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Thursday, Nov 19
Hemoglobin levels predicted proliferative diabetic retinopathy incidence
Higher hemoglobin levels appear to predict the incidence of proliferative diabetic retinopathy in patients with type 1 diabetes. ... Hemoglobin levels associated with proliferative diabetic retinopathy, but ...OSN SuperSite all 2 news articles »
Monday, Jun 8
AHA statement: Exercise training recommended in patients with type ...
“However, despite a number of studies suggesting favorable effects on metabolic control and CVD risk factors, the net effect of these on clinical outcomes in type 2 diabetes mellitus is yet to be defined.” The researchers recommended that patients with ...
Genes play role in glycemic control in type 1 diabetes
In addition, data suggested that SORCS1 is associated with hypoglycemia and that BNC2 is associated with kidney and eye complications. “While this information gives us insight into the mechanisms influencing glycemic control in people with type 1 ...
Sunday, Jun 7
Bariatric surgery challenges the perception of type 2 diabetes as ...
NJ Diabetes may be a “dysfunction of the bowel,” he said. The concept of bariatric surgery is shifting to metabolic surgery, Rubino said. The procedure leads to a remission of type 2 diabetes, resolution of hypertension, improvement in hyperlipidemia, ...
PAD prevalent among patients with diabetes, metabolic syndrome
NJ Insulin resistance was linked to PAD in NHANES, and Pande said it is no surprise that inflammation – which is linked to insulin resistance – is also related to PAD. The Edinburgh Artery Study shows that patients with diabetes and glucose intolerance ...
Thursday, May 28
Meta-analysis: Screening interventions may delay type 2 diabetes ...
Among these, 31867 previously had gestational diabetes; there were 10859 incident cases of type 2 diabetes. Outcome measure was the development of type 2 diabetes at least six weeks following the end of pregnancy — defined as an oral glucose tolerance ...
Fenofibrate decreased amputation risk in type 2 diabetes
FIELD researchers randomly assigned 9795 patients with type 2 diabetes aged 50 to 75 to once-daily micronized fenofibrate 200 mg (n=4895) or matched placebo (n=4900). Follow-up was a median of five years. Data on nontraumatic amputations were ...
Monday, May 18
Noninvasive salivary analysis detected diabetes, prediabetes
NJ While searching for biomarkers that may indicate diabetes, researchers examined the saliva of 40 patients; one-third had diabetes, another third had impaired glucose tolerance and/or impaired fasting glucose and the rest were clinically healthy ...
Friday, May 15
Insulin requirement much higher for post-transplant diabetes ...
Mean blood glucose was 218 mg/dL among patients with preexisting diabetes, and 180 mg/dL among those with steroid-induced hyperglycemia. The preexisting diabetes group did not achieve near euglycemia "so the insulin requirements were corrected to the ...
Wednesday, May 13
Bromocriptine mesylate approved for treatment of type 2 diabetes
NJ Patients with type 2 diabetes may have a new treatment option: bromocriptine mesylate, a drug that manages blood glucose via brain signals and targets the central nervous system. The drug has been approved by the FDA and will be marketed as Cycloset, ...
Monday, May 11
Chronic kidney disease, diabetes increase risk for hypoglycemia
30, 2005. They examined 2040206 records of individual glucose measurements for all patients. The data were linked with inpatient and outpatient information, outpatient event data sets and vital statistics for hypoglycemia or death. ...
