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Can someone explain to me why some discs are rated differently in different plastics and others not? Like the X XL is 1.0, ESP is 1.2, and Z XL is 1.5? Do they really fly different in each plastic?
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Most and disc from any company will fly differently from one plastic to another. For example Champion/Z/Opto... tend to me the most overstable for most disc. Its most noticeable in drivers then mids and putters.
Better Contact each manufacture Directly and ask them.
I wish someone would make a chart that had all the current discs out listed with a universal stability rating system
I think that there is a chart somewhere. Just can't remember where at the moment.
But even that chart uses the manufacturer's rating system.
I know the plastic type affects the stability, but I don't know the science behind it. There is probably something about the density of the plastic and it's aerodynamics. Part of it might be the difference in durability. A TI or an ESP buzzz is obviously going to maintain it's stability for far longer than an X or D model would. I haven't seen this with Discraft discs, but one Innova model that stands out to me is the Katana. I have that driver in both pro and star plastic. The pro model is more domey, and much flipper, while the star model has a much flatter top, and is crazy overstable in comparison... Like I can only really sidearm it. I'm not really sure why this is, but it's the best example I can think of with different flight characteristics from the same model in diff plastics.
Pro Katana is less stable. Star Katana (flat top) is more stable.
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Yeah, they generally do fly differently. If you have a favorite mold, buy a new disc of the same mold, same weight, but different plastic, and see how differently they fly.
You will usually see more extreme differences in the drivers since the cooling process with different plastics can cause the center to pull up and lift the outer wing. After everything comes to room temp, the z/champ plastic will often have a higher PLH. Of course, sometimes you will see the fancy plastic droop a bit as well causing a lower PLH. Which I often attribute to the super flippy lemons you hear folks talk about.
Discs are made in molds. Think of a mold like a cake pan. You take the pan and fill it with ingredients then bake it. Change the ingredients and you change the cake. Sometimes small changes in the formula can make big changes in the result. Like mixing up salt for sugar.
The mold is shot full of melted plastic and then it has to dry into its completed shape. You have seen brand new discs of the same type domey or flat or even concave. Those changes happened while the disc dried and had nothing to do with the mold.
So pump in different plastic formulas and you get different shapes and with them different flight characteristics. This is why molding a disc is part science, part art and part voodoo. Trying to make consistent discs when tiny changes matter a lot is the biggest challenge in molding and skill and experience of the molding crew make all the difference. And I mean tiny changes. Sometimes undetectable to the trained human eye.
So these differences among plastic types happen for all manufacturers and all discs. Discraft just tells you.
Thanks for the great answer Mark! I really like the fact that Discraft tells you. I have found that my Z Avenger flies straight and fades at the end of the flight while my X Avenger has a slight turn and finishes with just a slight fade. Overall a very straight flier for me. I also have noticed that my Ti Stalker is more overstable than my Z but I like that a lot because it flies dead straight into a good headwind. Same feel of the disc with different purposes.
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all-purpose flour
3/4 cup
whole wheat flour
3/4 cup
white sugar
1/4 cup
oat bran
1/4 cup
quick cooking oats
1/4 cup
wheat germ
1 teaspoon
baking powder
1 teaspoon
baking soda
1/4 teaspoon
1 cup
1/2 cup
chopped walnuts
banana, mashed
1 cup
1 tablespoon
vegetable oil
1 teaspoon
vanilla extract
Now that I've been making these muffins once a week for a few months, I figure I better update this review... First off, the recipe is easily adaptable to personal tastes or sudden lack of ingredients. Second, it tastes absolutely wonderful! (if you couldn't already tell from how often I make them...)
Changes I made: used whole wheat flour, 1/2 cup of applesauce instead of the bananas because I utterly despise bananas, 1/2 cup of brown sugar somewhat packed, 1 cup of milk with vinegar, left out the oil, added 1/2 tsp cinnamon, 1/4 tsp nutmeg, 1/4 tsp all spice, 1/2 cup of oatmeal, mixed frozen berries and Craisins.
