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Low blood sugar in hospital linked to higher death risk

Low blood sugar in hospital linked to higher death risk

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created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Harvard researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) found that diabetics hospitalized for noncritical illnesses who develop hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) during hospitalization have ...


Severe hypoglycemia linked with higher risk of dementia for older adults with diabetes

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created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Having hypoglycemic (low blood sugar level) episodes that are severe enough to require hospitalization are associated with a greater risk of dementia for older adults with type 2 diabetes, according to a study in the April ...





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Low-carb diets prove better at controlling type 2 diabetes

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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

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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 ...


Discovery of new signal pathway important to diabetes research

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created Jun 04, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and Miami University have discovered that cells in the pancreas cooperate – signal – in a way hitherto unknown. The discovery can eventually be of significance to the treatment ...


Right breakfast bread keeps blood sugar in check all day

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created Sep 05, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (18) | comments 0

If you eat the right grains for breakfast, such as whole-grain barley or rye, the regulation of your blood sugar is facilitated after breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It was previously not known that certain whole-grain products ...


Mothers' high normal blood sugar levels place infants at risk for birth problems

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created May 07, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pregnant women with blood sugar levels in the higher range of normal—but not high enough to be considered diabetes—are more likely than women with lower blood sugar levels to give birth to babies at risk for many of the same ...


Diabetics’ heart attack risk can be reduced, research finds

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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. ...


Master gene plays key role in blood sugar levels

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created Nov 27, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

When mice that lack steroid receptor-2 (SRC-2) – a master regulator gene called a coactivator – fast for a day, their blood sugar levels plummet. If they go another day without food, they will die.


Contact lenses check blood sugar

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created Nov 13, 2006 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0

A scientist in Baltimore has developed a contact lens that can provide diabetics with a non-invasive way to monitor blood sugar.


Body clock linked to diabetes and high blood sugar

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created Dec 07, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 2

Diabetes and high levels of blood sugar may be linked to abnormalities in a person's body clock and sleep patterns, according to a genome-wide association study published today in the journal Nature Genetics.


Testosterone Decreases after Ingestion of Sugar

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created Jun 14, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Men with low testosterone should have their hormone levels retested after they fast overnight because eating may transiently lower testosterone levels, a new study concludes.



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