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ISSN 1811-6515
THE SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF
Diabetes & vascular disease
Guest Editor
DR FA MAHOMED
Department of Internal Medicine,
Grey’s Hospital, Pietermaritzburg
Consulting Editors
PROF J-C MBANYA
PROF AJ BRINK
National Editorial Board
DR A AMOD
Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and
Metabolic Diseases, Life Healthcare,
Chatsmed Gardens Hospital, Durban
SR K BECKERT
Diabetes Nurse, Paarl
PROF F BONNICI
Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Health
Sciences, University of Cape Town and
President of Diabetes South Africa
PROF R DELPORT
Department of Family Medicine,
University of Pretoria
DR L DISTILLER
Director of the Centre of Diabetes
and Endocrinology, Houghton,
Johannesburg
DR F MAHOMED
Department of Endocrinology,
Grey’s Hospital, Pietermaritzburg
PROF WF MOLLENTZE
Head of the Department of Internal
Medicines, University of the Free State,
Bloemfontein
PROF CD POTGIETER
Specialist Nephrologist, University
of Pretoria and Jakaranda Hospital,
Pretoria
PROF K SLIWA
Associate Professor of Medicine and
Cardiology, Baragwanath Hospital,
University of the Witwatersrand, Johan-
nesburg
PROF YK SEEDAT
Emeritus Professor of Medicine and
Honorary Research Associate,
University of Natal, Durban
International Editorial Board
PROF IW CAMPBELL
Physician, Victoria Hospital, Kircaldy,
Scotland, UK
PROF PJ GRANT
Professor of Medicine and head of
Academic Unit of Molecular Vascular
Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and
Health, University of Leeds; honorary
consultant physician, United Leeds
Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, UK
PROF J-C MBANYA
Professor of Endocrinology, Faculty of
Medicine and Biomedical Sciences,
University of Yaounde I, Cameroon and
President-Elect, International Diabetes
Federation (2006−2009)
PROF N POULTER
Professor of Preventive Cardiovascular
Medicine, Imperial College, School of
Medicine, London, UK
DR H PURCELL
Senior Research Fellow in Cardiology,
Royal Brompton National Heart and
Lung Hospital, London, UK
VOLUME 8 NUMBER 2 • JUNE 2011
www.diabetesjournal.co.za
CONTENTS
Editorials
51
Women and diabetes
FA Mahomed
52
Taking women into the new millennium: updated guidelines for prevention
of cardiovascular disease
N Rapeport
Reviews
54
Diabetes care in pregnancy
RR Green-Thompson
58
An approach to urinary incontinence in the diabetic female
TD Naidoo
62
Prevalence of cardiovascular disease and risk biomarkers in patients with
unknown type 2 diabetes visiting cardiology specialists: results from the
DIASPORA study
T Schondorf, G Lübben, E Karagiannis, E Erdmann, T Forst, A Pfützner
67
Weight management in overweight and obese patients with type 2 diabetes
mellitus
J Kyrou, S Kumar
Ethics Focus
74
Diabetes in pregnancy: ethical considerations
MJ Titus
Current Topics
76
Surgical interventions to correct metabolic disorders
R Lahsen, M Berry
Diabetes Personality
80
Diabetes education – well worth doing and worth doing well
