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The FINDRISC questionnaire has been used extensively to predict a person's degree of risk for getting type 2 diabetes, but new findings show that it does not adequately identify the most vulnerable individuals.
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A new cell treatment to enhance islet transplantation could help maintain healthy blood sugar levels in Type 1 diabetes without the need for multiple transplants of insulin producing cells or regular insulin injections, research ...
Jan 17, 2020
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New research covering the entire population of Hong Kong shows that while death rates from any cause (all-cause mortality), cardiovascular disease and cancer are plummeting overall and in adults with diabetes aged 45 to 74 ...
Jan 16, 2020
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(HealthDay)—In women with prepregnancy type 1 and 2 diabetes mellitus (PDM), induction of labor (IOL) is not associated with increased cesarean section rates compared with expectant management beyond 39 weeks, but it is ...
Jan 16, 2020
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As Thailand transitions to a high-middle-income country, noncommunicable chronic diseases such as diabetes are on the rise.
Jan 15, 2020
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Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is expected to pose a significant clinical and economic burden during the next 20 years for U.S. patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), according to a study published online Jan. ...
Jan 15, 2020
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Adults with type 2 diabetes newly prescribed a sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitor have a lower incidence of gout than those prescribed a glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist, according to a study ...
Jan 14, 2020
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A new computer algorithm can predict in the early stages of pregnancy, or even before pregnancy has occurred, which women are at a high risk of gestational diabetes, according to a study by researchers at the Weizmann Institute ...
Jan 14, 2020
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(HealthDay)—Among patients with type 1 diabetes and suboptimal glycemic control, replacement of an intermediate face-to-face visit with a telemedicine session did not affect outcomes, according to a study published online ...
Jan 13, 2020
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A new technology for detecting low glucose levels via ECG using a non-invasive wearable sensor, which with the latest artificial intelligence can detect hypoglycaemic events from raw ECG signals has been made by researchers ...
Jan 13, 2020
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Curtin University researchers have developed tiny capsules that are able to effectively target the liver and pancreas reducing the inflammatory effects of type two diabetes.
Jan 13, 2020
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One of the world's leading experts who developed revolutionary science demonstrating that type 2 diabetes is a reversible condition has launched his new book.
Jan 13, 2020
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Diabetic patients need to measure their blood-sugar level by drawing blood before and after a meal, and it is easy to develop complications due to diabetes. Recently, a research team from POSTECH developed technology that ...
Jan 10, 2020
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At only pennies per dose, metformin is a Type 2 diabetes drug with distant roots in Medieval folk medicine and a powerful capacity to reduce body weight, fat mass, circulating glucose—and prevent the disorder altogether ...
In a promising discovery that could improve the clinical delivery of insulin for people living with diabetes, scientists have developed a non-fibrillating form of human insulin.
Jan 10, 2020
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Gastric bypass vastly improves the health of the patients who elect to receive the surgery. Post-bariatric hypoglycemia, however, can be a severe complication experienced by 10 to 30 percent of patients.
Jan 09, 2020
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People with metabolic syndrome—a set of conditions including obesity, impaired glucose metabolism, elevated levels of fats and cholesterol in the blood, and high blood pressure—are more likely to experience recurrent ...
Jan 09, 2020
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A protein newly identified as important in type 1 diabetes can delay onset of the disease in diabetic mice, providing a new target for prevention and treatment in people, according to research led by scientists at the U.S. ...
Jan 09, 2020
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Researchers recently conducted the largest study to date to evaluate the effectiveness of weight loss surgery in a Chinese population of individuals with obesity and type 2 diabetes.
Jan 08, 2020
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A multi-center team of researchers led by Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) has discovered a genetic signature that could help distinguish an adult-onset form of diabetes sharing many type 1 diabetes (T1D) characteristics ...
Jan 08, 2020
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