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| Obesity Doesn't Always Equal Diabetes |
| 2007-09-10 23:59:00 |
Obesity doesn't mean a person is destined to develop diabetes, experiments in mice suggest. Instead, it may all depend on where the fat is stored.Mice that overate and were very obese still didn't become diabetic, because the activity of two hormones let them store extra calories in fat tissue rather than in their livers or heart muscle."What this mouse model shows is what we have appreciated clinically for a while," said lead researcher Philipp Scherer, a professor of internal medicine and director of the Touchstone Center for Diabetes Research at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas."Basically, it shows that for individuals who have the ability to expand their adipose [fat] tissue mass appropriately for the number of calories they take up, those individuals fare ...
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| Heart Attack Boosts Diabetes Risk |
| 2007-09-10 23:54:00 |
After a heart attack, the risk of developing diabetes and so-called pre-diabetes rises steeply, a new study finds.In fact, recent heart attack patients are up to four-and-a-half times more likely to develop diabetes compared with the general population and more than 15 times more likely to develop high blood sugar, according to the report in the Aug. 25 issue of The Lancet."Having a heart attack means that the chances of getting diabetes later are increased," said Dr. Lionel Opie, director of the Hatter Cardiovascular Research Institute at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and author of an accompanying journal editorial. "We already know that diabetes predisposes one to heart attack, now we add that heart attacks predispose one to diabetes -- one nasty disease leads to another, an...
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| Blood Sugar Control Boosts Diabetics' Recovery After Surgery |
| 2007-04-10 09:20:00 |
It lowers risks for serious infection, study finds, even though we already knew this was the case.Good blood sugar control before surgery reduces the risk of postoperative infections in people with diabetes, U.S. researchers report.The study included 490 diabetic patients, average age 71, who had major noncardiac surgery. Their hemoglobin (Hb A1c) levels were measured within 180 days before the surgery. Hb A1c reflects the patient's control of blood glucose levels during the previous two to three months. Good blood sugar control was defined as an Hb A1c level of less than 7 percent, the American Diabetes Association target.Of the patients in the study, 197 (40 percent) had good blood sugar control, report researchers at Yale University School of Medicine. Patients who did not have good blo...
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| Blood Sugar Control Boosts Diabetics' Recovery After Surgery |
| 2007-04-10 09:20:00 |
It lowers risks for serious infection, study finds, even though we already knew this was the case.Good blood sugar control before surgery reduces the risk of postoperative infections in people with diabetes, U.S. researchers report.The study included 490 diabetic patients, average age 71, who had major noncardiac surgery. Their hemoglobin (Hb A1c) levels were measured within 180 days before the surgery. Hb A1c reflects the patient's control of blood glucose levels during the previous two to three months. Good blood sugar control was defined as an Hb A1c level of less than 7 percent, the American Diabetes Association target.Of the patients in the study, 197 (40 percent) had good blood sugar control, report researchers at Yale University School of Medicine. Patients who did not have good blo...
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| Gene Protects Against Diabetes, Heart Disease |
| 2007-04-10 09:19:00 |
Why some people no matter what they do will probably never get Type 2 diabetes.People lucky enough to carry a variant in a single gene get added protection against both type 2 diabetes and heart disease, a new study finds.Individuals with the trait aren't immune from the conditions, researchers say, but a study of nearly 7,900 subjects found that they are as much as 48 percent less likely to suffer from either illness."This gives us insight into how heart disease and diabetes may develop," said co-author Eric Rimm, an associate professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston.Scientists don't think diabetes and heart disease are inherited, but genes can play a major role, they say. "We do know there are genes that make people more susceptible to beco...
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| Oral-lyn Results for Type 1s |
| 2007-04-10 09:18:00 |
Three-month results of a long-term six-month clinical trial performed in 24 adolescents and 5 young adult patients with type-1 diabetes mellitus (DM) using Oral-lyn, the buccal insulin. This data continuously showed that replacing just 1 one daily subcutaneous injection (s.c.) of regular insulin with Generex Oral-lyn™ during the day, improves parameters of metabolic control in the same manner observed with intensively monitored standard therapy.At the 3rd month evaluation of this six-month trial, it was demonstrated that a trend similar towards normalization exists when replacing the lunch-time dose of regular insulin with the Generex Oral-lyn™ spray. In fact, not only Daily Glucose Profiles and Fructosamine demonstrated improved values but, of special importance, Glycosylated Hemoglob...
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| Diabetes Drug Use by Children Doubled in US Over 3-Year Period |
| 2007-04-10 09:14:00 |
Between 2002 to 2005, the use of agents to prevent or treat type 2 diabetes among US children, 5 to 19 years of age, increased from about 0.3 to 0.6 per 1000, which could have "enormous implications" for long-term healthcare needs and expenses, new research shows.Dr. Emily Cox, Express Scripts senior director of research, and colleagues based their conclusions on an analysis of prescription claims for millions of children enrolled with Express Scripts, a St. Louis-based pharmacy benefit management company. This is the first national study to distinguish between the use of agents for type 1 and type 2 diabetes."This study is the first of its kind nationally to reveal the long-suspected national increase in the prevalence of children with or at risk for diabetes," lead author Dr. Cox said in...
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| New oral diabetes drug gets FDA approval |
| 2007-04-10 09:04:00 |
Diabetics gained a new way of controlling their blood sugar levels Tuesday with the federal approval of a novel pill for Type 2 diabetes, which affects about 20 million Americans.The Food and Drug Administration said it approved Januvia, which enhances the body’s own ability to lower blood sugar levels, after clinical trials showing the new pill works just as well as older diabetes drugs, but with fewer side effects like weight gain. The drug is made by Merck and Co. Inc.The new drug’s cost may limit its use, however. Merck did not immediately disclose what it would charge for Januvia, but it is expected to cost between $3 and $6 a day. Older diabetes drugs can cost 50 cents a day....
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| Coffee may help prevent diabetes |
| 2007-04-10 09:03:00 |
Coffee drinkers have a substantially lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes than people who abstain from the beverage, a new study shows....
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| Coffee may help prevent diabetes |
| 2007-04-10 09:03:00 |
Coffee drinkers have a substantially lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes than people who abstain from the beverage, a new study shows....
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