A new score chart may help obese patients with type 2 diabetes determine beforehand if gastric bypass surgery will – or will not – be an effective way to send their diabetes into remission, better determining if such a drastic surgery is the right choice to make in treating the disease.
Row upon row of dietary supplements line store shelves, offering better health the “natural” way. It’s tempting to stock up on supplements, trying to make up for less than nutritious diets or hoping to find an over-the-counter capsule that can lower blood glucose levels.
The results from these studies show that ACE inhibitors significantly decreased the doubling of creatinine compared with placebo (OR=0.58; 95% credible interval, 0.32-0.9), and the use of beta-blockers significantly increased mortality risk (OR=7.13; 95% credible interval, 1.37-41.39).
Researchers from the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute, in collaboration with researchers from Johns Hopkins University and the National Institutes of Health, have discovered a simple way to further predict a diabetic patient’s risk for heart disease: by measuring their body mass index or BMI.
Fifteen patients with diabetes and 14 healthy older adults, average age 62, were administered a single 40-unit dose of insulin or saline in a randomized order on two subsequent days. Measurements of brain function were then made using regional perfusion and vasodilatation with 3 Tesla MRI and neuropsychological evaluation of learning and memory
The American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association have released a new clinical practice guideline to help primary care clinicians better identify adults who may be at high risk for developing atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, potentially serious cardiovascular conditions caused by atherosclerosis, and who thus may benefit from lifestyle changes or drug therapy to […]
According to results of a new study, high levels of serum calcium – the calcium that shows up in extracellular fluid or muscle tissue – could be linked to type 2 diabetes.
A diet high in acidic foods — meat, fish, and sodas, for instance — may put some women at greater risk for developing type 2 diabetes, researchers found.
Babies born of women who have undergone bariatric (weight-loss) surgery are more likely to be premature and to be small for gestational age, according to a large registry study carried out at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and published in the BMJ.
A hormone test may be able to predict the extent of metabolic improvement caused by the gastric bypass. These are the results of a study on a rodent model conducted by Prof. Dr. Matthias Tschöp and his colleagues from the Institute of Diabetes and Obesity (IDO).
Pancreas transplants for patients such as Schofield are not typically an option because they are difficult to perform, said Dr. Michael Rickels, associate professor of medicine at University of Pennsylvania. But an experimental procedure using the pancreas’ islet cells is being tested at medical centers around the country. If it’s approved by the Food and […]
A study recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides further demonstration that implanting encapsulated beta cells can be beneficial to individuals with T1D. In the study, researchers implanted functional islet cells from the pancreas of a deceased organ donor into a 63-year-old man who had had T1D for 54 years and […]
Generally, women under 60 are at far less risk for coronary artery disease than men of the same age. But among women of that age who have diabetes, their risk of heart disease increases by up to four times, making it roughly equal to men’s risk of this same form of heart disease.
Researchers from the Helmholtz Zentrum München (HMGU) and the Technische Universität München (TUM), together with scientists in the USA, discovered that the hormone can act on the receptors in insulin-stimulating hormones GLP-1 and GIP, helping to reduce weight and improve blood sugar in patients.
Researchers from the Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands found that naps of different durations can affect the body differently, with longer naps being more detrimental to health.
The mocked “obesity excuse” of being born with a slow metabolism is actually true for some people, say researchers.
Published as the cover article in the October issue of Cell Metabolism, the study found that immune sensor Nlrp3 inflammasome is a common trigger of this inflammation-driven loss of function that manifests itself in insulin-resistance, bone loss, frailty, and cognitive decline in aging.
Recently, considerable progress has been made in studies evaluating the possible role of one virus group, called enteroviruses, which have been connected with human type 1 diabetes in a variety of reports. These viruses are common in children, and more than 100 different enterovirus types have been identified in man.
Researchers also found that the rats eating Oreos experienced more pleasure than the animals being injected with drugs, as measured by activation changes in the nucleus accumbens.
Now a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) further underscores the association, finding that too much or too little sleep is linked to a variety of chronic health conditions.