Things to note: The type of flour you use is very important. I learned this after buying some awful whole wheat white flour from Trader Joe's. It made my muffins all dry and tough. As soon as I went back to the whole wheat flour from Fresh and Easy, they were all nice and soft and moist again. If you're going to use dried fruit, remember they tend to suck up some of that moisture, and if you use frozen fruit, they tend to add moisture (It also make your muffins look a funny swamp green if you mix leaky red and blue berries into the wet batter. Better mix it into the dry stuff first if you don't want it to look gross.)
Instead of white sugar, I use a raw sugar & sucralose 1/2 c raw & 1/4 c sucralose, grind old fashioned oats and make a flour and use only 1/4 c of A/P flour and the rest white whole wheat and oat flour to get your 1-1/2 cups, use applesauce & 1 tsp coconut oil instead of veg. oil. The taste is phenomenal.
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These are my absolute most FAVOURITE muffins! I ate 3 yesterday :) I do make some substitutions though, to *hopefully* make them a little healthier:
Only whole wheat flour (therefore 1.5 cups), 1/2 c brown sugar instead of 3/4 c white sugar, wheat bran instead of oat bran (it's all I had), pecans instead of walnuts (personal preference), applesauce instead of oil, and lemon juice/skim milk instead of buttermilk (put 1 Tablespoon lemon juice in a cup measure, fill the cup with skim milk - voila!)
I also add: 1 tsp cinnamon and 1/2 tsp nutmeg (YUM!) and 1/2 cup raspberries (in addition to the 1 cup blueberries). The raspberries make it SOOOO delicious! I rip each one in 2 or 3 pieces to spread 'em out and prevent the muffins from falling apart.
I use this as my "healthy muffin base" now - and can't wait to try all sorts of additions. Maybe next time it will be strawberries and apples? Or raisins and carrots? Maybe banana and chocolate chips? Blackberries and coconut??? The possibilities are endless! (Although I would probably cut the blackberries into smaller pieces, like the raspberries).
For those who found the recipe dry.... try more applesauce?
Happy Muffining!
I enjoy baked goods and this is among my favorites especially because of its health value. But I will note that I changed a few things according to what was available to me and maybe better.
1) instead of all-purpose flour, I used whole wheat pastry flour
2)instead of just regular blueberries, I used wild dried blueberries and dried cranberries, waiting until the batter was in the muffin cups to add them -one small spoon of blueberries and one small spoon of cranberries (the amounts each covered a half of the batter's surface in the cup) -and then mixed the berries and batter in the cups (I used a chopstick for this)
3) instead of using white granulated sugar, I used packed brown sugar in about the same amount as the granulated sugar, if not a little bit more. I did this to continue the theme of healthy ingredients and earthy flavor.
The result was an EXCELLENT muffin that in my opinion is better than some found in restaurants. The muffins are sweet, fairly light for a wheat-laden muffin and has berry in every bite.
This is the best muffin recipe ever! I'm a baker and sell these at the cafe all the time. Replacing the banana for pumpkin and the blueberries for chocolate chips also turned out freaking awesome!!!
The picture doesn't do these muffins justice - mine turned out more like bakery muffins. I increased the wheat flour to 1 cup and the quick oats to 3/4 cup in place of the germ and oatbran. I also replaced half the milk w/ light sour cream. I used large, frozen wild blueberries and didn't have a problem w/ the muffins turning green, which one reviewer mentioned. My husband was eating these for every meal until they were gone and I am now sworn to make them again! SO GOOD. * I made them again... This time I omitted the nuts and added one apple, finely chopped. Turned out great!
These muffins are awesome. I didn't know what Wheat Germ or Oat Bran was or where to find it - didn't know if I had to go to a specialty health food place or not. I found them at Kroger's in the hot cereal area. These are not items I would normally have on hand...so I'm sure there are others out there asking 'what's Wheat Germ" It's in a bottle and Oat Bran is a hot cereal in a box.
These muffins are awesome! Very moist. I tasted more banana than blueberry in it. I replaced the oil with applesauce...replacing it with the same amount asked for. That's all I did. Next time I would use 2 egg whites instead of 1 egg just for it to be a tad healthier. Definately put the nuts in if you have them.
