USC Westside Center for Diabetes | November 2003 Newsletter

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		USC Comes to the Westside: Event at the Regency Club

		Drugs: A potential new way to improve glucose control has some slithery beginnings.

		Welcome: Meet the center's newest endocrinologist.

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		New Support Group

		April Diabetes Updates

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	USC Comes to the Westside More than 50 guests recently visited the USC Westside Center for Diabetes for the first discussion in the “USC Comes to the Westside” scheduled series of events. The event, held at the Regency Club in Westwood on May 29, attracted a number of key leaders from the Los Angeles area. Marc B. Nathanson, co-chair of the Westside Center, welcomed guests to hear renowned experts discuss the focus of the evening, “Taming the Diabetes Epidemic: Preventing and Treating Diabetes and Heart Disease in Future Generations.” Anne Peters, M.D., director of USC Clinical Diabetes Programs and the Westside Center, introduced Thomas Buchanan, M.D., director of the General Clinical Research Center and professor of medicine, obstetrics and gynecology and physiology and biophysics at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, and Scott E. Fraser, Ph.D., director of the Biological Imaging Center and Anna L. Rosen Professor of Biology at Caltech. Buchanan illustrated how type 2 diabetes prevalence has reached epidemic proportions and talked about the ramifications associated with developing the disease. Fraser, meanwhile, demonstrated his work in heart imaging and spoke of his interest in collaborating with USC researchers. He hopes to expand his work by imaging the pancreas and abdominal area to further understand the development of type 2 diabetes. Westside Center Co-chair Lou Gonda closed the event by praising USC faculty members for their contributions and for changing and saving lives on a daily basis. Gonda also thanked attendees for their interest and support of the Westside Center and noted that the event gave attendees a special glimpse into the work ofrenowned diabetes experts, as well as a chance to speak with USC doctors on the frontlines of the battle against diabetes. Every year diabetes kills more Americans than AIDS and breast cancer combined. Health experts estimate that 17 million Americans have diabetes and another 16 million are pre-diabetic, a condition that sharply raises the risk for developing type 2 diabetes and increases the risk of heart disease by 50 percent. Type 2 diabetes has traditionally been a disease of older adulthood. Lately, though, diabetes has reached the younger adult population; and over the past decade, increased obesity has led to a diabetes epidemic in young adults and children under the age of 10. Yet, if the disease is properly managed (or if those at risk for diabetes adjust their lifestyle before developing the disease), patients can and do lead normal lives. That is where the USC Westside Center for Diabetes makes a difference.
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