May 22, 2012
By Kathleen Doheny
HealthDay Reporter
TUESDAY, May 22 (HealthDay News) — Researchers who say they’ve linked type 2 diabetes with earlier development of precancerous colon lesions recommend people with the blood sugar disorder start colorectal screenings at a younger age than others.
“Based on our data, it implies that people with diabetes should get screenings earlier, possibly at age 40, rather than at age 50,” said Dr. Hongha Vu, a clinical gastroenterology fellow at Washington University in St. Louis.
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May 21, 2012
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By Amanda Gardner
MONDAY, May 21, 2012 (Health.com) — The proportion of U.S. adolescents with diabetes or borderline diabetes has jumped dramatically since the late 1990s, raising the possibility that this generation of young people may face high rates of heart disease and other complications as adults.
As of 2008, 23% of adolescents between the ages of 12 and 19 had diabetes or the precursor condition known as prediabetes, up from just 9% in 1999, according to a new analysis of national survey data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Read More
May 21, 2012
By Serena Gordon
HealthDay Reporter
MONDAY, May 21 (HealthDay News) — Many American teenagers, including some with a normal, healthy weight, already have one or more risk factors for heart disease, researchers say.
About 22 percent of today’s teens have borderline-high or already high LDL cholesterol — that’s the bad type. And 15 percent have pre-diabetes or diabetes, according to the new research based on data spanning from 1999 to 2008.
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May 17, 2012
By Serena Gordon
HealthDay Reporter
THURSDAY, May 17 (HealthDay News) — Many people know diabetes — both type 1 and type 2 — can take a serious toll on physical health. But these blood-sugar disorders also can affect your emotions and, in turn, your emotions can wreak havoc on your diabetes control.
Extremes in blood-sugar levels can cause significant mood changes, and new research suggests that frequent changes in blood-sugar levels (called glycemic variability) also can affect mood and quality of life for those with diabetes.
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May 14, 2012
MONDAY, May 14 (HealthDay News) — In black Americans with type 1 diabetes, narrowing of the small arteries in the eye’s retina (retinal arteriolar narrowing) is associated with increased risk for cardiovascular disease, a new study finds.
“Retinal arteriolar narrowing has long been described as one of the characteristic changes associated with hypertension [high blood pressure] and cardiovascular disease,” Dr. Monique Roy, of the Institute of Ophthalmology and Visual Science at the University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey Medical School, and colleagues wrote as background information in the study, which is published in the May issue of the journal Archives of Ophthalmology.
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May 8, 2012
TUESDAY, May 8 (HealthDay News) — Eating too quickly may raise your risk of diabetes, a small, preliminary study suggests.
Researchers from Lithuania compared 234 people with type 2 diabetes and 468 people without the disease and found that those who gobble down their food were 2.5 times more likely to have diabetes than those who take their time while eating.
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April 20, 2012
THURSDAY, April 19 (HealthDay News) — It’s not clear whether patients with type 2 diabetes gain any long-term benefit from taking the blood sugar-lowering drug metformin and insulin together rather than insulin alone.
That’s the conclusion of Danish researchers who reviewed data from 23 clinical trials involving more than 2,200 patients over the age of 18.
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April 19, 2012
By Serena Gordon
HealthDay Reporter
THURSDAY, April 19 (HealthDay News) — Type 2 diabetes is a complex metabolic disorder, and treating the disease often requires a personalized, multi-pronged approach, say new expert guidelines on treating high blood sugar levels, issued Thursday.
The recommendations are a joint effort by the American Diabetes Association and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes.
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April 16, 2012
By Kathleen Doheny
HealthDay Reporter
MONDAY, April 16 (HealthDay News) — A bariatric surgical procedure is more likely than medicine to improve or even reverse type 2 diabetes in very obese patients, a new small study indicates.
Italian researchers compared standard diabetes medicine with a surgical procedure known as the laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, and while 80 percent of those treated with the surgery had remission of their diabetes within 18 months, none of those treated with medicine did.
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April 12, 2012
By Serena Gordon
HealthDay Reporter
THURSDAY, April 12 (HealthDay News) — A potential new treatment for type 2 diabetes targets the hormone glucagon instead of insulin, according to a new study in mice.
Although the research hasn’t yet progressed past animal models of the disease, initial results suggest that the novel therapy can lower blood sugar, decrease insulin resistance, lower cholesterol and help keep fatty deposits from settling in the liver.
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