Continuing to refine how diabetes is treated, the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists have released a new series of algorithms for the medical management of type 2 diabetes, pre-diabetes metabolic syndrome, and obesity.
Obese teenagers who reduced their body mass index (BMI) by 8 percent or more had improvements in insulin sensitivity, an important metabolic factor related to the later development of type 2 diabetes.
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) is advising anyone with Type 2 diabetes or hypertension to be evaluated for sleep apnea by a board-certified sleep medicine physician.
Aggressive lowering of blood pressure may be associated with increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) in black or white patients with diabetes, according to research published online May 20 in Diabetes Care.
While media reports have been quick to label this a breakthrough in the study of treatments for type 2 diabetes, its value to T1D research has yet to be determined.
In their paper published in the journal Nature, the team describes how they compared the faecal metagenome of 145 European women with varying degrees of glucose intolerance against healthy individuals
According to Professor Edwin Gale, applying the term ‘Type 2 diabetes’ to the complex and varied set of symptoms experienced by people with the condition is what logicians call a category error, when a problem is assigned to a category inappropriate to its solution.
It doesn’t matter whether your doctor looked you in the eyes with a kindly gaze when he dropped the bomb, or she just told you straight with no preliminaries: “You. Have. Diabetes.”
Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk announced plans to re-brand and sell its diabetes drug liraglutide (Victoza) as a weight loss drug for obese people by 2015.
Two cohorts of patients with Type 2 diabetes were prospectively followed-up for 7.4 and 4.5, years respectively, to assess all-cause mortality. Follow-up was performed in order to develop and validate a model for predicting short-term all-cause mortality in patients with T2DM.
“Based on the latest results, it seems like type 2 is progressing more rapidly in children,” said Dr. Jane Chiang, senior vice president of medical affairs and community information for the American Diabetes Association.
Widely-used fish oil supplements modestly increase amounts of a hormone that is associated with lower risk of diabetes and heart disease, according to a study
Wait, an algorithm? No, not the technology software kind. Rather, this “algorithm” is a set of complex guidelines for doctors that, according to the AACE, “considers the whole patient, the spectrum of risks and complications for the patient, and evidence-based approaches to treatment.”
In a study published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences1, a team of researchers finds that in mice, just one of those bacterial species plays a major part in controlling obesity and metabolic disorders such as type 2 diabetes.
Healthy eating for type 2 diabetes is about losing weight and preventing dangerous spikes in blood sugar. Nutrition and health expert Joy Bauer explains how these nine foods can help.
When dieting and exercise are not enough to control your Diabetes, you must make the decision to start using insulin.
Key hormones, amino acids altered during digestion, study finds
The fixed combination of the drugs saxagliptin and metformin (Komboglyze®) has been approved in Germany since November 2011 for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Gastric bypass surgery alters the hormones and amino acids produced during digestion, hinting at the mechanisms through which the surgery eliminates symptoms of type 2 diabetes, according to a recent study
Diabetes is a growing health problem in the U.S., especially Type 2. But Utahn David Steiner was not too concerned with his diagnosis.