A retrospective cohort study found that autonomous cortisol secretion was associated with 2- to 3-fold increased risk for death and cardiovascular disease in patients with adrenal incidentalomas. This information could help ...
May 25, 2021
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An international research group has clarified the action mechanism of incretin-based drugs in the treatment of diabetes. The research group headed by Professor Seino Susumu included Researcher Okechi Oduori et al. (Division ...
Nov 25, 2020
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Diabetes is currently treated using incretin hormones to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and other medical issues that the illness can trigger. Now researchers from Lund University in Sweden have noted new links ...
Nov 19, 2020
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Researchers have discovered a previously unknown way that pancreatic cells decide how much insulin to secrete. It could provide a promising new target to develop drugs for boosting insulin production in people with Type 2 ...
Nov 13, 2020
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The multicellular, 3-D structure of human pancreatic islets—the areas of the pancreas containing hormone-producing or endocrine cells—has presented challenges to researchers as they study and manipulate these cells' function, ...
Jul 31, 2020
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The race for a COVID-19 vaccine is on, and as the disease continues to upend societies around the world, public health officials are calling upon pharmaceutical companies to share their intellectual property—a move that ...
Apr 15, 2020
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Patients with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes who underwent a novel, minimally invasive, endoscopic procedure called Revita duodenal mucosal resurfacing (DMR) had significantly improved blood glucose (sugar) levels, liver ...
Mar 30, 2020
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(HealthDay)—Cataract surgery seems to increase melatonin secretion in adults aged 60 years or older, according to a study published online March 5 in JAMA Ophthalmology.
Mar 6, 2020
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Post-transplantation diabetes mellitus (PTDM), a common complication of immunosuppressive drugs that are given to prevent transplant rejection, may be reversible and at least partially preventable, researchers at Vanderbilt ...
Feb 21, 2020
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A new study helps to explain the mechanism by which pancreatic cells secrete high levels of insulin during the early stages of diabetes.
Dec 20, 2019
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