Amazing! I am so impressed with this recipe. I was afraid they would come out dry and "healthy" tasting but they are really moist and flavorful. I made a few changes based on preference and what I had on hand: (1) I subbed applesauce for the bananas, flax meal for the wheat germ, and oats for the oat bran. (2) I added a little more than a 1/4 tsp cinnamon and 1/8 tsp nutmeg. (3) I used almost 2 cups of frozen mixed berries (blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries) and chopped them up a bit to make them distribute more evenly. These are SOOO yummy, I will certainly be making these again soon! Thanks for an awesome, healthy recipe!!
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Where is the best place online to find current average prices for steel? I need prices for sheet metal as well as prices for square tubing and angle iron somewhere in Kansas, Oklahoma, or Texas. Thanks!
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it changes all the time so its going to be difficult to get prices like that....I was recently at a supplier and he told me a while back brass prices were changing on a daily basis so the quote was only good for the day.....
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I work in Foreign Exchange Sales and Trading Technology in the New York office of Goldman Sachs. My team closely supports the trading floor and creates and enhances the technology used for both manual and electronically booked trades. We also design and implement the applications that our traders and salespeople use to monitor orders and view risk, as well as working directly with Operations to provide technology that better allows them to establish business controls.
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Lung cancer and cancer treatments can affect the body but can also have an impact on emotions, and those effects may continue long after treatment ends. You are not alone. There is support and professional assistance that can help with lingering emotional effects of a cancer diagnosis and treatments.
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Facing forward: Life after lung cancer treatment (National Cancer Institute)
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To the world it is known simply as Borneo. It's the third biggest island in the world and home to the famous gentle man of the forest—the orangutan.
To Indonesians, it is Kalimantan—the Indonesian part which makes up the majority of the island's land area. The rest of the island is diffused into Sabah and Sarawak, the provinces of Malaysian Borneo, as well as the Sultanate of Brunei.
Last year I visited these parts of Borneo, but wanted to return to explore Kalimantan and as much as I could of the other 17,000 islands that make up Indonesia.
The mere mention of Borneo is enough to excite the imagination. This is a land of headhunters, deep jungles, and dugout canoes in great rivers. It's home to the world's biggest caves, exotic wildlife, and world-class diving.
But the orangutan alone is reason enough to visit this tropical island. Although I've only seen one before in the wild, I knew that I wanted a chance to see more. The National Park at Tanjung Puting would be my destination.
Why we need to save the orangutan and the forests of Indonesia
There are only about 60,000 orangutans left in the world. Most are on Borneo, in parts of Malaysia and Indonesia, as well as on the island of Sumatra. The orangutan is one of the four great apes, along with the gorilla, the chimpanzee, and the human.
Any amount of time spent observing these fascinating creatures will reveal an uncanny array of human-like habits. It's nearly impossible to not be mesmerized by their itching, eating, yawning, and the way they take care of their young.
The biggest threat to the orangutan is the human. We continue take away their habitat by destroying the forests in favor of agriculture. The biggest culprit is oil palm plantations. Indonesia is the world's biggest producer of palm oil. �The country has already lost 75% of its original natural forest. The area used for palm oil plantations in Indonesia has expanded from 1.1 million hectares in 1991 to 4.1 million hectares in 2002. In the last 32 years, Indonesia has lost forests equivalent to the size of Germany and the Netherlands combined or approximately 65 times the size of Bali.
Orangutan also have natural enemies like the clouded leopard, the python, and the cobra, but these pose much less of a threat than we humans.
Will tourism help the Orangutan?
While we cruised upstream in our klotok (small river boat), we talked a lot about the effects of tourism on the orangutan. Although tourism continues to grow, I think it remains beneficial to the orangutan and the local economy. It's obvious that tourism raises awareness for the species and boosts employment numbers.
It's also apparent that there is a threshold for tourism numbers due to the fact that the forest and rivers are a sensitive ecosystem. For the time being, I'd say get to Tanjung Puting National Park while it's still uncrowned, accessible, and affordable.
