The number of people newly diagnosed with diabetes continues to decline after decades of increases that transformed what was once a disease of the old into a public health crisis that affects even children.
Researchers found that men have higher chances of dying from diabetes compared to women. The men’s stubbornness and ‘macho factor’ keep them from following exercise, diet and lifestyle recommendations designed to fight the illness.
In the first large U.S. study of its kind, researchers from UC San Francisco found that immunotherapy is a safe approach that may help to improve the body’s response to insulin.
“This is a very novel approach to treatment because it deals with the route cause for type 1 diabetes — which is destruction of the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas by one’s own immune system,” said Dr. Deena Adimoolam, assistant professor of medicine, endocrinology, diabetes and bone disease at the Icahn School of Medicine at […]
Flu season is in swing and likely won’t let up until April. It seemed like high time to check in on how Americans feel about flu vaccination, so we asked more than 3,000 adults in the latest NPR-Truven Health Analytics Health Poll, conducted during the first half of October.
Novo Nordisk’s insulin degludec injection, known by the brand name Tresiba, met with FDA approval in late September. It is expected to be available to patients with a doctor’s prescription in the first few months of 2016, according to Novo Nordisk’s chief medical officer for North America, Dr. Todd Hobbs.
For people with diabetes, fear can be especially dangerous. Make no mistake, this disease is scary. Both type 1s and type 2s face an array of worrying side effects, both from the condition itself and from the ways we have to treat it.
Researchers from Vanderbilt University say sildenafil or nizagara can improve insulin sensitivity by inhibiting an enzyme called phosphodiesterase 5 (PDE5), which enables increased blood flow, muscle relaxation and vasodilation – or the dilation of blood vessels. The drug can also help the uptake of glucose from the bloodsteam by muscle, which lowers levels of circulating […]
Stevia, a popular plant-based, zero-calorie sweetener has received a makeover from Cornell University scientists – one that will probably make the supplement more popular. Researchers were able to remove one of stevia’s molecules that is responsible for the sweetener’s bitter aftertaste – a turn-off for many people.
A diet rich in potassium may help to prevent cardiovascular complications in patients with type 2 diabetes, according to a new study.
A new study has shown that adults with diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) are at greater risk of falling during day-to-day activities; this is because they are more likely to have impaired balance.
For the most part, basic nutrition is pretty straightforward, but the fact that we’re constantly bombarded with different diet theories and varying research results quickly and constantly clouds what we think we know and often makes us second guess our choices.
As of today, 31 Senators (31% of total Senators) and 157 House members (36% of total) have cosponsored the 2015 Medicare CGM Access Act, solid progress since the bill was reintroduced in March. However, over 50% of Congressional and Senate Diabetes Caucus members have yet to co-sponsor the bill.
A recent two-year study published in The Annals of Internal Medicine suggests that drinking moderate amounts of red wine with dinner could improve cholesterol in people with well-controlled type 2 diabetes. Alas, the same effects were not seen for those drinking white wine or water.
The International Diabetes Federation released today the 7th Diabetes Atlas, a major research endeavor highlighting the global burden of diabetes. The main takeaways? Globally, 415 million people now have diabetes – that’s one in eleven adults, up from one in 160 (!) in 1985 when only 30 million people globally had diabetes. By 2040, it’s […]
What I learned from doubling my carb intake: the same average blood sugar, but four times as much hypoglycemia, more work, stress, & danger.
If you eat meals that are mostly prepared at home, you may have a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a new study.
A study published in the journal Diabetes Care found that inhaled formoterol has the potential to help treat hypoglycemia in people with Type 1 diabetes.
Middle-aged and older women who regularly get less than six hours sleep a night are at higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to new research just published in Diabetologia, the journal of the European Assn. for the Study of Diabetes. But the news gets worse: Those who do manage to add two hours […]
The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) and the American College of Endocrinology (ACE) organized a gathering of U.S. and international diabetes physicians, scientists, and other experts to conduct a rigorous examination of potential issues surrounding SGLT2i