Watchful waiting reasonable for patients with diabetic macular edema and good vision
NIH-funded clinical trial finds starting treatment prior to vision loss unnecessary for most people; close monitoring essentialCredit: Brooksie Beard People ...
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First genome-wide association study (GWAS) for Type 2 diabetes in youth findings
Presented at Pediatric Academic Society Conference Pediatric diabetes and genetic researchers with the First Genome-Wide Association Study (GWAS) for Type ...
Drug treats Type 2 diabetes in children, team announces
Results of a recently completed clinical trial of a potential drug to treat Type 2 diabetes in children were announced ...
Intervention increases healthy behavior among South African adolescents
New research from the University of Pennsylvania found that a specially designed health intervention given to South African youth improved ...
Gestational diabetes in India and Sweden
Indian women are younger and leaner than Swedish women when they develop gestational diabetes, a new study from Lund University ...
Novel therapies slow CKD progression in patients with diabetes
Treatment options for patients with CKD are limited and often determined by the aetiology of the CKD. RAAS blockade (ACE ...
It’s OK to indulge once in a while: The body adapts to occasional short-term overeating
Body focuses on removing glucose to preserve insulin sensitivity in short-term overeating bout Rockville, Md. (April 25, 2019)--Overeating has been ...
Low awareness of hypertension and diabetes in China elderly causing public health concerns
Majority of Chinese who were diagnosed with hypertension and/or type 2 diabetes in 2011 said they were unaware of having ...
Wristbands do a health check while you work out
Credit: © KAUST 2019 Next-generation fitness sensors could give deeper insights into human health through noninvasive testing of bodily fluids. ...
Time-restricted eating shows benefits for blood glucose
By restricting the time period during which they could eat, researchers have seen promising results for controlling blood glucose levels ...
Pregnant women with type 1 diabetes are at risk of giving birth prematurely
Pregnant women with type 1 diabetes are at increased risk of delivering their baby prematurely. The risk increases as blood ...
How lifestyle affects our genes
In the past decade, knowledge of how lifestyle affects our genes, a research field called epigenetics, has grown exponentially. Researchers ...
Researchers find new novel circulating proteins involved in progression of DKD to ESRD
Credit: Joslin Communications BOSTON - (April 22, 2019) -- In a breakthrough study published today in Nature Medicine, researchers at ...
New insight into how obesity, insulin resistance can impair cognition
Credit: Dr. Alexis Stranahan lab AUGUSTA, Ga. (April 22, 2019) - Obesity can break down our protective blood brain barrier ...
Mount Sinai researchers discover that diabetes drug may reverse heart failure
Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have demonstrated that the recently developed antidiabetic drug empagliflozin can ...
Rare genetic change provides clues to pancreas development
Understanding pancreas formation could aid research into type 1 diabetes treatments Researchers have discovered a key clue into the development ...
Certain strains of bacteria associated with diabetic wounds that do not heal
Penn study implicates microbes in impaired wound healing that can lead to amputationCredit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Whether a wound--such ...
Omega-3 expert supports new research that shows omega-6 is good for you
New Circulation study shows those who consume the most omega-6 are less likely to develop CVD There has been a ...
Diabetic drug shown to reduce the risk of heart disease in non-diabetic patients
The commonly used diabetes drug metformin could reverse the harmful thickening of heart muscle that leads to cardiovascular disease, according ...
Maternal gestational diabetes linked to diabetes in children
Montreal, April 16th 2019 - Children of mothers who had gestational diabetes during pregnancy could be at increased risk of ...