Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 who had a combination of high blood pressure, obesity and diabetes were over three times more likely to die from the disease, according to a new Tulane University study.
Aug 25, 2020
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Healthy people—especially women—with elevated levels of the heart failure marker NT-proBNP have a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes. However, if these people develop diabetes nonetheless, they are more likely to ...
Aug 18, 2020
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A large cohort study conducted by the Faculty of Medicine at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CU Medicine), in collaboration with investigators from the University of Sydney, Australia, has discovered that shortened DNA ...
Aug 11, 2020
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(HealthDay)—Since 2009, diabetes-related nontraumatic lower-extremity amputation (NLEA) has been increasing among older adults, according to a study published online July 28 in Diabetes Care.
Aug 6, 2020
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Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) tracks glucose levels of people with type I or type II diabetes through a device that monitors levels throughout the day. These devices improve control of blood sugar levels by alerting ...
Jul 31, 2020
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(HealthDay)—Patients with diabetes admitted to a tertiary care center for diabetic foot ulceration (DFU) during the COVID-19 lockdown in Italy had a more than threefold risk for amputation versus patients seen in 2019, ...
Jul 30, 2020
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(HealthDay)—Influenza vaccination may improve outcomes in patients with diabetes, according to a study published online July 9 in Diabetes Care.
Jul 17, 2020
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Adults with type 2 diabetes that have no history, signs or symptoms of heart problems have been shown to have severely limited exercise capacity, according to researchers at the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) ...
Jul 17, 2020
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Researchers from the School of Biomedical Sciences of the Faculty of Medicine at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CU Medicine) have recently applied an advanced statistical approach to analyze risk factors that may be ...
Jul 9, 2020
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Historically, half or more of people with type 1 diabetes develop kidney disease, which frequently progresses to kidney failure, requiring dialysis treatment or kidney transplantation for survival, according to a study in ...
Jun 25, 2020
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