Insider Medicine in 60 - 29 January 2008

North Carolina - caffeine, the sugar of patients with diabetes will cause instability. A study of 10 patients with type 2 diabetes, none of whom were treated with insulin showed that drinking 4 cups of coffee a day out in an 8% increase in blood sugar. The increase was most pronounced after meals, blood sugar were 9% after breakfast, 15% higher after lunch, and 26% after dinner. Copenhagen - A new study suggests detect a significant difference between 2 majorTypes of drug-eluting stents in patients with myocardial infarction and angina pectoris. In a randomized clinical study of over 2000 patients, the risk of major adverse cardiac events was about 10% in the sirolimus-eluting and paclitaxel-eluting groups. There has been no difference in the development of stent thrombosis rates. And finally, from Baltimore - A new study is to evaluate the effect of smoking on lung function in patients with cystic fibrosis illuminate how the genetics andenvironmental factors combine to influence how effectively we breathe. Researchers evaluated more than 800 volunteers found that passive smoking was decreased lung function for all measures of lung function has been connected. In addition, certain mutations in the gene determines the magnitude of the effect causes cystic fibrosis. For insiders in Medicine 60, I'm Allison Chow.

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