...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: Current perspectives on the diagnosis and...
Type 2 diabetes is a common and increasingly prevalent, but preventable non-communicable disease. In 2014, approximately 8 % of the world's population, some 382 million people, were affected. This...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: The SGLT2 inhibitors - a review : original
The prevalence of diabetes continues to increase at a rate greater than predicted and it is now expected that by the year 2035 there will be 592 million people with diabetes globally. The majority of...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: Editor's comment : editorial
The pages of this Journal have often included updates and reviews on novel and emerging pharmacological agents used for the treatment of diabetes. This particular issue is no exception. We do however...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: Turning point : five ways point-of-care...
Laboratory tests are an essential component of patient care, but the truth is they can also be a frequent source of frustration for everyone involved, including patients, doctors, nurses and...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: LifeScan announces the launch of...
OneTouch® Zoom™ Pro, an easy to use tool that allows you to spend more time managing your patients and less time analyzing their data, through features such as Pattern Recognition and SnapShot®. The...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: Primary care physicians identify and act...
Primary care physicians (PCPs) often make therapy adjustments for non-insulin treated (NIT) type 2 diabetics (T2D) on the basis of A1c alone without considering self-monitoring blood glucose (SMBG)...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: Understanding neuropathic pain - current...
The general principles of neuropathic pain management are to individualise the pharmacologic regimen for each patient, and initiate pharmacotherapy at a low dose, especially for the elderly or those...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: The nutrition management of the...
The nutrition therapy for treating dyslipidaemia, hypertention and nephropathy, apart from protein restriction, share the same principles and recommendations. As these complications are interrelated,...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: Oral hypoglycaemic drugs in pregnancy
Historically Oral Hypoglycaemic Agents (OHAs) were contra-indicated in pregnancy on the grounds of small trials and animal studies that could not be extrapolated to humans. These studies did not...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: Understanding the development of diabetic...
The foot in diabetes is often an inching painless surprise that holds in its dark portals a soon rising flood of complications. It is a quiet dread of disability, representing a major problem for...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: Lipid management in type 2 diabetes -...
John is a 39 year old patient with type 2 diabetes for 8 years. His BMI is 32, and blood pressure is 128/75 on an ace inhibitor. He has no complications from his diabetes, specifically no...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: Screening for diabetic retinopathy at the...
Screening for disease or the complications thereof is an important aspect of primary care, relating to the need to detect treatable / communicable disease at the earliest time. Ideally screening should...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: Diabetic nephropathy
Diabetic nephropathy remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with diabetes mellitus. Diabetic kidney disease is the leading cause of chronic kidney disease in patients starting...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: Editors comment : editorial
The classic complications associated with Diabetes are typically categorized into macrovascular and microvascular. It is the latter that is the focus of this issue.. The microvascular complications...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: Merck launches SA's first online risk...
Johannesburg, South Africa, 16 February 2016 - Merck, a leading pharmaceutical and technology company, has launched the Diabetes Online Risk Assessment (DORA) programme, a nationwide initiative that...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: CDE presents a five-day advanced course in...
CDE presents a five-day advanced course in diabetes care for health professionals 2016
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: Diabetes and the older person : original
Quality of life is an important health outcome, representing the ultimate goal of all health interventions. In the literature on self-perceived quality of life, in terms of physical and mental...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: The nutritional management of the elderly....
Five years ago, Susan Modise was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Susan, 65 years old and drawing a State Pension, was brought to the practice by her neighbour who worked as a receptionist in the building.
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: Targeting smoking cessation in diabetes...
In diabetes practice, we have to regard all our patients as being at high risk for a cardiovascular event. We work to treat major risk factors to target to reduce both macrovascular and microvascular...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: Are recipients of the South African Child...
The South African Child Support Grant (CSG) was provided to 2.5 million children when it was initiated in 1998 (Aguero et al., 2006). Currently, 11 792 596 South African children receive the CSG...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: Editor's comment : editorial
As the Journal has developed over the past few years, we have been fortunate to attract much original content. This is especially true of this Issue in which we have included a most compelling piece by...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: Where to from here for diabetes? : original
Coming up for 100 years since the discovery of insulin, the future is looking bright. At the time of its discovery in 1922, insulin was hailed as a 'cure' - for sure it saved lives - millions of them,...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: Novo Nordisk holds the first new...
