Archive for the ‘Diabetes’ Category
Friday, May 9th, 2008
May 8 -- Reduced activity of an important gene during fetal development appears to increase vulnerability to type 2 diabetes later in life, new research suggests.Intrauterine growth retardation , which causes low birth weight in newborns, has been linked to the development of type 2 diabetes and other diseases ...
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
May 8 -- Arthritis strikes more than half of the 20.6 million American adults who have diabetes, and the painful joint condition may be a barrier to exercise among these patients, a new government report shows.Being physically active helps people manage both diseases better by controlling blood sugar levels ...
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
May 7 -- Women with high blood sugar levels during pregnancy face an increased risk of complications, even if the high blood sugar readings don't meet the criteria for gestational diabetes.In a large, international study, researchers found that for each standard deviation increase in blood sugar, there was a ...
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
May 7 -- Between 1996 and 2007, there were 13 deaths and more than 1,500 injuries reported among young people using insulin pumps to treat type 1 diabetes, says a U.S. Food and Drug Administration study. The pumps offer an alternative to multiple daily injections of insulin by syringe.The ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
May 2 -- While diabetes has long been associated with the potentially sight-stealing disease diabetic retinopathy, it appears that another serious eye disease -- glaucoma -- may also be a complication of the metabolic disorder.A recent study in the journal Ophthalmology found that women with diabetes have about a ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
May 1 -- Older adults with sleep problems, pain, diabetes and respiratory problems are more likely to take naps during the day, a U.S. study finds.Researchers from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., looked at 235 people, average age 80.1 years, who were monitored for an average of ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
April 28 -- The number of women starting their pregnancies with type 1 or type 2 diabetes has doubled since 1999, but rates of gestational diabetes have stayed the same, new research finds.In some age groups, the results were even worse. Researchers from Kaiser Permanente found that the number ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
April 18 -- Overeating, not the obesity it causes, is the actual cause of metabolic syndrome, suggests a study with mice by researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.Metabolic syndrome is a collection of health factors that increase the risk of developing insulin resistance, fatty ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
April 17 -- Without using an egg, researchers have been able to reprogram certain mature cells back to an embryonic-stem-cell-like state, a new report says.A research team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology performed the feat on mature B cells, immune cells that can bind to specific antigens, such as ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
April 13 -- Rising food prices may have people with diabetes and their caregivers wondering if they'll be able to afford a healthy diabetes meal plan. But it's a misconception that these plans have to be costly and consist of high-priced, specialty foods, the American Diabetes Association says."Eating well ...
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