Comparing wildlife viewing in Sabah, Malaysia to that of Kalimantan, Indonesia
Although we saw plenty of macaques, monkeys, a crocodile by accident, and millions of fireflies, the klotok journey is not intended to be a wildlife viewing trip. Its main mission is to support travelers with a bed, meals, and transport to see the orangutans.
We stopped in three different places to view the orangutan in Tanjung Puting. How did that compare with earlier visits to see the orangutan in Malaysia?
In Malaysia, I went on a wildlife viewing boat trip up the Kinabatangan River, to see a whole host of Borneo's animals. While that was excellent for seeing long-tailed macaques, civets, kingfishers, hornbills, and monitor lizards, it was not ideal for seeing orangutan in the wild. Our only orangutan spotting was from over a hundred meters away.
Indonesia's Kalimantan is the place to go to see the orangutan in the wild. The caretakers in the national park do two feedings per day. The orangutan that are either being rehabilitated or just show up out the forest for supplemental feeding can be seen chomping away at bananas and drinking milk. And simply watching this makes your whole journey to Kalimantan worthwhile.
We also saw some orangutan while walking to the feeding area and from the river while we were on the boat—also highpoints of the trip.
How you can help the Orangutan
Basically awareness is the first step. We are part of a global world and we need to understand the challenges we are facing in the 21st century. A growing population demands a larger food-supply and the land to produce this food.
International organizations like Orangutan Foundation International are dedicated to the protection of the orangutan and its habitat. Donating money is one way to help. Funds go towards the purchasing and protecting of forest and to the rehabilitation of orangutans.
During our trip we spent a day with Frederick, son of Dr. Birut� Mary Galdikas, who founded OFI and has studied the orangutan for decades. He grew up with the orangutans literally as his friends. He still has an amazing connection with them and at one point when we were on our way back from watching a feeding, one of the mother orangutans took him by the hand and sat next to him.
Visiting the Orangutan in Kalimantan is undoubtedly one of the highlights of any trip to Indonesia.
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Title: the revenge of the SHOE GOBLIN - part 14
Date: September 19, 2006
Summary: The finale of Revenge of the Shoe Goblin
Cast: Beaver, Steve, Space Raccoons, Flies, Futuristic Squid
Onomatopoeias used: "GNAW!", "HISS!", "GLOP", "POP!", "EXPLODE!", "YET MORE EXPLODE!", "SHOE!"
"Fin" style: The letters are wearing space heltmets
Number of panels: 9
Panel 1
The selfdestruction goes VOOP VOOP VOOP VOOP
Beaver: "Steve! What are you doing??"
Steve: "Uh-oh! What do I do now mr. Button?"
Button: "Hey, don't ask me, I'm just an audiotory hallucination brought on as a projection of your Freudian id"
Beaver: "Come on, we've got to get to the ship before this whole place explodes!"
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Space Raccoons have begun eating the spaceship. Flies are circling around the decomposing spaceship.
Beaver: "Akh! Space raccoons! Shoo! Shoo!"
The Space Raccoon GNAW! and HISS!
Beaver: "Quickly Steve, get aboard!"
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Beaver: "Activate retro-thrusters!"
Steve: "Retro thrsuters activated!"
Steve activates the reto thrusters with a GLOP!
Steve: "Ew"
Panel 4
The spaceship backs out of the spacestation with a POP!
Some Space Raccoons are sucked out of the still VOOP VOOP VOOP spacestation.
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The spacestation EXPLODE! EXPLODE! and YET MORE EXPLODE!
Beaver: "Oh my! Just in the nick of time too!"
Panel 6
Beaver: "Well it looks like we ..."
The giant shoe hovers in free space.
Beaver: "Goodness! Look Steve! One of the size 6,000,000,000 � shoes survived the blast!"
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The shoe is drag into earth gravity pull, plunging towars the happily looking earth.
Beaver: "Hm... And it seems to be falling into earth.."
Steve: "Don't worry Beaver, it will just burn up harmlessly in the atmosphere."
