“While most of us perceive hypoglycemia as a nuisance which may make us feel fuzzy-headed or causes us to lose some motor control, if severe it can actually cause convulsions, coma and even death,” said Casey Donovan, professor of biological sciences at USC Dornsife.
Not only do we have all the blood sugar monitoring aspects that go with diabetes and keGot Sleepep us up, but we’re also more prone to sleeping disorders that can wreak havoc on our shut-eye routines.
New early-warning signs of the potential loss of sight associated with diabetes have been detected by researchers. This discovery could have far-reaching implications for the diagnosis and treatment of diabetic retinopathy, potentially impacting the care of over 25 million Americans.
The insulin composition, delivery method, and local blood perfusion at the insulin delivery site all influence the absorption rate of insulin into the circulation. The current rapid-acting insulins we have aren’t particularly rapid compared with the body’s own insulin.
Whether you love yourself a good cup of coffee or love to hate it, you probably have some strong feelings about caffeine. Between religious restrictions and those of us who feel proud to be caffeine-free, what some call the most widely-used drug on the planet can be pretty polarizing.
Last week, a company called UniStrip Technologies announced availability of a new FDA-approved generic test strip, and at the same time, we got word that the green-colored GenStrip alternative test strip we reported on in late 2012 is ramping up marketing after some courtroom successes
Whether our particular issue is emotional eating, binge eating, disordered eating or we just can’t seem to get a handle on the whole nutrition thing, we can all stand to learn a few things from the people for whom healthy eating just comes easily. Here are a few of the things they do differently.
A three-decade study from researchers at the University of Miami found that chromium supplements are not useful in lowering fasting glucose levels in either healthy individuals or those with diabetes.
We’ve come a long way since the eighties, when shame was a big part of diabetes management. My doctors now carefully avoid pejorative language when we discuss my A1c, but I still feel the same waves of anxiety and shame regardless. Though I try, I can’t seem to shake my anxiety.
Diabetes common sense dictates that an hour of running could and likely would cause a drop in your child’s blood glucose level. Some of you, heck – most of you, probably have that exact situation going on.
Researchers at Boston University of School of Medicine (BUSM) found that Pramlintide, a relatively new drug used to treat both type 1 and type 2 diabetes, reduces the presence of amyloid-beta peptides, an amino acid that is present in higher levels in the brains of those with Alzheimer’s, and essentially toxic to nerve cells.
Federal researchers on Wednesday reported the first broad national picture of progress against some of the most devastating complications of diabetes, which affects millions of Americans, finding that rates of heart attacks, strokes, kidney failure and amputations fell sharply over the past two decades.
The GlucoTrack DF-F model is a high-tech earlobe clip that measures glucose using three kinds of technologies: ultrasound, electromagnetic, and thermal. You just clip the GlucoTrack sensor onto your earlobe and within a minute, it sends your BG data through a headphone-style cord to a smartphone-sized handheld controller.
Short-term intensive insulin therapy (IIT) can improve β-cell function in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in association with decreased glycemic variability, according to a study published in the April issue of Diabetes Care.
Tanzeum “can be used alone or added to existing treatment regimens to control blood sugar levels in the overall management of diabetes,” Dr. Curtis Rosebraugh, director of the Office of Drug Evaluation II in the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, said in an agency news release
When JDRF committed to funding research in artificial pancreas technology in 2006, Brobson raised his hand to be a guinea pig. In 2007, he began to take part in human clinical trials of artificial pancreas technology through the University of Virginia Center for Diabetes Technology.
Lexicon Pharmaceuticals Inc said its experimental drug to treat diabetes reduced the use of insulin at meal times in a mid-stage study of patients with type 1 diabetes, sending the company’s shares up as much as 17 percent.
People who eat the most protein, especially from animal sources, are more likely to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, according to a study of European adults. The new study did not randomly assign participants to eat different amounts of protein, which would have yielded the strongest evidence.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the rate of diagnosed and undiagnosed diabetes was 5.5 percent of the U.S. population. By 2010, that number had risen to 9.3 percent. That means 21 million American adults had confirmed diabetes in 2010, according to the researchers.
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, a condition characterized by an accumulation of fat in the liver, is associated with an increased risk for type 2 diabetes, according to new research.