People With Serious Mental Illness Have Gaps in Knowledge of Type 2 Diabetes
This finding suggests that more education about type 2 diabetes is needed for those suffering from serious mental illnesses.
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Diabetic Nerve Therapy Shows 'Striking' Results
Research into a new treatment for nerve damage caused by diabetes could bring relief to millions of diabetic patients.
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Protein That Regulates Aging May Provide Key To New Diabetes Therapies
Opening the possibility of new therapies for type 2 diabetes, researchers have found that a protein called Sirt1 enhances the secretion of insulin in mice and allows them to better control blood glucose levels.
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Are You At Risk for Diabetes?
The rate of Type 2 diabetes has more than tripled in the last 30 years.
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Five Simple Nutrition Rules for People With Diabetes
Using lessons learned from a study of overweight adults with Type 2 diabetes, nutritionist Pat Harper, M.S., R.D., presents a sensible and realistic program for people who want to lose weight and improve diabetes control.
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Diabetics Fare Worse After Ankle Fracture Surgery
Patients with diabetes who require surgery for ankle fractures have significantly higher rates of complications and higher hospital costs compared to non diabetic patients.
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Gene Linked to Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity
Scientists in France and the United States report that a variant of a common protein plays a primary role in Type 2 diabetes and obesity, key features of the insulin resistance syndrome.
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New Blood Test Could Ease Life for Patients with Rare form of Diabetes
An extremely rare form of diabetes responds to a class of drugs used to treat type II diabetes.
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Are You Pre-Diabetic? How Does One Know?
It is called "pre diabetes" when a person has the complex of symptoms that indicate they are on their way to developing diabetes.
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Treating Diabetic Patients with Chest Pain
Diabetic patients with chest pain who have more than one other common risk factor for heart attack should be considered for direct admission for a complete cardiac workup.
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Burning or Tingling Feet May Be Early Warning of Pre-diabetes
Early signs of pre diabetes may include an increased tingling or burning in their arms or legs, or even significant pain in their feet.
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Stress Management Can Help Control Glucose in Type 2 Diabetes
Patients with type 2 diabetes who incorporate stress management techniques into their routine care can significantly reduce their average blood glucose levels.
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Plan Your Trip, Plan Your Diabetes Care and Then Go
People with diabetes who are getting more or less exercise than usual on vacation need to do their testing more aggressively.
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Diuretics Effective for People with Diabetes and High Blood Pressure
In people with diabetes, diuretics work as well as ACE inhibitors and calcium channel blockers.
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Diabetes and Foot Complications
People with diabetes must engage in daily foot care and have regular podiatric check ups.
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New Drug Treats Multiple Problems of People With Type 2 Diabetes
Type 2 Diabetes may be helped by a novel drug that lowers blood glucose and reduces weight and waist circumference, as well as modifying the disordered lipids associated with diabetic dyslipidemia.
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Tight Glucose Control Lowers CVD by about 50 Percent in Diabetes
Tight glucose control in people with type 1 diabetes contributes to lower risk of heart disease.
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Diabetic Retinopathy Occurs in Pre-Diabetes
Diabetic retinopathy has been found in nearly 8 percent of pre diabetic participants in the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP).
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Exercise Improves Insulin Sensitivity in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Moderate exercise can improve insulin sensitivity in women with polycystic ovary syndrome, a group with a high risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
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Diabetes Knowledge Has Little Effect on Improving Outcomes
Researchers finds little relationship between what a diabetic patient knows about the disease and control of its associated cardiovascular risk factors.
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Diabetes, Hypertension and Obesity Negatively Effect Joint Replacement Outcomes
Research determined that surgical patients with diabetes, hypertension or obesity were significantly more likely to suffer post operative complications.
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Low-Fat Dairy Foods May Help Reduce Risk of Type 2 Diabetes
Men consuming higher levels of dairy products, especially low fat dairy foods, have a significantly lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
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BWH Researchers Identify Antigen for Type 1 Diabetes
Treatment for type 1 diabetes includes taking insulin shots or using an insulin pump. Research has found a single antigen, insulin, that appears to trigger the body to attack its own insulin producing cells.
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Know Your Risk for Diabetes
The most common type of diabetes is called adult onset, or Type 2, diabetes, which usually occurs after age 40.
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Improved Blood Sugar Management in Critically Ill Patients
While many people with diabetes manage their blood sugar with frequent insulin injections, hospitalized patients often require intravenous insulin to quickly reduce high blood sugar levels.
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Living With Diabetes
Diabetes is a growing health problem. Currently, there is no clear cause and no known cure for the disease, which now affects more than 17 million people in the U.S.
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Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity: The Missing Link
Twin epidemics of obesity and type 2 diabetes are bearing down on the world's population. Obesity is known to significantly raise the risk of diabetes.
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Diabetes and Your Eyes
Eye Center urges people with diabetes to protect their vision by having a dilated eye exam every year.
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Using the Mind to Fight Diabetes
With diabetes reaching epidemic proportions among the U.S. population, patients and health providers are looking for new ways to help manage this serious condition.
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Type 2 Diabetics Can Lose Pounds, Take Less Medication with Dietician Support
The study, published in the July issue of the journal Diabetes Care, concluded that a case management approach led by registered dietitians can improve the health of obese people with type 2 diabetes at a modest cost.
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Future Diabetes Drugs May Target New Protein Interaction
Because the liver's production of sugar is a damaging problem in people with diabetes, the proteins' interaction might be a target for future drugs to fight the disease, the researchers say.
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Study to Show Cost-Effectiveness of Type 2 Diabetes Prevention
For those at risk of diabetes, prevention efforts are worth every penny. The new research shows that the costs of diabetes prevention are well within the range that American society has previously accepted for other preventive and curative health efforts.
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Diabetes a Bigger Heart Disease Risk for Women Than for Men
Women with diabetes have a significantly greater risk of dying from coronary heart disease (CHD) than men with diabetes. Diabetes is a well established CHD risk factor known to double a person's chance of dying from heart disease.
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Type 2 Diabetes and Pre-diabetes
Diabetes is a disorder that affects the way your body uses digested food for growth and energy. Pre diabetes, also called impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) or impaired fasting glucose (IFG), is a condition in which your blood glucose (blood sugar) levels are higher than normal but not high enough for a diagnosis of diabetes.
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Revised Definition Means Millions More Have Pre-Diabetes
"Pre diabetes" a condition that raises a person's risk of developing type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke, is far more common than previously believed. Every 25 seconds, someone in America is diagnosed with diabetes.
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The Coming Diabetes Explosion: a by-product of America's obesity epidemic
What we can do to reduce our risk for diabetes and diabetes related heart disease. A lot of the damage from Type 2 diabetes can be reversed.
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Diabetes Care Strategies: Finding and Future Research
There is a rich body of clinical evidence supporting current diabetes treatment methods, but the set of studies designed to help providers, patients, and policymakers improve the standard of care is not as strong.
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Diabetes Care Strategies
Diabetes is an endocrine disorder characterized by high blood sugar (hyperglycemia) and caused by an inability on the part of the pancreas to control blood sugar levels through production of the hormone insulin.
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Millions of American Indians and Alaska Natives at Increased Risk for Type 2 Diabetes
Pre diabetes is a condition that raises a person's risk of developing type 2 diabetes. American Indians and Alaska Natives are 2.3 times as likely to have diabetes as non Hispanic whites of similar age.
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FDA Approves Drug for Neuropathic Pain Associated With Diabetes
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced the approval of Cymbalta (duloxetine hydrochloride) capsules for the management of the pain associated with diabetic peripheral neuropathy.
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