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| Haymarket, VA 20169 |
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Press Release - 04/16/09
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Cecilia Hatfield
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Mountain View Internal Medicine & Pediatrics Reaches Out to Educate
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Haymarket, VA, April 16, 2008 . Approximately 25 members of
the Lion's Club Park West gathered in Manassas this week on Tuesday, April 14
where Dr. Vipul V. Parikh, a Primary Care Physician of Mountain View Internal
Medicine & Pediatrics, addressed the audience for 20 minutes on the topic
of diabetes. His talk entitled, "Diabetes: Education on a Silent Disease"
addressed issues ranging from the epidemiology and risk factors for the disease
to screening techniques, monitoring and treatment goals for patients.
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Diabetes mellitus affects 20.8 million Americans. Diabetes is the
leading cause of non-traumatic amputations and a major cause of vision loss in
the United States. Some highlights from the talk:
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Diabetes affects 8% of the U.S. population and is a major cause of blindness,
cardiovascular disease, stroke, infections and amputations.
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Type 2 diabetes - "adult onset" accounts for 80% of diabetes
cases in this country and results from the body becoming resistant to the
effects of insulin.
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Type 1 diabetes - "juvenile onset" is less common and results
from the insulin producing cells of the pancreas being destroyed by the body's
immune system.
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Common symptoms include excessive urination and thirst, numbness or tingling in
the feet, fatigue, but many individuals will have no symptoms at all.
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Screening is performed by obtaining a fasting blood glucose level or an oral
glucose tolerance test.
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A fasting blood glucose ≥ 126 suggests that a person
has diabetes.
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A fasting blood glucose between 100-125 indicates pre-diabetes,
which carries an increased risk of developing diabetes later in life.
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The goal of treatment is to maintain a fasting blood glucose between 70-130 or a
hemoglobin
A1C < 7.0%.
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Preventing complications of diabetes involves maintaining good glucose control,
blood pressure control, cholesterol management, kidney function monitoring,
annual dilated eye exams, excellent foot care and routine immunizations.
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Dr. Parikh concluded the talk by answering some questions from the audience.
The questions reflected a great deal of insight and interest from those in
attendance. He addressed questions about the increasing rates of diabetes in
this country, discussed the role of exercise and diet control in prevention for
individuals at risk, and offered opinions on why there may be ethnic variation
in risk for developing diabetes.
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This talk was presented as part of the biweekly dinner meeting for the Lion's
Club Park West in Manassas. A summary of the talk is available at Dr. Parikh's
practice website www.mvimp.com . Dr. Parikh trained at the University of
Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, MI and Baylor College of Medicine in
Houston, TX. He practiced Primary Care Medicine for five years in Boston and
New Orleans and is a former instructor at Harvard Medical School and Tulane
Medical School. He recently moved to Haymarket, VA and has established a
primary care practice in the new Heathcote Health Center at the corner of US-15
and Heathcote Blvd. For more information about his practice, call 571-248-0167
or visit him on the third floor of the Heathcote Health Center.
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