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South African Journal of
Diabetes and Vascular Disease
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Diabetes News
Patient Support
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No child should die from diabetes
Drug Trends in Diabetes
85
Diabetes myth-busters: A Novo Nordisk-sponsored education symposium
JL Aalbers, P Wagenaar
Supplements
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Report on the first international symposium, Integrated Approach to Disease
Management: Endocrinology and Metabolic Disorders, Middle East, Russia
and Africa
Cape Town, 6–7 March 2010
S9
International Global Diabetes Update:
Recent advances in insulin treatment in type 2 diabetes mellitus
hosted by sanofi-aventis in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban and Cape Town
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The problem of irregular heart rhythm and beating to a different drum needs to be
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addressed. This review on atrial fibrillation shows how to get the drummer back on form
(page 56)
This issue concentrates on how to keep the vasculature of the diabetic patient in good
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shape, with good blood pressure management, and blood lipid and glucose control.
Young children with diabetes are entitled to the best support money can provide.
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