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The shoe impacts with the supires earth with a SHOE!
Steve: "Oops"
Panel 9
1 million years later...
A Future Squid teaches other Future Squids about the end The Age of Humans.
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By: Daniel Trecroci
Two new drugs have received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. In clinical trials, Avandia (rosiglitazone maleate) and ACTOS (pioglitazone hydrochloride) lowered blood sugars an average of 76 mg/dl and 95 mg/dl respectively, when compared to a placebo.
These two new competitors will vie for type 2 customers against Rezulin, which was previously the sole "glitazone" on the market. Ever since its launch in March 1997, Rezulin enjoyed incredible popularity among people with type 2 diabetes. It was recognized as one of the top 10 fasting growing pharmaceutical agents between June 1997 and June 1998, with sales of $543 million. In December 1997, however, Rezulin was withdrawn from the U.K. drug market when it was reported that six people had died from liver damage after taking the popular drug. The removal from the U.K. market prompted the first of several FDA-mandated liver monitoring guidelines. Since December 1997, there have been an additional 22 deaths reported from liver damage after taking Rezulin, and the FDA recently recommended that Rezulin be prescribed in combination therapy only.
No Liver Toxicity
In their respective clinical trials, Avandia and ACTOS demonstrated no instances of liver toxicity.
"If the clinical experience matches the clinical trial experience, then the first distinction I would make about Avandia and ACTOS is that they are safer than Rezulin," says Steven Leichter, MD, FACP, FACE, codirector of the West Georgia Center for Metabolic Disorders in Columbus, Georgia. "That would be positive because it would mean that there would not be the severe worries you have had with Rezulin."
Avandia, manufactured by SmithKline Beecham, won FDA approval on May 25 for the treatment of type 2 diabetes as both monotherapy and in combination with Glucophage. In clinical trials involving more than 2,300 patients with type 2 diabetes, an 8 mg. dose of Avandia effectively lowered blood sugar levels in patients by an average of 76 mg/dl compared to a placebo group. In addition, people achieved an average HbA1c reduction of 1.5 percentage points.
"This 76 mg/dl drop in blood sugar is impressive," says Barry Goldstein, MD, an Avandia study group investigator. "In trials of this type, it is rare to see a reduction in blood sugar levels greater than 60 mg/dl with any drug."
In a group receiving a 4 mg. dose of Avandia, blood sugar levels were reduced by an average of 58 mg/dl, while HbA1c levels dropped 1.2 percentage points.
Harold Lebovitz, professor of medicine, division of endocrinology and metabolism/diabetes at the State University of New York, calls Avandia an "important advance in the treatment of type 2 diabetes," and says the drug offers new hope for people living with this disease.
"Unlike most traditional drugs, Avandia helps the body's own insulin work more effectively, resulting in significant blood sugar control," says Lebovitz.
According to SmithKline Beecham, the usual starting dose of Avandia, when used as monotherapy, is 4 mg. per day, given as a single dose or in two divided doses. For patients who respond inadequately by 12 weeks of treatment, as determined by reduction in fasting plasma glucose, the dose may be increased to 8 mg. per day.
Combination Therapy With Glucophage
In a 26-week clinical trial of 348 patients, 8 mg. per day of Avandia, in combination with Glucophage, dropped HbA1c levels an average of 1.2 percentage points, versus Glucophage alone. Also, the Avandia and Glucophage combination demonstrated improvement in both insulin resistance and estimated beta cell function. Insulin resistance declined by an average of 20.4 percent, and estimates of beta cell function increased by an average of 94.2 percent.
"Avandia can be used alone or with [Glucophage] to produce good glucose control, and may ultimately prove beneficial in combination with other standard antidiabetic therapies such as sulfonylureas or insulin," says Alan J. Garber, MD, PhD, chief of endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism at Methodist Hospital in Houston.
On April 23, SmithKline Beecham agreed to copromote Avandia with Bristol-Myers Squibb, the maker of Glucophage.
