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| Aggressive Diabetes Care Doesn't Prevent Deaths
Aggressively treating diabetes does not prevent heart problems and deaths any better than standard treatment for lowering blood sugar, Australian researchers reported Friday. It's the second large study, involving thousands of patients, to show no heart benefit from drastically lowering diabetics' blood sugar levels. Experts said doctors should stick to the recommended target levels. |
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| Alzheimer's And Diabetes: Lethal Partners
People with diabetes have a higher risk of developing Alzheimer's disease — and doctors don't know why. But researchers have found that compared with Alzheimer's patients who never developed diabetes, those who had both conditions and received diabetes therapy had 80% fewer brain-clogging amyloid plaques, a physical sign of Alzheimer's. |
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| Artificial Pancreas Would Dial Up Diabetes Control
The artificial pancreas, which would be worn externally and supplied with insulin, would reduce those highs and lows, Damiano says. "We call it a closed-loop system. It's comprised of three parts: a continuous glucose monitor, an insulin pump and a computer chip that allows the two devices to 'talk' to each other and calculate how much insulin a patient needs at any given time." |
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| Aspirin Does Not Prevent Heart Attacks In Diabetes Patients
Taking regular aspirin and antioxidant supplements does not prevent heart attacks even in high risk groups with diabetes and asymptomatic arterial disease, and aspirin should only be given to patients with established heart disease, stroke or limb arterial disease, according to a study published today on bmj.com. |
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| Controlling Depression May Help Control Glucose
Researchers from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis studied 93 adult patients with type 2 diabetes who had major depression. Depression is a mental illness in which a person is profoundly sad and has a loss of interest in things he or she once found pleasurable. Previous studies have shown that having depression is an independent risk factor for developing type 2 diabetes. |
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| Depression Linked to Impotence in Diabetic Men
Men and women who have had diabetes for many years often experience various types of sexual dysfunction. Causes include high blood pressure, hardening of the arteries and a type of nerve damage called autonomic neuropathy. Now researchers in Italy and at the University of California, Irvine report that depression is also a leading risk factor for erectile dysfunction in diabetic men. |
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| Diabetes May Increase Risk Of Developing TB
To clarify the link between the diseases, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston examined data on 1.7 million people from 13 studies done in Canada, Mexico, the United States, Britain, Russia, Taiwan, India and South Korea. |
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| Diabetes Study Partially Halted After Deaths
For decades, researchers believed that if people with diabetes lowered their blood sugar to normal levels, they would no longer be at high risk of dying from heart disease. But a major federal study of more than 10,000 middle-aged and older people with Type 2 diabetes has found that lowering blood sugar actually increased their risk of death, researchers reported Wednesday. |
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| Diabetic Women Likelier To Die After Heart Attack
Women younger than age 65 with diabetes tend to have worse cardiovascular risk profiles than diabetic men of the same age, leading to higher death rates following a heart attack, research shows. |
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| Gene Increases Diabetes Risk, Scientists Find
The finding is being reported today in the journal Nature Genetics by researchers at Decode Genetics, a company in Reykjavik, Iceland, that specializes in finding the genetic roots of human diseases. Decode Genetics first found the variant gene - one of many different versions that exist in the human population - in Icelanders and has now confirmed the finding in a Danish and an American population. |
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| Helping To Calculate Diabetes Risk Using Coping And Copulation Behavior Data
Risk of developing type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome is determined by an individual's genetic background. Since this background has in turn been influenced by environment and behavior, it's important to consider these factors when assessing disease risk. While scientists have learned a lot about human disease through research in traditional laboratory mice, there are limits in studying genetic variation since controlled breeding and diet introduces artificially influences. |
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| In Diabetes, a Complex of Causes
The fifth leading killer of Americans, with 73,000 deaths a year, diabetes is a disease in which the body’s failure to regulate glucose, or blood sugar, can lead to serious and even fatal complications. Until very recently, the regulation of glucose — how much sugar is present in a person’s blood, how much is taken up by cells for fuel, and how much is released from energy stores — was regarded as a conversation between a few key players: the pancreas, the liver, muscle and fat. |
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| Jonas Brothers Feel Personal Connection to Hope Ball for Diabetes
The song, which the 16-year-old member of the Jonas Brothers wrote, addresses his personal struggle with diabetes, a disease he was diagnosed with three years ago. "On the day that I got diagnosed, I heard about this event," Jonas said of the ball, which benefits the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes. "And I knew it was something that I wanted to be a part of. To be here tonight to perform is a dream come true for us and for me, it's truly an honor." |
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| Panic Attacks Can Worsen Diabetes
Many but not all studies have found depression and anxiety to be more common in diabetic individuals than in nondiabetics. Researchers in Seattle examined the prevalence of panic attacks in people with diabetes. Panic attacks are sudden, brief episodes of fear and anxiety that cause symptoms such as a racing heartbeat, sweating and shortness of breath. |
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| Scientists Identify 7 New Diabetes Genes
Researchers said yesterday that they had identified seven new genes connected to the most common form of diabetes — the latest result of an intensifying race between university researchers and private companies to find genes linked to a range of diseases. |
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| Survival Of Diabetic Mice Improved After Transplantation Of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Derived ILCs
Geron Corporation (Nasdaq:GERN) today announced the publication of data showing the successful engraftment of human embryonic stem cell (hESC)-derived pancreatic islet-like clusters (ILCs) in diabetic mice. After transplantation, the ILCs continued to express important pancreatic islet proteins, responded to high levels of glucose in the blood, and extended the survival of recipient animals. |
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