Edmonton
Mayor Stephen Mandel helped kick off World Diabetes Awareness Month
with Alberta Diabetes Foundation, Canadian Diabetes Association and
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation at City Hall.
The Alberta Diabetes Foundation held their annual Halloween Howl on
Sunday, with both a three and five kilometre run and walk, and a 10
kilometre run around the University of Alberta campus and beyond,
starting at the Butterdome.
Staff,
residents and family members from four Chartwell Seniors Housing
residences in Calgary will be participating in the Alberta Diabetes
Foundation's Halloween Howl Walk/Run on Sunday, October 23rd.
Helly
Visser, who last year was inducted into the Canadian Masters Hall of
Fame for her incredible athletic accomplishments, will be walking at the
event alongside her husband, Keith, a stroke survivor, who currently
resides at Chartwell's Royal Park Retirement Residence.
Report
shows a need for more teamwork among patients and their health-care
providers and more effective use of medical records to aid Albertans
with getting the laboratory tests necessary to help manage and prevent
long-term complications of the disease.
According
to the Atlas, many Albertans who have diabetes are not getting the
recommended number of laboratory tests. By monitoring the frequency of
key laboratory tests along with test results in diabetes patients,
health-care practitioners can more easily make decisions about whether
to change or intensify therapy. And at a higher level, being able to
monitor these values across regions and communities in Alberta allow
health-system managers and policy makers to monitor patient populations,
identify disparities, and ultimately improve the quality of care.
Researchers
at the University of Alberta have discovered that a powerful
antioxidant found in red wine could prevent diabetes in offspring.
"Although
this is an early-phase research discovery, if it holds true in humans,
there might be a way to prevent at-risk humans from developing obesity
later in life," said U of A researcher Jason Dyck, department of pediatrics and pharmacology.
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