Diabetes News Archive

A range of research in diabetes presented at the June 25-29 scientific gathering of the American Diabetes Association in Orlando, Fla., included several studies from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.

The eighth annual Dash for Diabetes Run took off from the Tourism Goderich location Saturday morning with several runners and walkers covering the eight-kilometre course in and around the town's waterfront. The annual fun run raises money for diabetes research, in part, for Huron County kids.

SYDNEY - THE growing popularity of Western junk food is fuelling a diabetes boom across South-east Asia, Australian researchers warned on Wednesday. Studies found about 11 per cent of men and 12 per cent of women in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City had type 2 diabetes without knowing it, on top of the four per cent of people who are diagnosed sufferers.

The growing popularity of Western junk food is fuelling a diabetes boom across Southeast Asia, Australian researchers warned on Wednesday.

(PhysOrg.com) -- In type 2 diabetes, a protein called amylin forms dense clumps that shut down insulin-producing cells, wreaking havoc on the control of blood sugar. But in people without diabetes, amylin doesn't misbehave; it actually pitches in to help with blood sugar regulation. What accounts for the difference?

Tight control of high blood pressure, recommended for those with diabetes by national guidelines, gives no better results than moderate control, according to a new study.

Research points to an alarming rate of undiagnosed diabetes across countries of South-East Asia.

In a meta-analysis of eight genome-wide association studies of type 2 diabetes involving more than 8,000 diabetes patients and nearly 39,000 controls of European descent, researchers from numerous institutions worked together to link DNA variants in 12 regions on the genome with increased risk of type 2 diabetes.

Context  Hypertension guidelines advocate treating systolic blood pressure (BP) to less than 130 mm Hg for patients with diabetes mellitus; however, data are lacking for the growing population who also have coronary artery disease (CAD). Objective  To determine the association of systolic BP control achieved and adverse cardiovascular outcomes in a cohort of patients with diabetes and CAD ...

Patients with hypertension, diabetes and coronary artery disease who maintained their systolic blood pressure at less than 130 mm Hg did not have improved cardiovascular outcomes compared to patients with usual blood pressure control, according to a study in the July 7 issue of JAMA.

The International Diabetes Federation says that diabetes cases in sub-Saharan Africa will double by 2030, affecting 24 million people. In the 34 poorest African countries, the cost of insulin for one person is more than double the average income, while traditional healers and misguided views on obesity are also exacerbating the problem.

TUESDAY, July 6 (HealthDay News) -- Cellular changes in fat tissue play a major role in the development of type 2 diabetes, a new study shows.

Australian research points to an alarming rate of undiagnosed diabetes across the increasingly "westernised" countries of South-East Asia.

We undertook a meta-analysis of individual records of diabetes, fasting blood glucose concentration, and other risk factors in people without initial vascular disease from studies in the Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration.

People with diabetes in three London health trusts may be involved in a trial scheme where they are directly given money to spend on services that could help them to manage their condition. There are already a number of Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) which are part of the pilot for personal health budgets, where people are able to choose what complementary and support services they want to use to ...

Sanofi-aventis (EURONEXT: SAN and NYSE: SNY) and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) announced today a unique partnership to develop therapeutic treatments for people with type 1 diabetes at different stages of the disease -- both those living with the disease and the newly diagnosed -- as well as preventing diabetes in those at risk.

BAHIA, Brazil There was no sign that Leticia Silva de Souza, 17, is living with diabetes one of the world's fastest growing non-communicable diseases.

Caitlin Baker has seen her American Indian peers accept diabetes as inevitable.