TYPE I DIABETES |
| Care For Children And Adolescents Living With Diabetes
Diabetes is one of the most common chronic diseases to affect children. Every day more than 200 children are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, requiring them to take multiple daily insulin shots and monitor the glucose levels in their blood. It is increasing at a rate of 3% each year among children and rising even faster in pre-school children at a rate of 5% per year. Currently, over 500,000 children under the age of 15 live with diabetes, according to IDF. |
Diabetes Control Won’t Normalize Menstruation
Good metabolic control and intensive insulin treatment doesn't normalize the onset of menstruation, which is usually delayed in girls with type 1 diabetes compared with girls without the disease, study findings confirm. |
| Glycemic Control Seems To Lower Type 1 Diabetics' Retinopathy Risk
Many people who have Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes develop retinopathy, a serious disorder that damages the eye's retina, the area of the back of the eye where images are focused and relayed to the brain's visual cortex. Ophthalmologists (Eye M.D.s) monitor their diabetic patients for signs of retinopathy and use lifestyle recommendations, medications, and surgical approaches as appropriate to reduce the risk that diabetic retinopathy (DR) will progress to the proliferative stage (PDR), in which abnormal blood vessel growth leads to visual impairment. In recent years the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of DR and PDR have improved markedly. |
| Onset Of Type I Diabetes May Be Delayed By Green Tea
A powerful antioxidant in green tea may prevent or delay the onset of type I diabetes, Medical College of Georgia researchers say. Researchers were testing EGCG, green tea's predominant antioxidant, in a laboratory mouse with type I diabetes and primary Sjogren's syndrome, which damages moisture-producing glands, causing dry mouth and eyes. |
TYPE II DIABETES |
| Earlier Treatment Helps Address The Growing Medical And Economic Burden Of Type 2 Diabetes
"Diabetes-related complications such as heart disease, stroke and kidney disease account for many of the costs associated with diabetes. As the survey opinion results have highlighted, treating patients earlier is a preferred approach. Whether greater flexibility in prescribing would help to reduce the likelihood of complications developing, and in turn help to lower the increasing financial demands diabetes places on healthcare budgets, needs further study," said Professor Anthony Barnett, survey steering panel member and Diabetologist and Professor of Medicine, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. |
| Fatty Liver Often Leads to Diabetes
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NFLD) is a buildup of fat in liver cells that is not caused by alcohol abuse. Type 2 diabetes is a metabolic disorder in which the body develops difficulty using the hormone insulin to process glucose for energy. Obesity is a major risk factor for both disorders. |
| Global Survey Indicates Less Than Half Of Diabetes Patients Achieve Blood Glucose
New worldwide research indicates that, less than 50% of type 2 diabetes patients* are achieving target long-term blood glucose measures (HbA1c)1, and 40% of patients are experiencing diabetes complications. These results are being announced in support of World Diabetes Day (WDD), an annual campaign run by the International Diabetes Federation. WDD also heralds the beginning of a national search to find 'The Face of Diabetes'. |
| Living at an Epicenter of Diabetes, Defiance and Despair
Santos Alicea tottered haltingly over to the art shop in East Harlem, his legs screaming. The regulars knew what he was going through. They always did - the diabetes was speaking. He confirmed this with numerical rigor: 228, his nasty blood-sugar reading this morning. Nods all around. They had ugly numbers, too. |
| Looking Past Blood Sugar to Survive With Diabetes
Blood sugar control is important in diabetes, specialists say. It can help prevent dreaded complications like blindness, amputations and kidney failure. But controlling blood sugar is not enough. Nearly 73,000 Americans die from diabetes annually, more than from any disease except heart disease, cancer, stroke and pulmonary disease. |
| Women May Get Diabetes Earlier Than Men
Women may show signs of diabetes far earlier than men, according to new research. The findings could lead to new diabetes screening procedures to help identify who is at greatest risk of developing the disease. Recent research has shown that levels of chronic sub-acute inflammation, blood clotting factors and dysfunction in the cells lining the inside of arteries may be indicators of diabetes risk factors when tested in the blood. |