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Pay for Performance: The Train Has Left the Station, but Where Is It Taking Us?
Pay for Performance: The Train Has Left the Station, but Where Is It Taking Us?
Dr. Carolyn Clancy, Director of the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, explains how the pay-for-performance strategy brings quality and safe healthcare to Americans.
Medscape General Medicine™
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Benefits of Exercise for Diabetics
In people with type II diabetes, exercise may improve insulin sensitivity and assist in lowering elevated blood glucose levels into the normal range.
Here's how. When you exercise, your body uses more oxygen -- as much as 20 times more -- and even more in the working muscles, than when you are at rest. So the muscles use more glucose to meet their increased energy needs.
At the same time, exercise improves the action of insulin in the peripheral muscles, making it more efficient, so you get more out of the insulin your body is producing.
In older people with diabetes, the decrease in insulin sensitivity that comes with aging is also partly due to a lack of physical activity. So regular exercise benefits you now, and for years to come. |
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