Health
Five ways to save your legs from a vascular surgery specialist
Gangrene, or a rapidly spreading foot abscess. Sound like diseases of the past? Well, sadly not.
Jan 21, 2025
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Cardiology
Lower blood pressure for diabetic patients can reduce cardiovascular disease
People with type 2 diabetes had significantly fewer heart attacks, strokes, heart failures, and deaths from cardiovascular disease when their blood pressure was lower than the current standard goal, a UT Southwestern Medical ...
Jan 20, 2025
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Diabetes
Many Greenlanders face 10 times higher risk of diabetes—exercise may be their only solution
A significant portion of the Greenlandic Inuit population carries a genetic variant that increases their risk of type 2 diabetes tenfold. Now, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have discovered that the key to ...
Jan 20, 2025
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Q&A: Transplant treatment for diabetes shows promising results
A completely new way of treating type 1 diabetes is being tested at Uppsala University Hospital. Patients are being offered transplants of genetically modified insulin-producing cells and the initial results are promising. ...
Jan 17, 2025
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Diabetes
Continuous glucose monitors rival A1c in predicting diabetes complications
Data from continuous glucose monitors can predict nerve, eye and kidney damage caused by type 1 diabetes, University of Virginia Center for Diabetes Technology researchers have found. That suggests doctors may be able to ...
Jan 15, 2025
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Study reveals three molecular drivers of type 2 diabetes post-pregnancy
Women who have gestational diabetes have increased risk of type 2 diabetes in the years after delivery. Those who go on to develop the chronic disease fall into three "clusters," each with a distinct molecular driver, according ...
Jan 15, 2025
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Medications
Semaglutide can also be beneficial to people with type 1 diabetes, clinical trial finds
Semaglutide (known by its brand name Ozempic) has gained widespread attention for its weight-loss benefits, but is officially approved for managing type 2 diabetes. While there is currently limited data on its risks and benefits ...
Jan 15, 2025
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Semaglutide doubles risk for nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy
Use of once-weekly semaglutide more than doubles the risk for nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION) in individuals with type 2 diabetes, according to a study published online Dec. 18 in the International ...
Jan 14, 2025
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Genetics
The progression from gestational diabetes to type 2: Study discovers biomarker-related genetic predisposition
Among those who have had gestational diabetes, about 35% will develop type 2 diabetes within a decade. A new study led by Dr. Saifur Khan, Ph.D., cardiology research faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh Vascular ...
Jan 14, 2025
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Improved trends in anti-diabetic medication reduce severe complications
Researchers from the University of California, Irvine, were the first to report an improvement in severe diabetes-related acute complications, such as dangerously low blood sugar that led to emergency room visits or hospitalizations, ...
Jan 13, 2025
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