31.   The recommendation does not include diabetic patients undergoing such a procedure for the second time because the study did not look at this group.

32.   The recommendation concerns the use of coronary bypass surgery as an initial treatment for coronary artery disease among drug-dependent diabetic patients.

33.   A sizable number of diabetic patients with kidney disease or heart failure are inappropriately prescribed a common drug that could potentially kill them, a new study suggests.

34.   Especially encouraging, Smith said, is the fact they seem to work in unusually small arteries and in those of diabetic patients.

35.   The findings give doctors a new reason to recommend exercise to diabetic patients, the report said.