G roup care is a clinical-pedagogic model in which traditional routine visits are substituted by sessions of group education. This approach improves quality of life and metabolic control in patients with type 2 diabetes (1) but only quality of life in those with type 1 diabetes (2). The latter must match multiple daily insulin administrations with blood glucose monitoring, dietary intake, and e...

OBJECTIVE Carbohydrate counting is an effective approach to mealtime insulin adjustment in type 1 diabetes but has not been rigorously assessed in type 2 diabetes. We sought to compare an insulin-to-carbohydrate ratio with a simple algorithm for adjusting the dose of prandial insulin glusiline. RESEARCH AND DESIGN METHODS This 24-week, multicenter, randomized, controlled study compared two al...

Materials and methods An analytical cross-sectional study with a convenience sample consisted of 23 individuals with type 1 diabetes, who needed Intensive insulin therapy and were treated at a public health unit in which carbohydrate counting was used in the treatment. Through interviews, information on socioeconomic data and feeding behavior was obtained. Anthropometric measurements (weight, h...

No tumor-specific tracer has yet been found for the detection of brain tumors by external scintiscanning. Glucose is a substrate in high demand by almost all tumors, and therefore an investigation was undertaken into the potential value of glucose and its analogs as tracers for brain tumors. The compounds studied were D-)1-3H)glucose, D-(1-14C)glucose, (3H)3-O-methyl-D-glucose and L-(1-14C)gluc...

BACKGROUND Diets that provoke less insulin secretion may be helpful in the prevention and management of diabetes. A physiologic basis for ranking foods according to insulin "demand" could therefore assist further research. OBJECTIVE We assessed the utility of a food insulin index (FII) that was based on testing isoenergetic portions of single foods (1000 kJ) in predicting the insulin demand e...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of flexible intensive insulin therapy (FIIT) and an automated bolus calculator (ABC) in a Danish type 1 diabetes population treated with multiple daily injections. Furthermore, to test the feasibility of teaching FIIT in a 3-h structured course. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS The BolusCal Study was a 16-week randomized, controlled, open-label, three-arm parall...