Combined With Insulin
People combining Avandia and insulin reduced their insulin requirements by 12 percent. In a study of 319 patients whose blood sugar was not well controlled, despite taking two insulin shots a day, the addition of 8 mg. per day of Avandia produced an average decline in blood sugars of 55 mg/dl, and lowered HbA1c by an average of 1.3 percentage points. The addition of Avandia to two daily insulin shots, however, was associated with an increased frequency of hypoglycemia.
Combined with Sulfonylurea
In studies using 4 mg. per day of Avandia in combination with a sulfonylurea, patients demonstrated a 37 mg/dl reduction in blood sugars, as well as a .9 percentage point reduction in HbA1c.
Liver Toxicity
"In the study, [Avandia] appeared to be free of clinically significant liver side effects," says Lebovitz. "This could potentially eliminate the need to perform costly and routine liver function tests on patients, if additional and continuing studies do not show evidence of any significant liver toxicity."
Twenty-eight out of 1.2 million Rezulin users have died as a result of liver failure. According to spokespersons at SmithKline Beecham, Avandia is "structurally very similar to Rezulin." However, there was no incidence of liver toxicity or failure in 4,598 clinical trial subjects. Avandia labeling recommends liver monitoring before taking Avandia, and every two months during the first year of therapy.
Increases in Weight and Cholesterol Levels
Although Avandia reduced blood sugar levels, there was an average weight gain of 4 to 7 pounds over 12 months. It was also associated with increases in total cholesterol, LDL (bad cholesterol), and HDL (good cholesterol). Lebovitz explains that LDL cholesterol appears in two forms: a "light and fluffy" form and a "small and dense" form. He adds that elevations in the small and dense form appear to be more harmful to the cardiovascular system.
"The data from Avandia's clinical trials suggest that when the LDL goes up after taking the drug, it is the light and fluffy form of LDL that increases," says Lebovitz.
The FDA granted marketing approval for ACTOS on July 16, and it arrived in pharmacies last month. The approval was based on a review of data from six double-blind, placebo-controlled studies involving more than 4,500 patients with type 2 diabetes. ACTOS can be used on its own or in combination with sulfonylureas, Glucophage or insulin, for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. ACTOS will be marketed in the United States by Takeda Chemical Industries of Japan and Eli Lilly and Co.
Reductions in BGs and HbA1c
In clinical research studies, ACTOS, taken once daily in 45 mg. doses, lowered fasting blood sugar levels by as much as 94.5 mg/dl when compared to a placebo. Patients also experienced reductions in HbA1c levels by an average of 2.6 percentage points as compared to placebo.
Labeling recommends that monotherapy with ACTOS be started at 15 or 30 mg. once daily, and, if necessary, increased to 45 mg. once daily.
ACTOS and Glucophage
Researchers at Takeda say ACTOS, in combination with Glucophage, is safe and significantly improves blood sugar control. In a 16-week study conducted in Princeton, New Jersey, 328 patients with type 2 diabetes received 30 mg. per day of ACTOS in combination with their current Glucophage dosages. Researchers report that the combination improved blood sugars by 43 mg/dl and decreased HbA1c by .8 percentage points. No liver function problem was reported.
ACTOS and Insulin
In a trial of ACTOS plus insulin, 566 type 2s were randomized to receive 16 weeks of therapy with their current insulin, combined with 15 or 30 mg. per day of ACTOS, or a placebo. Researchers discovered that 15 and 30 mg. of ACTOS combined with insulin lowered blood sugar levels an average of 35 and 49 mg/dl respectively when compared to a placebo. It also reduced HbA1c by an average of .73 and 1 percentage points respectively. Like Avandia, the addition of ACTOS to daily insulin shots was associated with an increased frequency of hypoglycemia.
The potential for insulin requirement reduction, when used in combination with ACTOS, has not been determined yet. Jeffrey L. Miller, director of clinical endocrinology at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, suggests that a glitazone's insulin-sensitizing effects make it an appropriate candidate for combination therapy in patients taking insulin.
"What these glitazones do is dampen down on the beta cell function of the pancreas," he says. "They allow a lesser amount of insulin to be more effective and, in turn, cut down on the ravages of diabetes on the vascular system."
