http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (Medical Xpress)—A pilot medical program at Virginia Tech will use an automated calling system as part of larger program to help adults who are at risk for developing diabetes. The calls will be designed to encourage patients to take action that could prevent or delay the onset of the disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-adults-onset-diabetes.html Health Tue, 04 Dec 2012 07:04:46 EST news273827078 Old Order Amish children are much more physically active and three times less likely to be overweight than non-Amish children, which may provide them with some long-term protection against developing Type 2 diabetes, University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers report in the journal Diabetes Care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-amish-children-physically-non-amish.html Diabetes Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:00:04 EST news270226382 (HealthDay)—For patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D), having a genetic predisposition towards the disease is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), according to a study published online Oct. 15 in Diabetes Care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-genetic-predisposition-diabetes-ups-cvd.html Cardiology Tue, 23 Oct 2012 15:10:02 EST news270222568 Researchers in Sweden have discovered that neurotensin, a satiation hormone produced in the human brain and intestine that circulates in the blood, could raise the risk of heart attack, breast cancer and diabetes in women. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-satiation-hormone-neurotensin-linked-disease.html Medical research Fri, 19 Oct 2012 08:50:06 EST news269851556 (Medical Xpress)—Rates of diagnosed diabetes are much higher among some Asian subgroups than is apparent when aggregating all Asians as a whole, according to a new study by the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) which appears in the current online issue of Diabetes Care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-pacific-islanders-south-asians-filipinos.html Diabetes Tue, 16 Oct 2012 07:59:07 EST news269593141 (Medical Xpress)—By sticking to a healthy diet in the years after pregnancy, women who develop diabetes during pregnancy can greatly reduce their risk of developing type 2 diabetes, a study supported by the National Institutes of Health has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-women-gestational-diabetes-solely-dietary.html Health Wed, 10 Oct 2012 08:50:01 EST news269076904 A research team led by Anna Floegel of the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE) and Tobias Pischon of the Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) has identified 14 novel biomarkers for type 2 diabetes. They can serve as basis for developing new methods of treatment and prevention of this metabolic disease. The biomarkers can also be used to determine diabetes risk at a very early point in time. At the same time the markers enable insight into the complex mechanisms of this disease, which still have not been completely elucidated. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-team-biomarkers-diabetes.html Diabetes Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:00:01 EST news268571259 The randomised trial, which is the first ever study evaluating the effect of type 2 diabetes screening programmes on overall mortality rates in a population, assessed the number of deaths over ten years in a group of more than 20 000 patients across 32 general practices in Eastern England. The patients were all aged between 40 and 69 years, and were assessed as being at high risk of diabetes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-diabetes-screening-reduction-mortality.html Diabetes Wed, 03 Oct 2012 18:30:01 EST news268504830 The increasingly common condition of gestational diabetes can have serious consequences for both the mother and child if left untreated. Prompt diagnosis and therapy can protect against these consequences. A new testing method developed at the MedUni Vienna now makes diagnosis easier and also cheaper. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-newly-simple-gestational-diabetes.html Diabetes Tue, 02 Oct 2012 09:40:03 EST news268389596 As part of their ongoing research investigating the biology of aging, the greatest risk factor for type 2 diabetes and other serious diseases, scientists at Joslin Diabetes Center have identified a new factor—microRNA processing in fat tissue—which plays a major role in aging and stress resistance. This finding may lead to the development of treatments that increase stress resistance and longevity and improve metabolism. The findings appear in the September 5 online edition of Cell Metabolism. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-scientists-molecular-fat-cells-stress.html Medical research Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:18:45 EST news267891514 Scientists have been trying to explain the causes of diabetes for many years. Researchers at the University of Copenhagen and Novo Nordisk A/S have now shown that the increased activity of one particular iron-transport protein destroys insulin-producing beta cells. In addition, the new research shows that mice without this iron transporter are protected against developing diabetes. These results have just been published in the prestigious journal Cell Metabolism. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-diabetes-linked-iron.html Diabetes Thu, 20 Sep 2012 12:20:45 EST news267362437 (HealthDay)—There is an inverse relationship between hip circumference and risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), according to a meta-analysis published online Sept. 3 in Obesity Reviews. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-hip-circumference-inversely-tied-diabetes.html Overweight and Obesity Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:00:02 EST news267192684 Obese adults with excess visceral fat (fat located inside the abdominal cavity, around the body's internal organs) and biomarkers of insulin resistance had an associated increased risk for the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus, while obese individuals with higher amounts of total body fat and subcutaneous fat (underneath the skin) did not have this increased risk, according to a study in the September 19 issue of JAMA, and theme issue on obesity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-obese-adults-excess-abdominal-fat.html Diabetes Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:04:00 EST news267185033 The Endocrine Society today issued a Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) for the diagnosis and treatment of hypertriglyceridemia. Triglycerides are a type of fat found in the blood and are associated with cardiovascular risk. The CPG, entitled "Evaluation and Treatment of Hypertriglyceridemia: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline" appears in the September 2012 issue of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (JCEM), a publication of The Endocrine Society. