Type 2 Diabetes Linked to Worse Mental Outcomes After Stroke
By Serena Gordon
HealthDay Reporter
THURSDAY, May 14, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Memory and thinking skills are generally worse after a stroke for people with type 2 diabetes compared to people with normal blood sugar levels or prediabetes, new research suggests.
"We found that diabetes, but not prediabetes, is associated with poorer cognitive performance in every aspect of cognition tested," said study lead author Jessica Lo. She's a research associate from the University of New South Wales Sydney's Center for Healthy Brain Aging in Australia. Prediabetes is a condition in which blood sugar levels are higher than normal, but not yet high enough to be considered type 2 diabetes.
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7 Leadership Traits For the Post Covid-19 Workplace
Dana Brownlee, Senior Contributor, Forbes
COVID-19 has not just changed the world but also changed the DNA of our workplace ecosystem in many ways. Our leaders must change as well to lead effectively in this new era. If this pandemic experience has taught us anything, it’s that leadership matters and for many organizations facing decidedly fragile futures, it may matter now more than ever as the country tries to emerge from forced hibernation and rebuild a broken economy. Throughout this tragedy, we’ve witnessed certain leadership traits and approaches that may have made the difference between life and death. Similarly, our organizations will require distinct leadership traits to restore and revive stressed and flailing supply chains, product lines, even entire industries.
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Will COVID-19 Change the Workplace?
By Dennis Thompson
HealthDay Reporter
TUESDAY, May 19, 2020 (HealthDay News) --White-collar employees heading back to the office after months of sheltering at home are likely to find a drastically changed workplace in the wake of COVID-19, experts say.
Until now, offices have been designed primarily around business needs, with some nods toward fire safety, said Nellie Brown, director of workplace health and safety programs at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
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Who Lives? Who Dies?
How COVID-19 has revealed the deadly realities of a racially polarized America.
By Linda Villarosa for the New York TImes
When the Krewe of Zulu parade rolled out onto Jackson Avenue to kick off Mardi Gras festivities on Feb. 25, the party started for black New Orleans. Tens of thousands of people lined the four-and-a-half-mile route, reveling in the animated succession of jazz musicians, high-stepping marching bands from historically black colleges and universities and loose-limbed dancers dressed in Zulu costumes, complete with grass skirts and blackface makeup, an homage to the Zulu people of South Africa and, for some, a satirical spit in the eye to the past, when Mardi Gras was put on by clubs of white men who barred black people from taking part.
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EDUCATION
What you need to know about COVID-19 if you have diabetes.
Harvard Medical School/Harvard Medical Blog
Robert Gabbay, MD, PhD, FACP
Contributor
Preliminary data from China suggest that people with diabetes and other preexisting conditions are more likely to experience serious complications and death from COVID-19 than people without diabetes and other conditions.
But COVID-19 and the coronavirus that causes it are new, and researchers are still investigating how they impact immunity. We also know that if a person has diabetes and gets influenza or another infection, they can experience worse health outcomes. The question is why.
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The "Quarantine 15":Weight Gain During COVID-19 Pandemic
Life in lockdown has disrupted all our lives, creating the perfect setup for putting on pounds.
By Debbie Koenig
May 24, 2020 -- Life in lockdown has disrupted all our lives, creating the perfect setup for putting on pounds. While social media users jokingly refer to it as the “Quarantine 15,” Rae Brager estimates she's gained about 8 pounds since her quarantine started.
“When this all started, I thought, 'Oh, maybe I'd better get some junk food because we'll be bored and freaked out and it's good to have comfort food,'” says Brager, 40, a pediatrician and mom of two in Toronto. “That ballooned, and now it's around and available. None of my pants fit.”
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ADVOCACY
By Becky Bowers-Lanier
In the spring of 2020, COVID has become our all-encompassing companion. It’s with us whether we’re at home sheltered, at work as essential providers, and even when we’re out getting exercise or essentials and hopefully wearing face coverings, washing our hands, and maintaining a six-foot distance from others.
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UPCOMING EVENTS and RESOURCES
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All the Mental Health Resources You Might Need During COVID-19.
Stanford Medicine
ECHO Diabetes in the Time of COVID-19
Every Wednesday from 12:00-1:15 ET
A series of 16 free Continuing Medical Education (CME) accredited webinars offering specialty support for primary care providers when addressing the needs of patients with T1 and T2 diabetes during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
FMI
The CDC is announcing two new suites of materials to help your organization better promote the lifestyle change program to key audiences. These materials are simple, easy-to-use templates that you can customize with your program’s information. For each suite, you can choose a combination of materials that works best for your organization.
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Promotional Materials for Employers and Insurers are designed to encourage employers and insurers to cover the program as a health benefit if they are not already, offer the program at the worksite, or promote the program to their employees at a community site.
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