News tagged with glycosylated hemoglobin

Extreme glucose levels in diabetic patients with heart failure linked to increase risk of deaths

Compared with patients with moderately controlled glucose levels, diabetic patients who have heart failure and either too high or too low glucose levels may be at increased risk of death, said researchers at Baylor College ...

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Why can surgical treatment improve type 2 diabetes mellitus?

Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) is a commonly used surgical treatment for patients with morbid obesity. It significantly and persistently decreases the levels of blood glucose and glycosylated hemoglobin in 80-100 percent ...

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created May 12, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

People with diabetes are at higher risk of atrial fibrillation

As the U.S. population keeps aging and gaining weight, diabetes is becoming increasingly common. Some research has associated diabetes with the most common kind of chronically irregular heartbeat, called atrial fibrillation, ...

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Association of tight glycemic control with road crashes in diabetic patients

A study from Canada published this week in PLoS Medicine suggests an association between tighter glycemic control and an increased risk of a motor vehicle crash in diabetic adults. Using a population-based case control analys ...

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Is inhaled insulin delivery still a possibility? Why has it been a commercial failure?

The commercial failure of Exubera (Pfizer, New York, NY), the first inhaled insulin product to come to market, led other companies such as Eli Lilly-Alkermes to halt studies of similar drug delivery in development intended ...

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created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Standard test for blood sugar control not accurate in diabetic dialysis patients

The standard test for measuring blood sugar control in people with diabetes is not accurate in those on kidney hemodialysis, according to new research at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.

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created Feb 20, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0


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