ACTOS Combined With a Sulfonylurea
Researchers conducted studies using 15 and 30 mg. per day of ACTOS in combination with a sulfonylurea. Blood sugars were reduced by 39 and 58 mg/dl respectively when compared to a placebo, and HbA1c was reduced .9 and 1.3 percentage points.
Better on the Lipids Than Avandia
Miller stresses that lower triglycerides and better cholesterol levels are major issues in type 2 treatment. ACTOS significantly decreased mean triglyceride levels and increased average HDL (good cholesterol) levels in monotherapy and in combination therapy. In contrast, no significant changes in mean total cholesterol or mean LDL (bad cholesterol) levels were seen with ACTOS when used either as monotherapy or in combination therapy.
"One of the major issues I have [with Avandia] is the unfavorable elevation in LDL cholesterol," says Miller. "I think Rezulin and ACTOS are more neutral on LDL and have the benefit on triglycerides."
Liver Toxicity
Similar to Avandia, the FDA concluded that ACTOS has no clinically significant side effects on the liver. ACTOS labeling, like Avandia, also recommends liver monitoring at baseline and every two months during the first year.
Miller warns not to get too comfortable too soon.
"It took hundreds of thousands of people on Rezulin to appreciate the significance of the liver reaction," says Miller. "I think we have to wait for the same amount of people to take Avandia and ACTOS before we can really draw any comparisons."
Symptoms of liver problems include nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and fatigue.
Public Citizen
Public Citizen, the U.S. consumer protection agency that was instrumental in exposing the liver toxicity problems related to Rezulin, has only just recently begun researching the safety of Avandia and ACTOS. According to Dr. Sydney Wolfe, director of Public Citizen, "There are hundreds of pages of data we have to review before we can make a statement."
According to pharmacists at several Walgreens throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, the maximum 8 mg. dose of Avandia costs between $145 and $150 per month. The maximum 45 mg. dose of ACTOS costs between $188 and $191 per month.
The Exodus to Avandia and ACTOS
So, will type 2s begin their exodus to this new breed of glitazones?
According to SmithKline Beecham, new prescriptions for Avandia were 64 percent higher than new prescriptions for Rezulin during its first four weeks on the market. Avandia has already generated $71 million in sales, and no liver toxicity has been reported.
The FDA still cautions physicians to regularly monitor the liver function of everyone taking Avandia and ACTOS.
The Future of Oral Therapy in Type 2 Diabetes
So is glitazone therapy the new wave of oral treatment for people with type 2 diabetes?
Leichter feels that Avandia and ACTOS present better treatment options for people with type 2 diabetes, but also emphasizes that type 2 diabetes is not a "one size fits all" disease. He feels other treatment options should not be eliminated.
"We tend to look at adult people with diabetes as all having the same class of disease," he says. "I don't think that's right. If you look at the health and lab characteristics of these patients, they vary. I don't see [Avandia and ACTOS] as being competitive with or displacing another class of drugs…I see them as offering an expanded concept of design therapy."
Lebovitz feels that monotherapy will take a back seat to combination therapy in the near future. For the time being, however, he says physicians will most likely continue starting people on monotherapy, depending on their insulin resistance or obesity, and then switch them to combination therapy when they realize the monotherapy is not working.
"We have a large number of patients who are on [Glucophage] or sulfonylureas, and still can't get good control of their BGs," says Lebovitz. "When you add a glitazone into the mix, you will get a dramatic improvement in [blood sugar] control."
Miller feels that glitazones, like Avandia and ACTOS, will displace sulfonylureas as primary treatment options in the future of type 2 diabetes.
"In practice, most physicians don't understand the whole syndrome of insulin resistance, so they're very comfortable prescribing the sulfonylureas," says Miller. "But I think, in the real world, sulfonylureas should be back-up therapy to Glucophage and the glitazones."
Leichter points to the United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study, which emphasized the need to think about complex combination therapies.
"I see [Avandia and ACTOS] as two more treatment options that we could put into the mix."


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