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Automatic suspension of insulin delivery via insulin pumps reduces hypoglycemia

An automated on/off feature built into insulin pump systems can suspend insulin delivery when it detects low blood glucose levels (via continuous glucose monitoring), significantly reducing the severity and duration of hypoglycemia ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Diabetes linked to higher rate of birth defects

(Medical Xpress) -- Pregnant women with diabetes are almost four times more likely to have a baby with a birth defect than women without the condition and the likelihood is linked to the mother's glucose level, ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Elevated glucose associated with undetected heart damage

A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health suggests that hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) injures the heart, even in patients without a history of heart disease or diabetes. Researchers ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Collaboration advances type 1 diabetes care research

(Medical Xpress) -- A study found that children with Type 1 diabetes experienced less time in deep sleep than children without diabetes, resulting in higher glucose levels, reduced quality of life and lower grades.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New NIH fact sheet explains test for diabetes, prediabetes

A new fact sheet from the National Institutes of Health explains the A1C test, a widely used and important test to diagnose type 2 diabetes and prediabetes, and to monitor blood glucose levels of people with type 1 and type ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Lifestyle counseling reduces time to reach treatment goals for people with diabetes

Lifestyle counseling, practiced as part of routine care for people with diabetes, helps people more quickly lower blood glucose, blood pressure and cholesterol levels and keep them under control, according to a large, long-term ...

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created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Biochip measures glucose in saliva, not blood

For the 26 million Americans with diabetes, drawing blood is the most prevalent way to check glucose levels. It is invasive and at least minimally painful. Researchers at Brown University are working on a ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

For diabetics not on insulin, self-monitoring blood sugar has no benefit

For type 2 diabetics who are not on insulin, monitoring their blood sugar does little to control blood sugar levels over time and may not be worth the effort or expense, according to a new evidence review.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Stem cell therapy reverses diabetes

Type 1 diabetes is caused by the body's own immune system attacking its pancreatic islet beta cells and requires daily injections of insulin to regulate the patient's blood glucose levels. A new method described in BioMed ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Added benefit of linagliptin is not proven

Linagliptin (trade name: Trajenta) has been approved since August 2011 to improve blood glucose control ("glycaemic control") in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus whose elevated blood glucose levels are inadequately controlled ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Experts suggest all hospitalized patients have blood glucose levels tested

Hyperglycemia, or having high glucose levels in the blood, is a common, serious and costly health care problem in hospitalized patients. Today, The Endocrine Society released a clinical practice guideline (CPG) providing ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Student team's glucose sensor uses DNA instead of chemicals

People with diabetes may one day have a less expensive resource for monitoring their blood glucose levels, if research by a group of Missouri University of Science and Technology students becomes reality.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists find missing link in regulation of glucose

(Medical Xpress) -- A team led by USC neuroscientist Alan Watts identified for the first time a biochemical signal that helps regulate the amount of glucose in the blood.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

High blood sugar levels in older women linked to colorectal cancer

Elevated blood sugar levels are associated with an increased risk of colorectal cancer, according to a study led by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. The findings, observed in nearly ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Vitamin D-fortified yoghurt improves cholesterol levels and heart disease biomarkers for diabetics

People with diabetes are known to have an increased risk of heart disease. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Medicine shows that regular consumption of a vitamin D-fortified yoghurt drink ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0