Diabetes
Moderate muscle strength may lower risk for type 2 diabetes
Of the 30 million Americans with diabetes, 90 to 95 percent have type 2, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Diabetes' sworn enemy could ultimately be a valuable ally
When people talk about diabetes, they usually also talk about insulin. Diabetes is a disease that affects millions of people around the world; insulin is a hormone that helps control this disease. Now a third term could soon ...
Mar 6, 2019
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Diabetes
Cellular alterations increase vulnerability of obese and diabetic individuals to infection
People who suffer from obesity and type 2 diabetes are more likely to become victims of infectious diseases. Both conditions affect the immune system and hence increase the risk of infections. Scientists have long sought ...
Feb 27, 2019
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Diabetes
Oxygen-tracking method could improve diabetes treatment
Transplanting pancreatic islet cells into patients with diabetes is a promising alternative to the daily insulin injections that many of these patients now require. These cells could act as a bioartificial pancreas, monitoring ...
Feb 26, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Study links diabetes and back pain
People with diabetes have a 35 percent higher risk of experiencing low back pain and 24 percent higher risk of having neck pain than those without diabetes, a review by University of Sydney researchers has found.
Feb 21, 2019
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Diabetes
Cellular sickness linked to type 1 diabetes onset
A UC San Francisco study of human and mouse pancreatic tissue suggests a new origin story for type 1 (T1) diabetes. The findings flip current assumptions about the causes of the disease on their head and demonstrate a promising ...
Feb 21, 2019
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Diabetes
Viruses that linger in the gut could trigger type 1 diabetes
Researchers at the Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, provide new evidence supporting an association ...
Feb 20, 2019
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Diabetes
Study explores the role of estrogen in controlling Type 2 diabetes
The results of a recent Texas A&M University-led study provide insights into the mechanism by which estrogen can decrease insulin resistance and the production of glucose, reducing incidences of Type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Feb 12, 2019
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Insulin signaling failures in the brain linked to Alzheimer's disease
Scientists continue to find evidence linking Type 2 diabetes with Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia and the seventh leading cause of death in the United States. However, little is understood about the ...
Feb 11, 2019
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Genetics
Study finds gene does not increase risk for Type 2 diabetes in all Hispanic/Latino background groups equally
A recent study found that people of Mexican background are more likely to be at risk for Type 2 diabetes than other Hispanic/Latino background groups. The study, which was led by Bertha Hidalgo, Ph.D., a professor of epidemiology ...
Feb 8, 2019
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