D iabetes mellitus is a common chronic disease that is characterized and defined by an elevated glucose level and that has grown in prevalence by 75% in the United States during a 20-year period ending in 2010. 1 The exact reason for this rising prevalence is not known with certainty; however, a large body of evidence implicates changes in weight, caloric consumption, reduced physical activity,...

conclusions headaches, particularly migraine without aura, are a common occurrence in pregnancy in our population. migraine severity is positively associated with high blood glucose levels. results the headache prevalence during pregnancy was 69% in the women with diabetes and 64% in the women without diabetes. a positive unilateral distribution was observed in 51% of the cases and 36.3% of the...

88 Journal of Diabetes Nursing Volume 19 No 3 2015 AS diabetes professionals, we face a daily dilemma: how do we keep up with all the new research relating to diabetes care? Like all the other information we are subjected to, we filter out what is useful and what is not. Thankfully, the Internet helps us to pinpoint research of interest with a few clicks of the mouse. It was on the Internet tha...