New treatment for type 2 diabetes puts insulin back to work
...w that rosiglitazone the new treatment for type 2 diabetes gives individuals with this disease long-term con...istance is not only a fundamental defect in type 2 diabetes it is also commonly associated with a cluster of other conditions, including coronary heart disease...Reducing the costs of diabetes in Europe: Preventing complications is the key
...aluate the overall cost of individuals with type 2 diabetes reveals thaturgent action is needed to reduce the ...mproving the quality of life of people with type 2 diabetes and to reducingfuture costs is to address the long-term complications of the disease." Initial resul...Keep taking the medicine, diabetes research warns
...that an alarming number of individuals with type 2 diabetes stop taking their medication, as reported today in...h and survival," he added. Over 90% of people with diabetes have type 2 diabetes. This condition tends to develop later in life than the less common type 1, or ...Researchers find elevated cholesterol is risk factor for preeclampsia
...en having their first pregnancy. While preexisting diabetes and high blood pressure have been identified as riskfactors, standard treatments for those conditions have not been effective inreducing the risk. "We wanted to look at factors that could be modified before pregnancy or earlyon and may play an impor...... treatable, although itmay not be curable, just as diabetes is," said Berninger. "Dyslexia is alifelong condition, but dyslexics may learn to compensate for it later in life.We know dyslexia is a genetic and neurological disorder. It is not brain damage. Dyslexics often have enormous talents in other parts o...Diabetes therapy may impair memory function in children
...oundation and the U.S. Public Health Service. Most diabetes experts now recommend IT for patients with diabetes because thenationwide Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) showed that intensivetherapy c......etes Wagenknecht said that the reasons why diabetes accelerates the risk ofheart disease are not fully understood. One explanation is that diabetics have anumber of adverse risk factors including obesity. "This study could have animportant impact on the 15 million diabetics in the United States, nearl...NIAID spearheads collaborative network for clinical research on immune tolerance
...ss successful. Only about 5 percent of people with diabetes who receive transplanted isletsalong with immunosu...orld's leading nonprofit, nongovernmentalfunder of diabetes research. NIDDK is also contributing to the project. "This represents one of the largest NIH awards...Depression, anxiety and stress can hinder diabetic's ability to control blood sugar
...epressants to biofeedback and relaxation therapyin diabetes treatment. The research was supported by a grant from the Office of Alternative Medicine,National Institutes of Health....Wake Forest to coordinate huge national study to prevent cardiovascular disease in diabetes
... affect the treatment of millions of patients with diabetes fordecades to come." In addition to the cl...s, according to a report ofa special conference on diabetes sponsored by the National Institutes of Health.That conference recommended a large-scale clinical tr...National study focuses on families of people with diabetes and obesity
... 9-13 members. But because of the greater risk of diabetes forHispanics and African-Americans, two- thirds of the families to be recruitedwill be Hispanics and one-third African-Americans. She said the average participant in IRAS was now in his or her 60s,which would put their parents in their 80s a...Study reveals many dental patients don't realize they have major medical conditions
...hat we're up against. Undiagnosed and uncontrolled diabetes can have a profoundimpact on oral health and can g...o-way relationship between periodontal disease and diabetes exists.Diabetics are more likely to develop infections like periodontal disease, andperiodontal dise...Lack of sleep alters hormones, metabolism
... the effectsof advanced age or the early stages of diabetes -- after less than one week. Although many studies have examined the short-term effects of acute, total sleepdeprivation on the brain, this is the first to investigate the impact ofchronic, partial sleep loss on the body by evaluating the metabolism ...A growth factor reverses nerve damage in diabetic animals
...y reveals that long-term nerve damage in rats with diabetes can be reversed by treatment with an insulin-like ...plications, even in people who don't control their diabetes well," says Robert E. Schmidt, M.D., Ph.D. Schmidt is a professor of pathology at Washington Univers...Annals Of Internal Medicine - tip sheet for November 2, 1999
...ecision analysis of data from patients with type 2 diabetes compared treatingall patients with angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors to preventfuture kidney disease with a strategy of testing first for protein in the urine,then treating only those with abnormal amounts of protein (Article, p. 660).Tr...HDL -- 'good' cholesterol -- helps bypass surgery
...ays. "They were less obese and less likely to have diabetes and hypertension. That's because 20 years ago, only the healthiest heart patients were considered good candidates for open heart surgery." Other researchers included Francis D. Ferdinand, M.D.; Bruce W. Lytle, M.D.; Delos M. Cosgrove, M.D.; Dennis L...Impotence may be early warning of heart disease
...ted total cholesterol levels, high blood pressure, diabetes or a family history of heart disease. Treadmill exercise testing found signs of heart disease in 28 of the 50 men. Twenty of the men subsequently underwent angiography, where a radioactive dye is injected into the heart arteries and then an X-ra......e is a 37-amino acid peptide under development for diabetes therapy. This investigation describes analytical test methods for assuring the purity of the drug. These methods may have general application for analysis of complex peptides intended for therapeutic use. Sustained Activity and Release of Leuprol...Eating disorders more common among girls with diabetes
...ders in adolescent females with and without type 1 diabetes Eating disorders are almost twice as common in girls with type 1 diabetes as in non-diabetic girls of the same age, putting them at increased risk of complications, according...Scientists successfully grow insulin-secreting cells to treat diabetes
...ase in the United States. One approach to treating diabetes is transplantation of either the pancreas or of islet cells which contain beta cells, giving the patient a new source of insulin. Recent advances in these techniques indicate that this is a successful approach, but limited due to the scarcity of don...