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Gender gap seen in treating diabetics for dyslipidemia.(Clinical Rounds)
LOS ANGELES -- Women with type 2 diabetes may be treated for dyslipidemia less aggressively than men, and therefore may be at higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease, Dr. Quyen Ngo-Metzger reported at the annual meeting of the Society of General Internal Medicine.
Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a leading cause of death among women and among all patients with type 2 diabetes. Diabetes confers a four times greater risk of CHD in women, compared with a doubling of risk in men, said Dr. Ngo-Metzker, of the University of California, Irvine.
She and her associates examined quality of care in a sample of 4,879 men and 7,654 women with type 2 diabetes (mean age 56 years) who were treated at 16 Kaiser Permanente Georgia practices in 2002. About two-thirds of men and women received recommended bemoglobin [A.sub.1c] and cholesterol testing. About one-quarter of men (25%) and women (27%) achieved glycemic control (a hemoglobin [A.sub.1c] value of less than 7%).
Overall, 72% of men and 68% of women achieved LDL-cholesterol levels of less than 130 mg/dL; this difference was deemed statistically significant. After adjustment for age and comorbid ...
- 'Spider-Man' gets online sales boost.(Brief Article)
- Newspaper article from: Screen Digest May 1, 2002 700+ words
...Columbia-TriStar's blockbuster hit Spider-Man (see Arachnid movie has legs, yes eight...thousands of tickets already, putting Spider-Man in its top five best ticket sellers of all...opening weekend ticket sales for Spider-Man were the highest ever in the company's...
- Blockbusters threatened by online piracy.(Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the...
- Newspaper article from: Screen Digest May 1, 2002 700+ words
...reached an estimated 1m viewers, despite release date being set for later in month. Similar concerns were raised over Spider-Man, though box-office coups have dispelled theories of lost ticket revenue in that case (see Arachnid movie has legs, yes eight...
- New free German TV channel launched.(Tele 5 Channel introduced by Tele Munchen,...
- Newspaper article from: Screen Digest May 1, 2002 700+ words
...in Germany after KirchMedia, but it has reduced its interest in the broadcast market in recent years. It sold its stake in women's interest channel TM3 to News Corporation last year. That stake has since been taken over by ProsiebenSat1 Media's Sat...
- Fewer US acting roles as producers decamp.
- Newspaper article from: Screen Digest July 1, 2002 700+ words
...a drop of 9.3 per cent. Hardest hit were supporting actors. Of roles cast, men accounted for 62 per cent and worked nearly twice as many filming days as women. There was also a drop in roles offered to African Americans--14.4 per cent...
- NTT in `super high definition' d-cinema demo. (Technical developments).(digital...
- Newspaper article from: Screen Digest July 1, 2002 700+ words
...organised for NTT (Japan; +81/3 5205 5111; www.ntt.co.jp/index_e.html) by Digital Electronic Cinema Incorporated (DECI), which is looking to challenge Technicolor, Kodak and Boeing in the digital cinema middle-man field.
- German film group launches low-budget arm. (Finance & Business).(Brief Article)
- Newspaper article from: Screen Digest June 1, 2002 700+ words
...International (Germany; +49/30 880 91700; www.senatorfilm.de) is creating a horror label with US producer of current Spider-Man movie, Sam Raimi. Intention is to tap current projects and young talent to create relatively low-budget horror, sci-fi...
- Australia rules in favour of `mod-chip'. (Law & Regulation).
- Newspaper article from: Screen Digest August 1, 2002 700+ words
...imported games and playback of copied discs. Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)--consumer watchdog and man's representative as `friend to the court'--welcomed decision against practice of releasing games in different formats...
- Macrovision wins copy-protection patent. (Technical developments).(for a method...
- Newspaper article from: Screen Digest August 1, 2002 700+ words
...extensible and broad-based standard suitable for other optical media such as DVD--Columbia-TriStar Home Entertainment has just licensed this technology to protect such forthcoming DVD home video releases as Spider-Man and Men in Black II.