Wil Dubois answers some science-y questions about pancreas transplants and whether an immune-suppressant drug for HIV/AIDS and hepatitis could impact someone’s type 1 diabetes honeymoon.
The main objectives of pancreas transplant are to eliminate the patient’s dependency on insulin, to improve the quality of life and to reduce long-term diabetic complications.
In patients with type 1 diabetes and end-stage renal disease, a combined pancreas/kidney transplant was associated with significantly better 15-year survival than a single kidney graft alone.
Everyone wants a cure for diabetes. Or do they? Some people think so much money is made from “treating” diabetes that nobody in power really wants to “cure” it. Is there any truth to this? Could there be a cure?
Aspirin resistance – a concern among patients with type 2 diabetes who may be at high risk of heart disease – may be attenuated by aggressive glucose-lowering therapy, researchers said here.
An international research study now suggests that someday, taking oral insulin could delay the onset or even prevent the development of type 1 diabetes for some people.
The key to restoring production of insulin in type I diabetic patients, previously known as juvenile diabetes, may be in recovering the population of protective cells known T regulatory cells.
In our efforts to cure T1D, JDRF actively supports research aimed at restoring a person’s insulin-producing capability and halting or reversing the body’s misguided immune attack on the pancreas.
The models simulate injections of insulin in the manner of insulin pumps, which deliver periodic impulses in diabetes patients.
The fact is, about 75% of the time, you’re going to sleep through a nocturnal low rather than waking up. Surprising, huh? Most of us probably think that if we don’t wake up, we didn’t go low.
When it comes to battling diabetes, low-carb diets may help more than low-calorie plans, according to an international study published in the October issue of Nutrition.
Strategies implemented to improve blood glucose control in people with type 1 diabetes and so reduce complications, such as heart attacks and early death, are working, but there is much need for further improvement.
Drinking alcohol has long been associated with a number of health benefits, in addition to its known risks (which can include addiction and abuse, as well as higher blood triglyceride levels in some people).
Many people living with type 1 diabetes connect online through ‘d-blogs.’ If you have diabetes, find out how the online community might help you
“I expressed my frustration at the different ways my blood sugar reacts to exercise throughout the day, and to different types of movement.”
The Sansum Diabetes Research Institute is pleased to announce that researchers from Sansum and UCSB were among three awardees out of 128 entrants in the second annual Wyss Institute IEEE EMBS Award for Translational Research.
Guest speaker Dr. Nadira Husein of Waterloo is the lead endocrinologist for the LIHN and assistant professor at Western and McMaster Universities. She led a lively interactive discussion concerning insulin pumps, food diaries, A1C levels.
The antidiabetic drug metformin is not prescribed for patients with reduced kidney function because the risk of adverse effects has been regarded as unacceptably high.
Israeli researchers believe that they have found a way to increase the survival and effectiveness of insulin-producing pancreatic cells transplanted into diabetic mice.
Diabetes curiosity refers to those who use someone else’s lancet and glucose meter diabetes testing devices to prick themselves to test their own blood sugar levels.