Diabetes is a global epidemic. Diabetes is one of the largest global health emergencies of the 21st century. Worldwide, it is a leading cause of cardiovascular disease (heart attacks and stroke),...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: CDE presents a five-day Advanced Course in...
CDE presents a five-day Advanced Course in Diabetes Care for health professionals 2016
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: Ethical issues surrounding the management...
Recent data from the South African National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (SANHANES) has shown that 70 % of women and 30 % of men are either overweight or obese (Shisana et al., 2013). Closer...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: An overview of carbohydrate counting for...
Carbohydrate counting is a component of medical nutrition therapy for diabetes management that ranges from basic carbohydrate awareness to advanced carbohydrate counting (carb counting). Carb counting...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: Testosterone in DM - friend or foe? :...
The association between hypogonadism (HG) and diabetes mellitus (DM) in males is well established. International and local data estimates that 25-50 % of men with diabetes may have HG. The aetiology of...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: Pharmaceutical treatment of obesity :...
Obesity is a serious medical disorder associated with significant morbidity and mortality. It is rapidly increasing in prevalence in all societies and countries. Complications of obesity include...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: Editor's comment
The content of this issue includes diverse topics such as hypogonadism, carbohydrate counting skills and the medical treatment of obesity. On their own, each piece that follows here is clearly a...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: CDE presents a five-day Advanced Course in...
This is an Advanced Course, and is aimed at Health Care Professionals who have a basic knowledge and understanding of diabetes mellitus. It is designed to give an extensive overview of the core...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: Medical implications of nail cosmetics :...
Frequently, patients will ask whether it is safe to use nail cosmetics while undergoing podiatry abrasion and treatment for a fungal nail infection, or in the healing period after the podiatrist has...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: 18th CDE Postgraduate Forum in Diabetes...
The Annual CDE Postgraduate Forum in Diabetes Management has become a highlight on the local continuing education calendar for diabetes care and cardiovascular risk management. As always, a hallmark of...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: Lifetime cardiovascular risk : more than...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that there are more than 17.5 million deaths from cardiovascular disease (CVD) annually. The global atlas for CVD prevention and control released by WHO in...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: Case discussion : very low calorie diets...
Historically, we believed that type 2 diabetes (T2DM) was a progressive condition, with an inevitable, gradual decrease in beta-cell function. Data from the United Kingdom Prospective Study indicated...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: Capturing the heart of diabetes...
The long-established and commonest complication, cardiovascular disease (CVD), continues to run rampant amongst those with diabetes. Adequate and timeous assessment, coupled with prophylactic...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: CDE presents a five-day Advanced Course in...
This is an Advanced Course, and is aimed at Health Care Professionals who have a basic knowledge and understanding of diabetes mellitus. It is designed to give an extensive overview of the core...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: Chronic diabetes and brain change : original
Our understanding of the impact of diabetes on organ function has been evolving since the discovery of insulin in the 1920s. Giddy with the joy of discovery, insulin was thought to be a miracle drug...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: Hypoglycaemia in type 2 diabetes increases...
In type 2 diabetes, careful control of blood glucose can help prevent or delay micro- and macrovascular complications. Initially, this may be adequately achieved with lifestyle change and oral...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: Achieving health objectives eating the...
Sunjay Naidoo who is 30 years old, works as a strategy analyst for a large accounting firm in Johannesburg. At the time of his first consultation, ten and a half years ago, he was diagnosed with type 2...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: Recognising and diagnosing cardiac...
The diabetes pandemic is spreading faster than any formulae or expert can predict. Furthermore, only one third of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) will achieve the recommended HbA1c...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: The world has gone mad! : editor's comment
Economic, political and social instability and chaos abounds. The Health Care community is not insulated from this ever-changing landscape. The incidence of Non-Communicable Disease is exploding...
View ArticleSouth African Journal of Diabetes: Chronic pain : addressing the triad of...
Epidemiological studies indicate that the increasing worldwide prevalence of chronic pain may be as high as 20-50 %. Furthermore, chronic pain is strongly associated with psychiatric comorbidities, and...
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