FDA approves Avapro for treatment of diabetic kidney disease in people with high blood pressure
...irbesartan) for a new indication: the treatment of diabetic nephropathy (kidney disease) in people who have h...ta supporting the importance of early treatment of diabetic kidney disease," added Dr. Lewis. "The approval of Avapro means that we now have a new treatment op...Type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes are undetected in over one quarter of obese population
...fore untreated for many years. During this period, diabetic complications such as heart disease, nerve damage and stroke can develop. Worldwide, the prevalence of overweight and obesity is growing at an epidemic rate, with a corresponding surge in the incidence of type 2 diabetes. It is estimated that there ...FINAL ALERT: RPB Science Writers Seminar in Eye Research to be held in Washington, DC Sept. 22-25
...ited drugs for preventing vision loss from AMD and diabetic retinopathy. What's missing though is a sure-fire way for getting the drugs to where they need to go -- the retina and choroid -- repeatedly and in sufficient doses. A new delivery system shows promise of filling that gap. Now in animal trials, it...Researchers pinpoint pain responses in newborns
...ants in the control group were matched to those of diabetic mothers on birth characteristics such as weight, gestational age, gender and type of delivery. After 24 hours of life, a blood sample was taken from the hands of all infants (venipuncture) as part of the routine newborn screening test. The babies wh...Diabetes patients with low literacy more likely to have poorly controlled disease
...19% of patients with adequate health literacy, had diabetic retinopathy, an eye condition that can be a precursor to blindness. While prior studies have shown that optimal blood sugar control can prevent retinopathy, only 20% of patients with inadequate health literacy had optimal blood sugar control, as oppo...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, July 16, 2002
... 110). The patient, who subsequently died, was not diabetic and was given insulin instead of heparin to clear an intravenous line. The article discusses how individual mistakes and weaknesses in the hospital's systems led to the error, and describes how the hospital responded....American Heart Association updates heart attack, stroke prevention guidelines
...high blood pressure and high cholesterol levels in diabetic patients and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations for routine health care examinations. Consolidating these various guidelines means that health care providers and patients can use a single source of information to evaluate indivi...Schepens is recipient of the most National Eye Institute funds in 2001
...f vision loss and blindness macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, eye inflammation, dry eye syndrome, a...s of vision loss, such as macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy. "Our business is hope," says Streilein. "We are very proud of what we are achieving sci...Diabetes treatment linked to increased blood pressure in animal study
...als will need to be studied further, especially in diabetic models, this research suggests that the central GLP-1 system can regulate sympathetic outflow including raising heart rate and blood pressure."...Researchers warn antipsychotic drug
...malities ranging from mild blood sugar problems to diabetic ketoacidosis and coma in patients who had been prescribed olanzapine, most of whom were otherwise not known to be diabetic. Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is a serious condition in which a person experiences an extreme rise in blood glucose level couple...Common diabetes drug causes arteries to spasm, endangering heart
...s may actually increase cardiovascular problems in diabetic patients. The link between these drugs and heart ...ospasm and therefore present a significant risk to diabetic patients. Since diabetic patients are already facing an increased risk of cardiovasculr disease, th...Should people with diabetes sleep with the lights on?
...-time illumination could help prevent the onset of diabetic retinopathy, a condition which can result in sever...atory potentials induced by dark adaptation in the diabetic patients increased during oxygen inhalation to an amplitude that was comparable to that of the contr...Data reveals Lilly's PKC inhibitor improved symptomatic diabetic peripheral neuropathy
...ymptoms, vibratory sensation and other measures of diabetic peripheral neuropathy in Phase 2 trial results pre...ple with diabetes around the world are affected by diabetic peripheral neuropathy, according to the International Diabetes Federation. There is no prescription ...SPECT identifies 'silent' cardiovascular risk in diabetic patients
...fusion imaging (MPI) studies were performed on 189 diabetic patients. Although ECG changes were observed in on...te the presence of "silent" myocardial ischemia in diabetic patients undergoing cardiac assessment. Myocardial ischemia, a deficiency of blood supply to the hea...High mortality rate in blacks with type 1 diabetes is due largely to acute complications
...er than in whites, and acute complications such as diabetic coma are to blame, according to a study being cond...gators are examining cause of death for 200 type 1 diabetic patients among a cohort of 1,261 patients diagnosed with type 1 diabetes between 1965 and 1979. At 2...Insulin sensitizer has anti-inflammatory effect in diabetics
...lin. Researchers collected blood samples from the diabetic volunteers and started them on a six-week course of daily rosiglitazone. They repeated the blood sampling four times during the six weeks of treatment and again at 12 weeks, and analyzed the samples for concentration of three inflammatory markers and...Ginseng berry extract shows promise for diabetes, obesity
...erry extract restored normal blood-sugar levels in diabetic mice. Blood-glusoce levels fell from 222 mg/dl (q... excess glucose from the blood. The extract caused diabetic mice, which were also obese, to lose more than 10 percent of their body weight in 12 days. Untreate...USC researchers suggest possible cause for kidney cancer
...re obese, those with high blood pressure, smokers, diabetic patients and women who had had a hysterectomy and oophorectomy. Lipid peroxidation also increased in the kidney cells of rodents after testosterone treatment or oophorectomy. Yet lipid peroxidation decreased in the renal cells of rodents after they...Researchers identify new signs of depression and anxiety in patients
...ession worsens outcomes in cardiac patients. Also, diabetic patients who have been treated for anxiety and depression seem to be able to control their disease better. However, the Duke researchers said that their study did not find any evidence that specific medical diagnoses are independent markers for anxie...Study raises questions on widespread prescribing of diabetic footwear
.... The study did not include those five percent of diabetic patients with severe foot deformities or other spe...ities. "The evidence suggests that a shift in the diabetic foot care paradigm may be in order," said co-principal investigator Douglas Smith, MD, of the Univer...