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-experts-screening-adults-hypertriglyceridemia-years.html Other Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:26:08 EST news266243103 (HealthDay)—In healthy, lean, young men, the presence of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) correlates with insulin resistance and compensatory hyperinsulinemia to maintain normal glucose levels, according to a study published online Aug. 21 in Diabetes Care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-apnea-tied-insulin-resistance-young.html Diabetes Wed, 29 Aug 2012 04:23:26 EST news265432863 The benefits of taking statins to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease outweigh the increased risk of developing diabetes experienced by some patients who take these cholesterol-lowering drugs, according to an Article published Online First in The Lancet. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-cardiovascular-benefits-statins-outweigh-diabetes.html Diabetes Thu, 09 Aug 2012 18:30:01 EST news263738102 A new diabetes study at the University of Leicester has discovered that South Asians (people of Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Sri Lanka origin) have higher levels of blood sugar than white Europeans independent of risk factors that influence sugar levels. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-blood-sugar-diabetes-south-asians.html Diabetes Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:44:52 EST news262345482 (Medical Xpress) -- More than three-quarters of Chinese adults have at least one risk factor for type 2 diabetes or cardiovascular disease, reveals new data in a long-term study done by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and published this week in Obesity. Rates of hypertension, diabetes and triglycerides are particularly high, even in the young and trim. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-percent-chinese-adults-diabetes-heart.html Overweight and Obesity Mon, 23 Jul 2012 07:25:48 EST news262247143 Women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) who also have obstructive sleep apnea have at least three times the risk of having prediabetes compared with women who do not have PCOS, according to a new study. The results will be presented Tuesday at The Endocrine Society's 94th Annual Meeting in Houston. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-apnea-polycystic-ovary-syndrome-prediabetes.html Sleep apnea Tue, 26 Jun 2012 15:00:03 EST news259925726 A collaborative re-analysis of data from the InterAct case-control study conducted by Claudia Langenberg and colleagues has established that waist circumference is associated with risk of type 2 diabetes, independently of body mass index (BMI). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-waist-circumference-linked-diabetes-independently.html Health Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:00:01 EST news258115288 Type 2 diabetes is popularly associated with obesity and a sedentary lifestyle. However, just as there are obese people without type 2 diabetes, there are lean people with the disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-jack-spratt-diabetes-gene.html Genetics Fri, 01 Jun 2012 09:40:02 EST news257762388 A specific antioxidant supplement may be an effective therapy for some features of autism, according to a pilot trial from the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital that involved 31 children with the disorder. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-antioxidant-treatment-features-autism.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 29 May 2012 15:53:10 EST news257525584 (HealthDay) -- Cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy (CAN) appears to affect the risk of cardiovascular disease even in type 1 diabetes patients with normal albumin excretion rates, according to a study published online April 12 in Diabetes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-cv-autonomic-neuropathy-cvd-albumin.html Cardiology Thu, 19 Apr 2012 04:30:01 EST news254024521 (HealthDay) -- The combination of type 2 diabetes and impaired health-related functioning (HRF) is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality, according to a study published online March 23 in Diabetes Care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-poor-health-related-function-diabetes-combo.html Diabetes Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:25:35 EST news252332725 Subjects in a cohort in Sweden, some of whom had been exposed to a community intervention program to prevent diabetes, were evaluated 8-10 years after baseline for the presence of diabetes mellitus or impaired glucose metabolism ("pre-diabetes") in relation to a baseline report of alcohol consumption. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-association-alcohol-diabetes.html Diabetes Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:46:45 EST news252236796 Heavier female babies are more likely to develop diabetes and related metabolic risks when they grow up compared with their male counterparts, according to a recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (JCEM). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-overweight-baby-girls-cardiovascular-disease.html Overweight and Obesity Thu, 29 Mar 2012 07:41:33 EST news252225679 A new study has found that women who stay seated for long periods of time every day are more prone to developing type 2 diabetes, but that a similar link wasn't found in men. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-diabetes.html Health Fri, 02 Mar 2012 09:47:13 EST news249903995 The longer you have diabetes, the higher your risk for stroke, according to a study in Stroke, an American Heart Association journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-long-time-diabetics.html Diabetes Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:43:20 EST news249842590 Scientists at King's College London and the National Diabetes Centre (Sri Lanka) have found evidence of a high number of risk factors for type 2 diabetes among the young urban population in Sri Lanka. The study is the first large-scale investigation into diabetes risk among children and young people in South Asia, and provides further evidence that the region is rapidly becoming a hotspot in the growing international diabetes epidemic. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-diabetes-factors-young-sri-lankans.html Diabetes Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:40:32 EST news248434824 (Medical Xpress) -- Diabetes risk is increased in men and women who eat a diet that is high in processed meats, according to a study published online this week in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.  Processed meats include hot dogs, lunch meat, sausages and canned meats. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-diet-high-meat-linked-diabetes.html Diabetes Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:49:49 EST news247474182