Researchers at National Taiwan University Hospital and National Chiao-Tung University in Taiwan developed an optical sensor that hangs off a pair of glasses and helps spot autonomic neuropathy by monitoring the activity of the eye for a half hour.
Data from death certificates was collected in Italy from patients (n=176, 771) diagnosed with diabetes and who died from chronic liver disease (CLD). Researchers collected data retrospectively to determine the cause CLD, which led to increased risk of death.
Shift workers, especially men, may be at higher risk for type 2 diabetes compared to people not on such schedules, a new study suggests. Also at special risk are shift workers who don’t work on a set schedule, with shifts moving around at various times of the day.
A report published in the journal Diabetes, scientists led by Labros Sidossis, professor of internal medicine at University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, found for the first time that adults who retained more amounts of brown fat were better able to keep blood sugar under control and burn off fat stores.
A study was then done to present the safety and efficacy of intravitreal implants releasing 0.2mcg/day of fluocinolone acetonide (FAc) in patients which chronic versus nonchronic DME. Chronic was defined as a diagnoses of DME for 3 years or greater while a diagnoses if DME for less than 3 years was characterized as nonchronic.
According to studies, type 2 diabetic patients have significantly lower concentrations of the amino acid glutamine circulating in the body.
Researchers evaluated the association between HbA1c variability and mortality due to all causes, cancer, and non-cancer in patients with type 2 diabetes independent of mean HbA1c levels.
In mice with diet-induced diabetes—the equivalent of type 2 diabetes in humans—a single injection of the protein FGF1 is enough to restore blood sugar levels to a healthy range for more than two days. The discovery by Salk scientists, published today in the journal Nature, could lead to a new generation of safer, more effective […]
Writing in Nature Medicine, researchers from Stanford University School of Medicine, CA, describe how the new handheld microchip test shows not only high sensitivity and specificity for the diagnosis of type 1 diabetes, but also potential to discover previously unknown biomarkers of the disease.
For kids facing stress at home or school, comfort food may lead to unexpected and unwelcome side effects. According to a study from Belgian researchers, that extra eating can lead to increased body fat — and increased obesity risk.
Did you know that people with Type 1 diabetes also are at greater risk of having celiac disease? The odds of having celiac disease are 5 times to 7 times times greater for people with Type 1 diabetes than for the general population.
A meta-analysis of 3,619 deaths among individuals with diabetes and those who also had a history of foot ulcers reported a high risk of mortality from any cause in those patients who had diabetic foot ulcers; relative risk was 1.89.
New research published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes) suggests that consuming whey protein before a regular breakfast reduces the blood sugar spikes seen after meals and also improves the body’s insulin response.
Researchers at Brown University may have developed a new sensor that would allow the sampling of saliva for glucose testing. The sensor relies on plasmonic interferometry, a light-based way of detecting chemical compounds, and a dual-enzyme assay that works as a dye, to mark glucose.
The team from Columbia University Medical Center in New York City said their findings hold promise for the development of a new treatment for type 1 diabetes that does not involve stem cells.
Scientists at the New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) were able to create an embryonic clone of the 32-year-old woman and extract healthy stem cells, which were then turned into cells that could produce insulin.
Gestational diabetes (GDM), which affects about 7 percent of all pregnancies in the U.S., might be helped by a joint supplementation of calcium and vitamin D, according to research from the Isfahan University of Medical Sciences in Iran.
By some estimates, people with type 2 diabetes can have up to a 30 percent increased risk for colorectal cancer. Christian Rask-Madsen, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Investigator in the Section on Vascular Cell Biology, and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, is investigating why in a series of experiments recently funded by the National Institutes of […]
The longer a person took low-dose aspirin, the lower his or her risk for developing pancreatic cancer, according to a study recently published. Men and women who took low-dose aspirin regularly had 48 percent reduction in their risk for developing pancreatic cancer.
Vitamin D receptors in the part of the brain that controls weight and glucose could explain why supplementation with this key nutrient can lower blood sugar and help regulate weight, a study reports.