Are you ready to celebrate the holidays? How many festivities are on your calendar this season? It’s time to navigate the minefield of situations that can throw your diabetes off course and send a joyous occasion into the dumps.
After gastric bypass surgery, diabetes goes away for some people — often even before they lose much weight. So does that mean gastric surgery “cures” diabetes?
Bariatric surgery induces a significant and lasting improvement in diabetic nephropathy, with nearly 60% of patients with this condition achieving remission five years after surgery,
Scientists at Tel Aviv University in Israel report that taking whey protein isolates or concentrates may help treat type 2 diabetes and prevent obesity.
Clinical depression affects approximately 21 to 27 percent of people with type 1 diabetes and 11 percent of type 2 diabetics, according to an article in Diabetes Spectrum.
This book is the opposite of so many diabetes books: easy-to-digest, fits in your pocket and has a great sense of humor.
A Chinese study of 345 patients divided between non-diabetics and people with type 2 diabetes concludes that gut bacteria between the two groups differs substantially-so much so that the bacteria can be used to accurately determine who has or doesn’t have the disease.
Every person who is diagnosed with type 2 diabetes is encouraged to modify their diet in order to help control their diabetes.
There is a bidirectional relationship between type 2 diabetes and depression, with a stronger correlation for depression predicting diabetes onset, according to research published online Nov. 12 in Diabetes Care.
If the eyes are the windows to the soul, then your mouth — and, by extension, dental health (or lack thereof) — may be the conduit to potential early warning signs of numerous diseases — including Type 2 diabetes.
They include 32 new treatments for type 1 diabetes, 130 for type 2, 14 for unspecified diabetes and 64 for diabetes-related conditions, says PhRMA, which describes this pipeline as “an exciting new chapter in the ongoing quest to better treat this debilitating disease.”
Often the American Diabetes Association (ADA) gets pummeled for promoting high carbohydrate diets. Although as we’ve covered before, the ADA does not even have an official diet.
The later consequences of diabetes, however, which mostly affect the blood vessels and cause cardiovascular conditions such as myocardial infarctions or strokes, are more likely to be fatal.
FORXIGA is a selective and reversible inhibitor of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) that works independently of insulin to help remove excess glucose from the body, a unique mode of action not seen in any other currently available treatments.
A recent study from the University of Massachusetts found that 36 percent of gastric bypass patients did not need diabetes medication two weeks after surgery and 67 percent were medication free after one year.
You’re unlikely to get diagnosed with type 2 diabetes if you already have type 1, because it’s hard to measure the difference in blood sugar values, but you can still suffer from both types of diabetes simultaneously.
“Studies show that older beta- blockers can increase a patient’s risk of type 2 diabetes by more than 25 percent.” While raising the risk of diabetes is not good for anyone, it is especially damaging for individuals who already have conditions that affect the heart and vascular system.
While their study shows lower incidents of type 2 diabetes in countries where consumption of black tea is high such as Ireland, the UK and Turkey, scientists stop short of saying that drinking black tea can reduce the risk of developing the disease
Pulse wave velocity is higher among patients with well-controlled type 2 diabetes when compared to controls, and is associated with white matter lesions, according to a study published online Nov. 5 in Diabetes Care.
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