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Diabetes Therapy

Electronic monitoring can improve diabetes care

Published in Health and Medicine Week, March 8th, 2004

Simple computer technology could be instrumental in controlling the next wave of type 2 diabetes, and one expert says he is calling for "enormous behavioral changes" by doctors and patients alike to stem the tide.

"People with diabetes can 'get by,' living with their disease for years on end until they go blind in an eye or lose sensation in a foot," said David McCulloch, MD, professor of medicine at the University of Washington. McCulloch and others presented their findings at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual conference over the weekend.

McCulloch also works at the Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, where he has...

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