The effect of food access on type 2 diabetes control in patients of a New Orleans, Louisiana, clinic.

Background: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) classifies numerous neighborhoods in New Orleans, Louisiana, as food deserts or areas with inadequate access to good quality foods.

Appraising quantitative research in health education: guidelines for public health educators.

Many practicing health educators do not feel they possess the skills necessary to critically appraise quantitative research. This publication is designed to help provide practicing health educators with basic tools helpful to facilitate a better understanding of quantitative research. This article describes the major components- title, introduction, methods, analyses, results, and discussion sections-of quantitative research.

Pharmacotherapy of type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Objective: To review the drug treatments and some of the popular, nontraditional remedies now available for type 2 diabetes mellitus, as well as selected investigational agents; to describe each medication's place in the overall approach to treatment.

Data Sources: English-language journals, abstracts, review articles, and newspaper accounts.

Data Synthesis: In the past five years, there has been tremendous progress in the pharmacotherapy of diabetes, particularly type 2 diabetes.

Establishing community pharmacy-based anticoagulation education and monitoring programs.

Objective: To determine the process for establishing community pharmacy-based anticoagulation education and monitoring programs using fingerstick capillary whole blood testing.

Design: Pilot community-based intervention study using convenience sample of patients.

Setting: Three community pharmacies with pre-established health education centers and laboratories certified for moderate complexity.

Metformin, a promising oral antihyperglycemic for the treatment of noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.

Noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus has historically been treated with diet therapy alone or the addition of an oral hypoglycemic agent such as a sulfonylurea, or the two in combination with insulin. Although these medical interventions lower blood glucose concentrations, they may also potentiate hyperinsulinism through increased serum insulin concentrations. Insulin resistance and hyperinsulinism are associated with cardiovascular risk factors such as hypertriglyceridemia, decreased high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels, hypertension, and hyperglycemia, among others.