News tagged with high blood glucose
New diabetes treatment lowers blood sugar with less need for insulin
Diabetes can result from either a deficiency of insulin (type 1 or insulin-dependent diabetes) or decreased sensitivity to insulin (type 2 diabetes). Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston have discovered a mechanism for ...
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Feb 16, 2011 |
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Study identifies blood glucose levels that predict 10-year risk of retinopathy
Individuals who have higher blood glucose levels and poorer control of those levels over time appear more likely to develop eye-related complications 10 years later, according to a report in the February issue of Archives of ...
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Feb 14, 2011 |
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Culprit found for increased stroke injury with diabetes
Strokes are a leading cause of mortality and adult disability. Those that involve intracerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) are especially deadly, and there are no effective treatments to control such bleeding. Moreover, ...
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Jan 23, 2011 |
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Enzyme action could be target for diabetes, heart disease treatments
Cardiac researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have found a new cellular pathway that could help in developing therapeutic treatments for obesity-related disorders, like diabetes and heart disease.
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Nov 16, 2010 |
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DASH eating plan lowers long-term heart attack risk, especially among African-Americans
The DASH eating plan, known to reduce blood pressure and bad cholesterol, also reduces the 10-year risk of heart attack, especially among African-Americans, according to research reported in Circulation: Cardiovascular Qu ...
Aug 31, 2010 |
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Mothers' high blood sugar in pregnancy is linked to children's reduced insulin sensitivity
Children of mothers whose blood glucose (sugar) was high during pregnancy are more likely to have low insulin sensitivity—a risk factor for type 2 diabetes—even after taking into consideration the children's body weight, ...
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Jun 22, 2010 |
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Grapes reduce risk factors for heart disease and diabetes, animal study shows
Could eating grapes slow what's for many Americans a downhill sequence of high blood pressure and insulin resistance leading to heart disease and type 2 diabetes?
Apr 26, 2010 |
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Four preventable risk factors reduce life expectancy in US and lead to health disparities
A new study led by researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) in collaboration with researchers from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington estimates ...
Mar 23, 2010 |
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Study results leave search for new diabetes and heart disease treatments unresolved
Treatment with the anti-hypertensive drug valsartan (Diovan) led to a modest reduction in the development of type 2 diabetes but did not significantly reduce cardiovascular events in patients with impaired glucose tolerance, ...
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Mar 15, 2010 |
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Monitoring of high-risk medications unchanged despite FDA warnings
A new study concludes that many doctors appear to have largely ignored a Food and Drug Administration warning to screen users of new antipsychotic drugs for high blood sugar and cholesterol, which poses risks to their health ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jan 12, 2010 |
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Metabolic risks remain largely unmonitored in Medicaid patients taking antipsychotics
Despite government warnings and professional recommendations about diabetes risks associated with second-generation antipsychotic drugs, fewer than one-third of Medicaid patients who are treated with these medications undergo ...
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Jan 04, 2010 |
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Mild glucose intolerance in pregnancy may be associated with cardiovascular risk
Mild glucose intolerance in pregnancy may be an early identifier of women who are at increased risk of heart disease in the future, found a new study http://www.cmaj.ca/press/cmaj090569.pdf published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journ ...
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Aug 24, 2009 |
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Could standard treatment for traumatic brain injury be wrong?
Traumatic brain injury — not heart disease, stroke or cancer — is the number one cause of death and disability in people under 45. Each year, some 1.5 million Americans, including soldiers, athletes, the elderly and children, ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 03, 2009 |
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New evidence of how high glucose damages blood vessels could lead to new treatments
New evidence of how the elevated glucose levels that occur in diabetes damage blood vessels may lead to novel strategies for blocking the destruction, Medical College of Georgia researchers say.
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May 11, 2009 |
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Researchers discover novel mechanisms that might causally link type-2 diabetes to Alzheimer's disease
A recent study by Mount Sinai faculty suggests that a gene associated with onset of type-2 diabetes also decreases in Alzheimer's disease dementia cases. The research, led by Dr. Giulio Maria Pasinetti, MD, Ph.D., The Aidekman ...
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Apr 10, 2009 |
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