News tagged with glucose tolerance
Chinese herbal medicines for preventing diabetes in high risk people
Oct 07, 2009 |
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More research is required to establish whether Chinese herbal medicines can reduce the likelihood of developing diabetes, according to Cochrane Researchers. Although herbal medicines are widely used in Asian countries to ...
Researcher offers a greater incentive to eat your greens
Sep 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Queensland PhD candidate and nutritionist Christine Houghton is set to investigate whether broccoli could help in the fight against diabetes.
Queen's study to test Canadian guidelines for daily exercise
Sep 09, 2009 |
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How hard and for how long should you exercise in order to shed excess abdominal fat and reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease?
Get the world on its feet: The role of exercise training
Aug 31, 2009 |
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Western societies are struggling to pay for their ever increasing medical budgets. In the US up to 393 billion US-$ were spent in 2005 for cardiovascular diseases alone. Based on epidemiologic studies in primary prevention ...
Carnitine supplements reverse glucose intolerance in animals
Aug 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Supplementing obese rats with the nutrient carnitine helps the animals to clear the extra sugar in their blood, something they had trouble doing on their own, researchers at Duke University Medical Center ...
Pluronic L-81 is a potential anti-diabetic drug?
Jul 08, 2009 |
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Pluronic surfactants are synthetic copolymers based on ethylene oxide and propylene oxide. It has been reported that a nonionic L-81, effectively inhibits absorption of dietary lipids from the intestine and secretion of VLDL ...
Glucose challenge test is accurate and economical for diabetes and prediabetes screening
Jun 25, 2009 |
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A test commonly used to help identify women with diabetes during pregnancy may be an accurate, convenient and inexpensive way to screen the general population for unrecognized diabetes and prediabetes, according to Emory ...
'Pre-diabetics' face heightened risk of heart disease
Mar 03, 2009 |
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The study, published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, was led by Jill P. Crandall, M.D., associate professor of clinical medicine and director of the Diabetes Clinical Trials Unit at Einstein.
Overweight siblings of children with type 2 diabetes likely to have abnormal blood sugar levels
Dec 09, 2008 |
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Overweight siblings of children with type 2 diabetes are four times more likely to have abnormal glucose levels compared to other overweight children. Because abnormal glucose levels may indicate risk for diabetes or diabetes ...
