In Oregon, state health officials decided on Dec. 5 to dramatically reduce the number of test strips allotted to people with type 2 diabetes who are on Medicaid and don’t take insulin
Research shows that 60% of patients with type 2 diabetes are not increasing their level of exercise following their diagnosis and 50% have not made changes to their diet. The figures result from a survey of 652 patients with type 2 diabetes and 337 physicians from the UK, US, Spain, India, Japan and Brazil. The […]
Exercise video games are used by many people worldwide to adopt a regular exercise routine, help with weight loss or to simply play with friends. But new research suggests the popular games could help people with type 2 diabetes to improve control of their glucose levels.
Both patient age and the duration of type 2 diabetes independently determine the clinical course of the disease among adults aged 60 to 80-plus years, according to a report published online Dec. 9 in JAMA Internal Medicine.
This study suggests that a Mediterranean style diet, with a large single meal mid-day, may be an advantage to patients with type 2 diabetes due to the large insulin to glucose ratio it produces.
Type 2 diabetes patients with a BMI of 25-30 kg/m2 who received a laparoscopic gastric band achieved significantly greater weight loss (11 kg vs. 1 kg) and significantly higher rates of diabetes remission (52% vs. 8%) than did those who were treated with standard medical care.
The drug saxagliptin (trade name: Onglyza) has been approved also as monotherapy in Germany since July 2013 for certain adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus. It is an option when drug treatment is needed, but the drug metformin is not tolerated or cannot be used.
According to a recent study, vitamin D supplements may help reduce pain and depression associated with type 2 diabetes in women.
Over the past 15 years there have been dramatic changes in both what drugs are prescribed and how they are used in treating type 2 diabetes. A lot of this is a result of the new classes of drugs that have been developed. Other changes include the types of combination therapies and the rate at […]
In a recent study, the beneficial effects of bariatric surgery for type 2 diabetes were significantly greater than medical and lifestyle interventions. David E. Cummings, MD, of the University of Washington in Seattle, reported that at 1 year, 60% of patients who underwent gastric bypass were in diabetes remission
New cost-effective analysis attempts to determine blood glucose targets to determine persons at high risk for type 2 diabetes development and for diabetes prevention.
Both metformin and MK2 inhibitors work by targeting the liver, but the way they each work is different and this, the researchers say, is key as it means that the benefits of MK2 inhibitors can build upon the benefits of metformin.
In addition, bypass patients lost more belly fat and had improved insulin secretion compared with patients who had sleeve gastrectomy, even though their total weight loss was the same, according to Sangeeta R. Kashyap, MD, of the Cleveland Clinic, and colleagues.
According to the study, the dawn phenomenon was quantified by its absolute increment from nocturnal nadir to prebreakfast value. Although when the treatment groups were compared there was no significant difference, the overall median magnitude of increase in the dawn glucose was 16 mg/dL.
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.
Social Security Disability Benefits and Diabetes Although many individuals who have diabetes are able to control their condition with medical treatment or lifestyle changes, not all people are able to control their diabetes. As a result, they may suffer from severely debilitating side effects. These side effects can include vision loss, kidney disease, nerve damage, […]
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
Now, there’s further evidence that coffee also helps cut the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. In the most recent , researchers found that drinking two or more cups of coffee per day was associated with a 12 percent decreased risk of developing the disease. And even decaffeinated coffee seemed to cut the risk, though […]
To highlight World Diabetes Day which takes place each year on Nov. 14, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) released its sixth edition of the Diabetes Atlas. The report estimates how many adults between the ages of 20 to 79 will be affected by the disease in the future.