Most people who receive bariatric surgery in Canada, and around the world, are obese women, even though their male counterparts are more at risk, especially if those men are smokers and have diabetes.
Sleep-disordered breathing and the daytime tiredness that comes with it are common in type 2 diabetes. In a subgroup analysis from a large observational study, researchers found that patients who had higher scores on two different scales of daytime sleepiness were significantly more likely to have suffered from severe hypoglycemia
The American Diabetes Association (ADA) has released a new position statement on nutrition therapy for patients with diabetes. The last statement was published in 2008.
Researchers also found that the rats eating Oreos experienced more pleasure than the animals being injected with drugs, as measured by activation changes in the nucleus accumbens.
Now a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) further underscores the association, finding that too much or too little sleep is linked to a variety of chronic health conditions.
In the same way that we can develop hypoglycemic awareness over years of having hypos, do our bodies take longer to recover from lows after years of living with diabetes?
A round up of the best and most current apps for diabetes presented at this year’s American Association for Diabetes Educators (AADE).
At some point, we’ve all awoken from some kind of binge, perhaps surrounded by beer bottles, candy wrappers or shopping bags, and asked ourselves: What the hell happened? How can rational, functioning adults totally lose control of their impulses?
Sanofi has received European approval for the half unit reusable insulin pen called JuniorSTAR. The insulin pen is intended for patients with Type-1 diabetes between six and eighteen years old.
GlucoTrack is designed to help people with diabetes obtain these blood glucose level measurements without the pain, inconvenience, incremental cost, and difficulty that are presented by conventional (invasive) spot finger stick devices, which all involve drawing blood.
Diabetes experts recommend eating fish for cardiovascular health, but if your only experience with fish so far has been fish sticks or fried fish, you might be wondering how and why to include fish in your strategy for eating well with diabetes.
you think (hope?) that your hand-sanitizer habit is protecting you from colds and flu and gross bugaboos like E. coli. But even if it isn’t, it’s harmless. Right?
OK, D-Peeps, don’t pretend you’re not a little bit confused about what’s going on with healthcare reform at the moment. Clearly, the big win for us people with diabetes (PWDs) is that starting next year, insurers can no longer turn us away for having a pre-existing condition.
You might have been given the ratios by your health care professional, or maybe you calculated your ratio from an equation. How do you know that they are still adequate and, even more importantly, how do you change them if they are not? Read more
An international team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen have successfully developed an innovative 3D method to grow miniature pancreas from progenitor cells. The future goal is to use this model to help in the fight against diabetes.
A recent study from the University Group Diabetes Program (UDGP) reports that a drug often combined with metformin (also known as Glucophage) actually increases a person with type 2 diabetes’ risk of death.
Gastric bypass surgery resulted in significantly more weight loss and also improved measures of glycemic control significantly more than did other forms of bariatric surgery, Dr. John Morton reported at the annual clinical congress of the American College of Surgeons.
We’re only a couple of weeks from the start of National Diabetes Awareness Month and exactly one month fBlueCircleUniterom World Diabetes Day on Nov. 14, and many are busy prepping for the time of year when diabetes awareness efforts hit their peak.
Healthy adults do not need to take vitamin D supplements, suggests a study in The Lancet which found they had no beneficial effect on bone density, a sign of osteoporosis.
Few treatments for type 1 diabetes have been as elusive and long-promised as inhalable insulin. The concept has always sounded remarkable: Instead of jabbing themselves with needles, type 1s (and insulin-using type 2s) could take a quick puff on an inhaler to get a dose of insulin.