by Massachusetts General Hospital Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Many variants in the human genome have been linked to type 2 diabetes, but because most do not lie within genes that code for proteins, it’s unclear how they might cause disease. Now an international team, including investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), has developed a resource to...
Statin use is associated with increased likelihood of diabetes progression, according to a new matched cohort analysis of data from the Department of Veteran Affairs. Patients with diabetes who were on statins were more likely to begin taking insulin, become hyperglycemic, and to develop acute glycemic complications, and they were also more likely to be...
by Zhang Nannan, Chinese Academy of Sciences Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported that they have developed a pain-free, non-invasive and fast way detector of early diabetes warning signs. It is a non-invasive scanning device that checks the advanced glycation end products (AGEs)...
by University of Michigan Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Metformin, a drug commonly prescribed against diabetes, holds promise against a rare type of childhood brain tumor in laboratory studies, an international team of researchers led by the University of Michigan Health Rogel Cancer Center report in Science Translational Medicine. Experiments that uncovered new understandings of group A posterior fossa ependymomas—or...
by University of Nevada, Las Vegas Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A team of UNLV neuroscientists has strengthened the link between Type II diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease. In a study published in the September issue of the journal Communications Biology, researchers show that chronic hyperglycemia impairs working memory performance and alters fundamental aspects of working memory networks. “Diabetes is a...
DALLAS, Sept. 27, 2021 — Adults with type 1 or type 2 diabetes whose blood pressure increased at night had more than double the risk of dying compared to those whose blood pressure “dipped” during sleep, according to a 21-year study presented today at the American Heart Association’s Hypertension Scientific Sessions 2021. The meeting is the...
by Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Credit: CC0 Public Domain A popular class of diabetes medications called GLP-1R agonists (Trulicity and Rybelsus) may also protect against glaucoma in diabetic patients, according to a new study led by researchers in the Scheie Eye Institute at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine. The findings...
Diabetes is a chronic health condition affecting blood glucose levels. In some cases, it requires constant management in the form of monitoring blood glucose levels and administering insulin. Technologies such as the Omnipod system may facilitate this management and improve care in people living with diabetes. Relying on insulin therapy for the management of diabetes can be stressful. Worry...
by Max Bingham, Harvard Medical School Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In what could be a starting point for new therapeutics to tackle insulin resistance, a major driver of type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome present in 20–30 percent of the general U.S. population, researchers recently found that insulin resistance in the general population seems likely to be caused...
by University of Turku Fig. 1. Dose-response association between standing time and insulin sensitivity. