Medical research
Can testosterone shots prevent diabetes in men?
University of Sydney researchers are seeking male participants for a novel trial assessing whether regular testosterone shots can prevent type 2 diabetes in men.
Mar 17, 2014
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Type 2 Diabetes
Medical research
Blood sugar testing with no sharps
Measuring blood sugar when you have diabetes usually involves pricking your finger and using a glucose monitor for the test. While this approach can give people with diabetes vital information about whether they need to take ...
Mar 13, 2014
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Diabetes
Antibody affinity is decisive in Type 1 diabetes in adults
Patients with LADA – a form of autoimmune type 1 diabetes in adulthood – can be distinguished from patients with non-autoimmune type 2 diabetes by means of the antibody reaction affinity to the enzyme glutamic acid decarboxylase ...
Mar 11, 2014
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Diabetes
Epigenetic changes could explain type 2 diabetes
People with type 2 diabetes have epigenetic changes on their DNA that healthy individuals do not have. This has been shown in a major study by researchers at Lund University. The researchers also found epigenetic changes ...
Mar 7, 2014
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Genetics
Study results confirm BMI is a direct cause of Type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure
(Medical Xpress)—Using new genetic evidence, an international team of scientists led by experts at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has found that ...
Mar 4, 2014
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Diabetes
Study pinpoints protective mutations for type 2 diabetes
An international team led by researchers at the Broad Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has identified mutations in a gene that can reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, even in people who have risk ...
Mar 2, 2014
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Diabetes
Diabetes and obesity more common in socioeconomically deprived regions
Living in a socioeconomically deprived region is a risk factor for being affected by diabetes mellitus and obesity. This holds true regardless of the individual social status of the inhabitants. This is the conclusion reached ...
Feb 28, 2014
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Diabetes
Newer diabetes drugs cost more, but may not work better
Two newer classes of drugs to treat adult-onset diabetes may be no more effective than the old standby, yet they cost significantly more over the course of a patient's disease.
Feb 28, 2014
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Diabetes
Unconventional view of type 2 diabetes causation proposed
At 85, Nobel laureate James D. Watson, the co-discoverer of the double-helix structure of DNA, continues to advance intriguing scientific ideas. His latest, a hypothesis on the causation of type 2 diabetes, is to appear 7 ...
Feb 27, 2014
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Health
Fructose not responsible for increase in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is the most common chronic liver disease in developed countries, affecting up to 30 per cent of their populations.
Feb 26, 2014
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