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How to get obese mice moving -- and cure their diabetes

How to get obese mice moving -- and cure their diabetes

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Mice lacking the fat hormone leptin or the ability to respond to it become morbidly obese and severely diabetic—not to mention downright sluggish. Now, a new study in the June Cell Metabolism shows that b ...





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Low-carb diets prove better at controlling type 2 diabetes

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

In a six-month comparison of low-carb diets, one that encourages eating carbohydrates with the lowest-possible rating on the glycemic index leads to greater improvement in blood sugar control, according to Duke University ...


Self-monitoring of blood glucose

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Diabetes patients should always control their own blood sugar values if this leads to improvements in their treatment. This is the view advocated by Michael Nauck of the Bad Lauterberg Diabetes Center and his coauthors in ...


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

Medicine & Health / Other

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

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.


Some light shed on blood sugar production

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 30, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0

A University of Alberta diabetes researcher has collaborated on a body of diabetes research that has unravelled the signalling pathway mystery that controls the production of blood sugar.


Regulating the sugar factory in diabetes

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists in Sydney and Boston believe they may have identified a gene that controls abnormal production of sugar in the liver, a very troublesome problem for people with diabetes.


Diabetics’ heart attack risk can be reduced, research finds

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created May 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- People with diabetes who maintain intensive, low blood sugar levels are significantly less likely to suffer heart attacks and coronary heart disease, new research published today in The Lancet has shown. ...


Stopping diabetes damage with vitamin C

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jun 09, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 3

Researchers at the Harold Hamm Oklahoma Diabetes Center have found a way to stop the damage caused by Type 1 diabetes with the combination of insulin and a common vitamin found in most medicine cabinets.


Disruption of blood sugar levels after heart surgery is common

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 07, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A study reveals today that inadequate blood sugar control in patients having heart surgery is associated with a four fold increase in post-surgery death and major complications - and that the blood sugar disturbances occur ...


Claim: Diabetes study increases death risk

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created Feb 07, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Experts have ended part of a study which aimed to lessen diabetics' heart disease risk after they found it increased death risks, a report said.


Diabetics' heart attack risk can be reduced, research finds

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created May 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

People with diabetes who maintain intensive, low blood sugar levels are significantly less likely to suffer heart attacks and coronary heart disease, new research published today in The Lancet has shown.



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