News tagged with diabetic complications

Can Wii help control gestational diabetes?

Many women have trouble finding time to exercise in their busy lifestyles. That's especially true for pregnant women who live in northern climates such as Canada, where the weather can limit outdoor activity during winter ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 13, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Food insecurity can lead to greater weight gain and complications during pregnancy

Living in a food-insecure household during pregnancy may increase the odds of greater weight gain and pregnancy complications, particularly gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), according to a new study published in the May ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 03, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Diabetes complications a huge health care burden in poorer countries, not just the developed world

A study published this week in PLoS Medicine finds that major diabetes complications are a huge economic burden to health care systems around the world, adding new evidence in an area that has focused on cost estimates almost ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Feb 23, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Sugary cola drinks linked for first time to higher risk of gestational diabetes

Researchers from LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Public Health, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), Harvard School of Public Health, Brigham and Women's ...

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created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Diabetics show alarming increase in morbid obesity

A Loyola University Health System study has found that one out of five Type 2 diabetics is morbidly obese -- approximately 100 pounds or more overweight.

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created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Good news on multiple sclerosis and pregnancy

There is good news for women with multiple sclerosis (MS) who are pregnant or thinking about becoming pregnant. A new study shows that pregnant women with multiple sclerosis are only slightly more likely to have cesarean ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

FDA backs drug that treats diabetes via the brain

(AP) -- People with Type 2 diabetes may soon get a very different treatment approach: A drug that helps control blood sugar via the brain - an idea sparked, surprisingly, by the metabolism of migrating birds.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created May 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Stem cell transplantation helps patients with diabetes become insulin free

The majority of patients with type 1 diabetes who underwent a certain type of stem cell transplantation became insulin free, several for more than three years, with good glycemic control, and also increased C-peptide levels, ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0