Diabetes

Clearinghouse Connector – July 2009

This edition of the Clearinghouse Connector provides electronic links to resources that highlight a number of issues women face in relation to diabetes.


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Overview

Diabetes: australian facts 2008

Gestational diabetes mellitus in Australia, 2005-06


Sex and gender differences

Mortality trends in men and women with diabetes, 1971 to 2000

Gender-specific epidemiology of diabetes: a representative cross-sectional study

The striking variety of gender-related aspects of diabetes

Diabetes and women’s health: evaluating progress and future needs


Pregnancy

Consensus statement on diabetes control in preparation for pregnancy

Diabetes in pregnancy: management of diabetes and its complications from preconception to the postnatal period

Reproductive health in women with diabetes: the need for preconception counselling and education

Gestational diabetes: worth finding and actively treating


Diabetes and cardiovascular disease

Heightened cardiovascular risk in diabetic women: can the tide be turned?

Lifestyle and risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes in women: a review of the epidemiologic evidence

Women, coronary artery disease and diabetes

Planning for health communities: reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes through healthier environments and lifestyles


Indigenous women

Diabetes in indigenous australians: possible ways forward


Self managment

The emotional context of self managment in chronic illness: a qualitative study of the role of health professional support in the self management of type 2 diabetes


Related websites

Diabetes Australia -Vic

Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute

Life! Taking Action on Diabetes


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