OBJECTIVE To determine the patient and hospital characteristics associated with severe manifestations of 'poor glycemic control'-a 'no-pay' hospital-acquired condition defined by the US Medicare program based on hospital claims related to severe complications of diabetes. DESIGN A nested case-control study. SETTING California acute care hospitals from 2005 to 2006. PARTICIPANTS All cases ...

Dietary fiber, fiber fractions, carbohydrate, glycemic index, and glycemic load were prospectively assessed five times over 18 years with a validated food frequency questionnaire in relation to breast cancer risk among 88,678 women (aged 34-59 years at baseline) in the Nurses' Health Study. Incident breast cancer occurred in 4,092 of these women between 1980 and 1998. The authors observed no ma...

Several studies argue against the association between admission hyperglycemia and adverse outcomes in infected diabetic patients. When investigating the association, it is necessary to consider preexisting hyperglycemia. The objective of this study was to assess whether stress-induced hyperglycemia, determined by the glycemic gap between admission glucose levels and A1c-derived average glucose ...

OBJECTIVE Control of blood glucose levels reduces vascular complications among people with diabetes, but less than half of the adults with diabetes in the United States are achieving good glycemic control. This study examines 1999-2002 national data on the association between race/ethnicity and glycemic control among adults with previously diagnosed diabetes. DESIGN We analyzed data from the ...

BACKGROUND Persistent suboptimal glycemic control is invariably associated with onset and progression of acute and chronic diabetic complications in diabetic patients. In Uganda, studies documenting the magnitude and predictors of suboptimal glycemic control in adult ambulatory diabetic patients are limited. This study aimed at determining the frequency and predictors of suboptimal glycemic con...

OBJECTIVE To review the literature about the pathophysiology of hyperglycemia and glycemic control in children and adults with sepsis and critical illness. SOURCES Non-systematic survey of the medical literature using MEDLINE and terms hyperglycemia, glycemic control, intensive insulin therapy, sepsis and intensive care. Articles were selected according to their relevance based on the authors...

The overall goal of this project was to create a basis of knowledge on factors in rice that can be altered to moderate starch digestion rate and lower rice glycemic index (GI), as well as to identify existing US rice genotypes with relatively low GI. To achieve this, studies were designed to investigate the relationship between amylopectin structure, its branching characteristics, and starch di...

Proposition. Let G be a group and (Gi, i ∈ I) a family of subgroups of G. If (i) for each i, j ∈ I there exists k ∈ I with 〈Gi, Gj〉 ≤ Gk, and (ii) Gi is simple for all i ∈ I, then H = ⋃ i∈I Gi is a simple subgroup of G. Proof. Choose i, j ∈ I. Observe that (ii) implies Gi, Gj 6= ∅ because the definition of a simple group excludes this possibility. Clearly, Gi is a group and a subset of 〈Gi, Gj〉...

Let G = ∗ i=1 Gi and let φ be a symmetric endomorphism of G. If φ is a monomorphism or if G is a finitely generated residually finite group, then the fixed subgroup Fix(φ) = {g ∈ G : φ(g) = g} of φ has Kurosh rank at most n.