According to the New England Journal of Medicine, and the American Medical Association, using a program like SugarStats will reduce the complications associated with diabetes by as much as 40%.

Volcano, Hawaii - Marston Alfred, founder and chief architect of SugarStats.com, himself a diabetic since he was 9 years old, has developed a web based self-management application in which users can track, manage and monitor the most essential and important of their diabetic information online. Through a user-friendly web interface using the latest in web and information technology, SugarStats.com also enables the Diabetic to selectively provide friends, family, educators and health care professionals ‘read only’ access to their statistics. Primary elements affecting blood sugar levels including medication, food intake and physical activity are addressed in a manner that is not overly complex or too feature rich, enabling the end user to expediently self-manage via the Internet and Internet-enabled mobile devices. The core of this system will be available free to the public.

20.8 million people, approximately 7.0% of the U.S. population, have diabetes. Diabetes was the sixth leading cause of death listed on U.S. death certificates in 2002. The prevalence of diabetes is increasing at an alarming rate, as are the associated personal and societal costs, including long-term complications such as blindness, kidney damage, cardiovascular disease and lower-limb amputations. Further studies show diabetes and its complications cause substantial loss in quality of life, are the fourth most frequent reason for ambulatory physician visits, and incur $132 billion dollars in U.S. health care expenditures, directly and indirectly annually. There is now abundant evidence that complications of diabetes are preventable.

According to Dr. IM Stratton, Al Adler, HA Neil, et al, management of glycemia in diabetes is crucially important to the prevention of both acute and long-term complications. In general, every percentage point drop in A1C blood test results (e.g., from 8.0% to 7.0%) reduces the risk of micro-vascular complications (eye, kidney, and nerve diseases) by 40%. When programs like SugarStats were used regularly by the diabetic, they showed an average of a 1 point drop in the A1C levels.

Web-based tools have been emerging as effective methods for lowering HbA1C levels and several other key health markers in diabetics such as blood pressure however, to date, none have been available to the public. SugarStats.com provides a proven means to substantially lower these important health markers while also supporting the important opportunity to shift the focus of diabetes management toward patient self-management.

Alfred was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes as a child. He always felt dissatisfied and uninspired with the various ways to monitor and track his blood sugar levels and trends, finding them either over complicated and involved, or pedantic and & ‘boring’. Now 24 years old, Alfred’s professional expertise in the field of computers, networking and Internet technology/programming provided the foundation from which he developed for himself an engaging, informative, time saving and means to effectively address his diabetic management needs. From his personal quest, SugarStats.com has now emerged to support Internet-accessible diabetics the world over an alternative means to effectively address, control and ultimately improve their health.

Alternate Contact: Daerick Lanakila at dlanakila [@] sugarstats.com SugarStats POB 909 Volcano, HI 96785

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CONTACT: Marston Alfred at 619-573-4071
SugarStats
PO Box 909
Volcano, HI 96785
http://www.sugarstats.com

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Donna Bogatin of ZDNET.com wrote an interesting article about using a MySpace social network type style for online campaignin. Enjoy!

Edition number 28 in this Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics” MySpace is a hotly contested virtual battleground in “User Generated Politics” presidential campaign 2008. 

Barack Obama is en route to a landslide victory over Hillary Clinton in the MySpace friends contest: Obama 55,674 friends versus Clinton 26,702 friends. Maya, pictured, is one of the happy 55,674 MySpace friends in the Obama camp.

Why does Obama have more than twice the MySpace friends than Clinton? Are Obama’s positions on the issues favored more than Clinton’s positions among MySpacers, or is he a much better social networker than Clinton?  

The Obama MySpace profile speaks directly to MySpacers, encouraging friends: 

Who I’d like to meet:

Over 50,000 unsolicited friend requests! I’m inspired by the overwhelming support for Illinois Senator Barack Obama. If your friend request hasn’t been approved yet, be patient! All friend requests will be approved : )

The Clinton MySpace profile, on the other hand, favors the promotion of dozens of third-party Website links about Clinton and the Democratic party.

John Edwards calls his MySpace friends “Pals.” He has 12,319 of them (John Edwards: Be my MySpace pal!)

What about Joe Biden? His campaign is picking up “User Generated Politics” steam (slowly), at MySpace.

One month ago I asked, “Joe Biden has 226 MySpace friends: Can he connect?” Since then, Biden has connected with 366 more MySpacers: Biden now counts 592 MySpace friends!

Republican candidates are trailing the Democrats overall at MySpace, big time:

Rudy Giuliani, 928 friends
John McCain, 340 friends
Mitt Romney, 308 friends

DOES IT MATTER?