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| MED | Tool Finds Best Heart Disease, Stroke Treatments for Patients with Diabetes
Researchers from North Carolina State University and the Mayo Clinic have developed a computer model that medical doctors can use to determine the best time to begin using statin therapy in diabetes patients to help prevent heart disease and stroke.
Medical Decision Making | 14-Aug-2009
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| MED | New Guides Compare Treatment for Gestational Diabetes
Two new guides released today can help women with gestational diabetes and their doctors make informed decisions about different treatments for the condition. Gestational diabetes is a potentially dangerous condition that affects 7 out of 100 pregnant women. | 13-Aug-2009
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| MED | Physicians Bust Myths About Insulin
People diagnosed with type 2 diabetes often resist taking insulin because they fear gaining weight, developing low blood sugar and seeing their quality of life decline.
Diabetes Care | 11-Aug-2009
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| MED | Radiation Therapy May Increase Diabetes Risk in Childhood Cancer Survivors
Childhood cancer survivors treated with total body or abdominal radiation may have an increased risk of diabetes, according to a report in the August 10/24 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. This correlation does not appear to be related to patients’ body mass index or physical inactivity. (Embargo expired on 10-Aug-2009 at 16:00 ET.)
Archives of Internal Medicine | 10-Aug-2009
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| MED | Joslin Study Identifies Gene Linked to Rare Form of Diabetes
Researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center have linked another gene to a rare form of diabetes, a finding that could prove beneficial to those with the more common type 2 diabetes. (Embargo expired on 10-Aug-2009 at 15:00 ET.)
PNAS | 10-Aug-2009
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| MED | New Approach Targets Gut Hormone to Lower Blood Sugar Levels
A research team led by Dr. Tony Lam at the Toronto General Research Institute and the University of Toronto discovered a novel function of a hormone found in the gut that might potentially lower glucose levels in diabetes.
Cell Metabolism, Aug-2009 | 05-Aug-2009
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| MED | Insufficient Sleep may be Linked to Increased Diabetes Risk
Short sleep times, experienced by many individuals in Westernized societies, may contribute to the development of insulin resistance and reduced glucose tolerance, which in turn may increase the long-term risk of diabetes, according to a new study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM). (Embargo expired on 03-Aug-2009 at 08:00 ET.)
J. of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism | 03-Aug-2009
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| MED | Common Diabetic Therapy Reduces Risk of Pancreatic Cancer
Taking the most commonly-prescribed anti-diabetic drug, metformin, reduces an individual's risk of developing pancreatic cancer by 62 percent, according to research from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, published in the Aug. 1 issue of Gastroenterology. (Embargo expired on 01-Aug-2009 at 00:00 ET.)
Gastroenterology | 01-Aug-2009
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| MED | Diabetes Gene Raises Odds of Lower Birth Weight
Pediatric researchers have found that a gene previously shown to be involved in the development of type 2 diabetes also predisposes children to having a lower birth weight. The finding sheds light on a possible genetic influence on how prenatal events may set the stage for developing diabetes in later childhood or adulthood.
Diabetes | 29-Jul-2009
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| MED | Antipsychotic Drugs Associated With High Blood Sugar in Older Adults With Diabetes
Older patients with diabetes who take antipsychotic medications appear to have an increased risk of hospitalization for hyperglycemia (elevated blood glucose level), especially soon after beginning treatment, according to a report in the July 27 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. (Embargo expired on 27-Jul-2009 at 16:00 ET.)
Archives of Internal Medicine, 27-Jul-2009 | 27-Jul-2009
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