http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Researchers at the Universitat Politècnica de València and the Universitat de Girona have developed a new method for continuous glucose monitoring in patients with type 1 diabetes. It is based on a new calibration algorithm which is adapted to existing treatment devices and increases the accuracy in estimating blood glucose and helps regulate a controlled and automatic insulin release. The system has been patented by the two Spanish universities. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-method-ability-glucose-diabetic-patients.html Diabetes Wed, 08 May 2013 08:22:22 EST news287220126 (HealthDay) —Patients with diabetes who have longstanding diabetes, poor glycemic control, and use insulin had suboptimal improvements in clinical outcomes after lumbar spine surgery, according to research published March 15 in Spine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-diabetes-affects-lumbar-spine-surgery.html Diabetes Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:30:01 EST news284125780 Most adults and children with type 1 diabetes are not in optimal glycemic control, despite advances in insulin formulations and delivery systems and glucose monitoring approaches. Critical barriers to optimal glycemic control remain. A panel of experts in diabetes management and research met to explore these challenges, and their conclusions and recommendations for how to improve care and optimize clinical decision-making are presented in a white paper in Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics (DTT). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-guidelines-standardizing-glucose-optimizing-clinical.html Diabetes Fri, 01 Mar 2013 11:23:53 EST news281359420 Patients with diabetes were no more likely to suffer infection, deep vein thrombosis (a deep vein blood clot) or other complications following total knee replacement (TKR) than patients without diabetes, according to new research published online today, in advance of its publication in the March 2013 Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-patients-diabetes-greater-infection.html Diabetes Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:30:01 EST news281190108 (HealthDay)—For patients with diabetes and low levels of emotional well-being, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) improves emotional distress and health-related quality of life, according to a study published online Nov. 27 in Diabetes Care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-mindfulness-based-cognitive-therapy-beneficial-diabetes.html Diabetes Tue, 11 Dec 2012 13:53:14 EST news274456381 (HealthDay)—Pulse wave velocity is higher among patients with well-controlled type 2 diabetes when compared to controls, and is associated with white matter lesions, according to a study published online Nov. 5 in Diabetes Care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-higher-pulse-velocity-well-controlled-diabetes.html Diabetes Sat, 10 Nov 2012 07:40:01 EST news271749265 Cardiothoracic surgeons and endocrinologists from Boston Medical Center (BMC) have found that among patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, achieving Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) benchmarks for glycemic control may be irrelevant when perioperative continuous insulin infusion protocols are implemented. These findings appear on-line in the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-relevance-scip-benchmarks-cabg-patients.html Surgery Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:17:47 EST news271689458 A new study in BioMed Central's open access journal Critical Care suggests that intensive glycemic control does not reduce mortality in neurocritical care patients and could, in fact, lead to more neurological damage. Complicating the picture, poor glucose control also leads to worse recovery and should be avoided. This study suggests that a strategy to maintain intermediate glucose levels would contribute to better outcomes in these patients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-intermediate-glucose-tight-neurocritical-patients.html Other Sun, 21 Oct 2012 20:00:01 EST news270019633 Tight blood sugar control in the intensive care unit for pediatric cardiac surgery patients does not improve patients' infection rate, mortality, length of stay or organ failure when compared to standard care, new research shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-tight-blood-sugar-pediatric-cardiac.html Cardiology Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:44:26 EST news266499844 (HealthDay) -- Skin intrinsic fluorescence (SIF) is significantly associated with coronary artery disease (CAD) in middle-aged adults with a long duration of type 1 diabetes, according to a study published online July 30 in Diabetes Care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-skin-intrinsic-fluorescence-tied-coronary.html Diabetes Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:51:03 EST news263566248 Hypertension frequently coexists in patients with diabetes. A new University of Georgia study shows why the co-morbid conditions can result in impaired vision. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-hypertension-eyes-diabetic-patients.html Diabetes Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:22:31 EST news261310932 Among well-functioning older adults without dementia, diabetes mellitus (DM) and poor glucose control among those with DM are associated with worse cognitive function and greater cognitive decline, according to a report published Online First by Archives of Neurology, a JAMA Network publication. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-diabetes-poor-glucose-greater-cognitive.html Neuroscience Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:00:18 EST news259250436 A review of data from seven clinical trials suggests that intensive glucose control is associated with reduced risk of microalbuminuria and macroalbuminuria (conditions characterized by excessive levels of protein in the urine usually resulting from damage to the filtering units of the kidneys), according to a report published in the May 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, a JAMA Network publication. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-aggressively-glucose-kidney-failure-diabetes.html Diabetes Mon, 28 May 2012 16:00:29 EST news257416064 (HealthDay) -- For patients with type 2 diabetes, substitution of sucrose with isomaltulose is not associated with improved glycemic control (measured by hemoglobin A1c [HbA1c] levels) at 12 weeks, according to a study published online April 9 in Diabetes Care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-isomaltulose-doesnt-glycemic-diabetes.html Diabetes Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:40:01 EST news253540617 (HealthDay) -- For patients with inadequately controlled type 2 diabetes, treatment with dapagliflozin is associated with improved glycemic control, stabilized insulin dosing, and weight reductions, according to research published in the March 20 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-dapagliflozin-aids-glycemic-diabetes.html Diabetes Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:30:01 EST news251465867 (HealthDay) -- For individuals with type 2 diabetes, 30 minutes of moderate-intensity endurance exercise once a day or an hour every other day are equally effective for controlling hyperglycemia, according to a study published online March 7 in Diabetes Care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-daily-doesnt-glycemic.html Diabetes Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:15:50 EST news250956929 Surgeons from Boston Medical Center (BMC) have found that in diabetic patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, aggressive glycemic control does not result in any significant improvement of clinical outcomes as compared with moderate control. The findings, which appear in this month's issue of Annals of Surgery, also found the incidence of hypoglycemic events increased with aggressive glycemic control. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-aggressive-glycemic-diabetic-cabg-patients.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:35:50 EST news236345740