http://medicalxpress.com/diabetes-news/ en-us Medical Xpress provides the latest research news on diabetes (Medical Xpress)—Flinders University researchers are breaking new ground in a decade-long journey to pinpoint the function of two closely related proteins. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-uncovers-potential-role-proteins-diabetes.html Diabetes Mon, 20 May 2013 07:29:17 EST news288253750 (HealthDay)—Moderate aerobic exercise prevents fructose-induced hypertriglyceridemia in healthy males, according to a study published online May 14 in Diabetes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-fructose-induced-hypertriglyceridemia.html Diabetes Fri, 17 May 2013 14:50:01 EST news288020790 A DNA variant near a digestive enzyme does not only affect risk of developing diabetes but also affects the response to treatment, an international consortium of researchers including the University of Dundee has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-dna-variant-affects-diabetes-treatment.html Diabetes Fri, 17 May 2013 08:10:03 EST news287996295 (Medical Xpress)—Development of a sophisticated artificial pancreas holds potential to transform the lives of patients with Type 1 diabetes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-artificial-pancreas-tabs-sugar.html Diabetes Thu, 16 May 2013 08:22:45 EST news287911356 Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers have discovered that a particular type of protein (hormone) found in fat cells helps regulate how glucose (blood sugar) is controlled and metabolized (used for energy) in the liver. Using experimental models and state-of-the-art technology, the scientists found that switching off this protein leads to better control of glucose production from the liver, revealing a potential new target that may be used to treat type 2 diabetes and other metabolic diseases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-discovery-hormone-doors-diabetes-treatments.html Diabetes Tue, 07 May 2013 12:00:05 EST news287139475 Type 1 diabetes may be triggered by an infectious disease carried by animals, say scientists. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-animal-infection-trigger-diabetes.html Diabetes Wed, 01 May 2013 08:33:45 EST news286616017 Two common conditions in pregnancy may be risk factors for future diabetes according to a Canadian study of over one million women published in this week's PLOS Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-common-pregnancy-conditions-future-diabetes.html Diabetes Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:30:41 EST news285352231 Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified a previously unknown biological mechanism involved in the regulation of pancreatic islet beta cells, whose role is to produce and release insulin. The discovery suggests a new therapeutic target for treating dysfunctional beta cells and type 2 diabetes, a disease affecting more than 25 million Americans. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-fractalkine-protein-diabetes.html Diabetes Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:00:11 EST news284898063 A team of researchers at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center has found that a protein long believed to have a minor role in type 2 diabetes is, in fact, a central player in the development of the condition that affects nearly 26 million people in the United States alone and counts as one of the leading causes of heart disease, stroke and kidney, eye and nerve damage. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-unusual-scientists-fiddle-protein-role.html Diabetes Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:41:35 EST news284895687 A new study found that higher levels of mercury exposure in young adults increased their risks for type 2 diabetes later in life by 65 percent. The study, led by Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington epidemiologist Ka He, is the first to establish the link between mercury and diabetes in humans. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-higher-mercury-humans-diabetes.html Diabetes Mon, 08 Apr 2013 04:18:29 EST news284613501 Research for diabetes is far more focused on drug therapies than preventive measures, and tends to exclude children and older people who have much to gain from better disease management, according to a Duke Medicine study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-treatments-dominate-diabetes.html Diabetes Fri, 05 Apr 2013 18:10:01 EST news284401446 With previous evidence suggesting that melatonin may have a role in glucose metabolism, researchers have found an independent association between decreased secretion of melatonin and an increased risk for the development of type 2 diabetes, according to a study in the April 3 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-decreased-melatonin-secretion-higher-diabetes.html Diabetes Tue, 02 Apr 2013 16:00:02 EST news284125986 Patients with type 2 diabetes who consume a diet identical to the strict regimen followed after bariatric surgery are just as likely to see a reduction in blood glucose levels as those who undergo surgery, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-diet-shown-critical-factor-diabetes.html Diabetes Tue, 02 Apr 2013 04:43:26 EST news284096579 (Medical Xpress)—Traditional Chinese medicine could be a key weapon in the treatment of type 2 diabetes, a joint international study has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-chinese-medicine-key-diabetes.html Diabetes Thu, 28 Mar 2013 07:16:02 EST news283673755 In a study of patients with type 1 diabetes, Joslin researchers found that dietary fat can affect glucose levels and insulin requirements. These findings, which appeared in the April edition of Diabetes Care, have major implications for the management of type 1 diabetes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-dietary-fat-affect-glucose-insulin.html Diabetes Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:47:34 EST news283614447 Women tend to carry excess fat in their hips and thighs, while men tend to carry it on their stomachs. But after menopause, things start to change: many women's fat storage patterns start to resemble those of men. This indicates that there's a link between estrogen and body fat storage. This connection is well documented, but the underlying mechanisms remained poorly understood until now. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-weight-menopause-estrogen-deficiency-affects.html Diabetes Wed, 27 Mar 2013 13:58:05 EST news283611479 (Medical Xpress)—Individuals who had taken a type of drug commonly used to treat Type 2 diabetes showed abnormalities in the pancreas, including cell proliferation, that may be associated with an increased risk of neuroendocrine tumors, according to a new study by researchers from UCLA and the University of Florida. Their findings were published online March 22 in the journal Diabetes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-popular-diabetes-drugs-abnormal-pancreatic.html Diabetes Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:27:52 EST news283588058 (Medical Xpress)—Type 1 diabetes is a condition in which the body does not produce insulin and cannot convert sugar, starches and other food into energy. Generally diagnosed during childhood or adolescence, the disease requires lifelong access to medical care and intensive daily self-management. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-youth-diabetes-greater-transition-pediatric.html Diabetes Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:23:51 EST news283422223 (HealthDay)—A staggering one in eight Americans has been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, a new Harris Interactive/HealthDay poll suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-americans-diabetes-poll.html Diabetes Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:39:32 EST news280597148 (HealthDay)—Estrogen treatment at the time of surgical menopause may reverse aspects of pathway-selective insulin resistance in the liver associated with a high-fat diet (HFD) in mice by promoting insulin action on glucose metabolism but limiting hepatic lipid deposition, according to a study published in the February issue of Diabetes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-estrogen-pathway-selective-insulin-resistance.html Diabetes Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:08:33 EST news280073296 (HealthDay)—In patients with type 2 diabetes and nephropathy, a lower creatinine excretion rate (CER) is associated with higher all-cause mortality, according to research published online Jan. 8 in Diabetes Care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-creatinine-excretion-linked-higher-mortality.html Diabetes Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:30:09 EST news279891948 New research has shown the presence of a disease affecting small blood vessels, known as microangiopathy, in the bone marrow of diabetic patients. While it is well known that microangiopathy is the cause of renal damage, blindness and heart attacks in patients with diabetes, this is the first time that a reduction of the smallest blood vessels has been shown in bone marrow, the tissue contained inside the bones and the main source of stem cells. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-diabetes-distresses-bone-marrow-stem.html Diabetes Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:00:01 EST news278869521 Binge drinking causes insulin resistance, which increases the risk of Type 2 diabetes, according to the results of an animal study led by researchers at the Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The authors further discovered that alcohol disrupts insulin-receptor signaling by causing inflammation in the hypothalamus area of the brain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-binge-diabetes-insulin-resistance.html Diabetes Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:00:01 EST news278783300 Minimally invasive islet transplantation for patients with type 1 diabetes achieves insulin independence and reverses the progression of atherosclerosis in the first few years after transplant, according to a University of Illinois at Chicago study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-islet-transplant-atherosclerosis.html Diabetes Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:04:04 EST news278597037 (HealthDay)—For the first time ever, the American Academy of Pediatrics has issued guidelines for the management of type 2 diabetes in children and teenagers aged 10 to 18. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-first-ever-guidelines-issued-diabetes-kids.html Diabetes Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:34:58 EST news278591688 (Medical Xpress)—Over the past two decades, the incidence of type 1 diabetes in very young children under age 5 has increased by 70 percent in the city of Philadelphia, according to research from a University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing researcher who currently maintains the only US registry of diabetes in children that has collected data continuously since 1985. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-diabetes-urban-children-skyrockets.html Diabetes Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:04:30 EST news278154264 Stanford University School of Medicine investigators have found that for people harboring a genetic predisposition that is prevalent among Americans, beta carotene, which the body converts to a close cousin of vitamin A, may lower the risk for the most common form of diabetes, while gamma tocopherol, the major form of vitamin E in the American diet, may increase risk for the disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-beta-carotene-people-common-genetic.html Diabetes Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:26:34 EST news278090787 A landmark discovery about how insulin docks on cells could help in the development of improved types of insulin for treating both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-image-insulin-docking-diabetes-treatments.html Diabetes Wed, 09 Jan 2013 13:00:11 EST news276954034 A team, led by senior author Morris J. Birnbaum, MD, PhD, the Willard and Rhoda Ware Professor of Medicine, with the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, found that the diabetes drug metformin works in a different way than previously understood. Their research in mice found that metformin suppresses the liver hormone glucagon's ability to generate an important signaling molecule, pointing to new drug targets. The findings were published online this week in Nature. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-most-used-diabetes-drug-previously-thought.html Diabetes Sun, 06 Jan 2013 13:00:31 EST news276685322 (HealthDay)—Treating mice fed a high-fat diet with telmisartan reverses insulin resistance and glucose intolerance, but only when the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-δ (PPAR-δ) gene is present, according to a study published online Dec. 13 in Diabetes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-telmisartan-reverses-insulin-resistance-mice.html Diabetes Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:40:01 EST news276442581