Traditional Treatment Methods for Diabetes

By Donald Mckenzie Jr

The American Diabetes Association estimates that diabetes accounts for over 100,000 deaths, 54,000 amputations, and over 20,000 cases of blindness each year. Blindness is twenty-five times more common among diabetic patients when compared to those without diabetes. If these current trends should continue, then by the year 2010 diabetes will exceed both heart disease and cancer as the leading cause of death in America.

Diabetics tend to have a high level of blood glucose. Blood sugar level is regulated by insulin, which releases it to carbohydrate consumption. Insulin causes the cells of the body to absorb glucose from the blood. The glucose is then used as fuel for cellular functions.

Traditional diagnostic standards for diabetes have been plasma glucose levels greater than 140 milligrams on 2 occasions as well as plasma glucose greater than 200 milligrams following a 75 gram glucose load. Even more recently, the American Diabetes Association lowered the criteria for a diabetic diagnosis to plasma glucose levels equal to or greater than 126 milligrams. Plasma levels outside the normal limit will need further testing. This is done usually by repeating the plasma glucose check and initiating an oral glucose tolerance test if it is needed.

The many symptoms of diabetes include increased urination, increased thirst and hunger, sudden drastic weight loss, blurred vision, very slow healing of wounds, dry and itchy skin, constantly repeated infections, sudden fatigue and headaches. With respect to diabetes, these symptoms can also be caused by many other factors. It is highly encouraged that anyone with symptoms related to the ones mentioned above should be tested as soon as possible.

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Microsoft Dynamics Gp 10.0 Reporting - Traditional And New Tools

By Andrew Karasev

Microsoft Great Plains version 10.0 was released in Summer 2007. If you support GP ERP in your organization, the question of GP version upgrade is probably the one you have to face in foreseeable future. Reports upgrade is also required step in the whole upgrade planning and implementation. Good news for you should be the fact, that Microsoft Dexterity remains the base for Microsoft Dynamics GP architecture, as it was for earlier versions of Great Plains: 9.0, 8.0, 7.5, etc. Microsoft also mentioned old and formerly traditional reporting tool – Crystal Reports as one of the reporting options for GP 10.0; if you remember the introduction of GP 9.0, when Microsoft recommended SQL Server Reporting Services or SRS as the replacement to Crystal Reports. Below we will try to give you reporting tools highlights:

1. ReportWriter – this is as you know Dexterity module, which came all the long way with Great Plains since the earliest versions of the product in earlier 1990th. Traditionally MBS gives you the list of RW reports, which are not upgradeable and should be redesigned in new version from scratch. We know that it is possible to “upgrade” the reports from this list by comparing calculated fields in the new and old version of the each report. Sometimes we see the situation, when Reports.dic becomes corrupt and the cure is import all reports into new version of Reports.dic in Report Writer import functionality

2. SRS & Crystal Reports. If you plan to deploy complex tables linking in these tools, meaning the creation of really complex report, then we would wish you good luck, however we recommend different approach – base your reports on SQL Stored Procedure or SQL view. In this case you control your reporting logic in SQL, which is always a way more powerful, versus any reporting tool. Considering SQL stored procedure based reports – both tools are somewhat similar – to provide parameters entry form and group the results. Typically CR and SRS are easy to upgrade, as GP tables structure changes in the way of adding new fields and very rarely in renaming or removing fields. We see more and more SRS reports designed for GP – one of the reasons might be free licensing versus required CR license

3. Smart List and Excel. Especially considering such tool as SmartList Builder, where you can use smart list to display the results from custom view – this makes smart list very powerful for end user, who is not comfortable to do ad hoc SQL queries in Query Analyzer. Plus, for version 10.0 Microsoft recommended Excel reporting, where you do direct connection via ODBC to GP databases

4. Custom Dexterity Reports. Dexterity reporting was very popular, when Great Plains was available for Ctree and Pervasive SQL, and when Crystal Reports were not yet common reporting option for GP – in the second half of 1990th. The advantage of Dex reports is tight integration with GP security and you don’t have to pay for additional licensing (Crystal Reports).
One of the minuses is the necessity to “upgrade” Dex code for the new version
Andrew Karasev, Alba Spectrum Group http://www.albaspectrum.com
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