http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A Lund University research team has shed new light on why gastric bypass often sends diabetes into remission rapidly, opening the door to developing treatment with the same effect. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-gastric-bypass-diabetes-treatment.html Diabetes Wed, 01 May 2013 08:43:57 EST news286616629 (HealthDay)—Only 11 percent of the estimated 79 million Americans who are at risk for diabetes know they are at risk, federal health officials reported Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-millions-verge-diabetes-dont-cdc.html Diabetes Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:38:45 EST news283095507 Although some studies have portrayed tight blood sugar control as a potential means of lowering infection rates in critically ill adults, a new study—led by principal investigator Michael Agus, MD, director of the Medicine Critical Care Program at Boston Children's Hospital—found no indication that the approach benefits pediatric patients undergoing heart surgery. The results of the Safe Pediatric Euglycemia in Cardiac Surgery (SPECS) trial, which was conducted at Boston Children's and at the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, will appear in the September 7 online edition of the New England Journal of Medicine and in the September 27 print version of the publication. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-tight-glycemic-proven-benefits-children.html Cardiology Sat, 08 Sep 2012 04:40:02 EST news266297984 People whose blood sugar is on the high end of the normal range may be at greater risk of brain shrinkage that occurs with aging and diseases such as dementia, according to new research published in the September 4, 2012, print issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-range-high-blood-sugar-linked.html Neuroscience Mon, 03 Sep 2012 16:00:10 EST news265890211 (AP) -- Half the nation's overweight teens have unhealthy blood pressure, cholesterol or blood sugar levels that put them at risk for future heart attacks and other cardiac problems, new federal research says. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-cdc-overweight-teens-heart.html Pediatrics Mon, 21 May 2012 03:46:57 EST news256790803 Pregnant women who are overweight with moderately elevated blood sugar never set off any alarms for their physicians. The big concern was for women who were obese or who had gestational diabetes because those conditions are known to cause a host of health risks to the mom and baby. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-overweight-moms-moderately-high-blood.html Overweight and Obesity Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:53:25 EST news253367590 These days, most of us don't head to the doctor until we are already ill. What if you could see disease approaching just as it starts to head your way? A study in a special March 16th issue of Cell focused on human biology shows that this futuristic notion is already in reach. Scientists have combined a complete personal genome sequence with analyses of disease risks and an array of dynamic molecular measures, capturing important changes in the way the human body works. The study is the first to apply "integrative Personal Omics Profiling" (iPOP for short) to observe healthy and diseased states, the researchers say. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-disease-unprecedented.html Genetics Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:02:29 EST news251031731 Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have restored normal blood sugar metabolism in diabetic mice using a compound the body makes naturally. The finding suggests that it may one day be possible for people to take the compound much like a daily vitamin as a way to treat or even prevent type 2 diabetes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-natural-compound-reverse-diabetes-mice.html Medical research Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:40:01 EST news236952643 People with diabetes appear to be at a significantly increased risk of developing dementia, according to a study published in the September 20, 2011, print issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-diabetes-significantly-dementia.html Neuroscience Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:44:38 EST news235669462