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Health Encyclopedia: Type 2 Diabetes

Long-Term Complications

Patients with diabetes have higher mortality rates than nondiabetics regardless of sex, age, or other factors. Heart disease and stroke are the leading causes of death in these patients. All lifestyle and medical efforts should be made to reduce the risk for these conditions.

People with type 2 diabetes are also at risk for nerve damage (neuropathy) and abnormalities in both small and large blood vessels (vascular injuries) that occur as part of the diabetic disease process...

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Expert & Community Posts

Back on Coumadin

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...that I could save one hundred dollars by using the generic drug, which cost only $20 for a... Read more »

Generic Wellbutrin: A Less Effective Alternative?

By Deborah Gray , Health Expert

I've been taking Wellbutrin (generic name Bupropion) for about seven years, minus the time I was... Read more »

Debunking Cholesterol Treatments: A Consumer's Review

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As a heart health consumer advocate, my two favorite activities are exposing fraudulent heart... Read more »

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Health Guide

Type 1 Diabetes

...are considered safe if used with extra care.Fibrates, such as gemfibrozil (Lopid) and fenofibrate (Tricor), are usually the first choice. Niacin has the most favorable effect on raising HDL and... Read more »

Peripheral Artery Disease and Intermittent Claudication: Reducing Heart Risk Factors

...triglycerides. Gemfibrozil (Lopid) is the standard fibrate. Newer fibrates, including fenofibrate (Tricor) and bezafibrate (Bezalip), may be more effective in lowering cholesterol than... Read more »

Gallstones and Gallbladder Disease: Risk Factors

...increasing the amount of cholesterol secreted into the bile. They include gemfibrozil (Lopid), fenofibrate (Tricor), and bezafibrate (Bezalip). (Other cholesterol-lowering agents do not have this... Read more »

Cholesterol Treatment and Drugs

...day, 30 minutes before breakfast and before the evening meal. Newer fibrates, including fenofibrate (Tricor) and bezafibrate (Bezalip), may be more effective in lowering cholesterol than... Read more »

Epilepsy: Highlights

...form as add-on therapy for adult treatment of partial-onset seizures.Topiramate (Topamax) approved as generic drug.Anti-Epileptic Drugs and Birth DefectsValproate (Depakene, Depakote) has a... Read more »

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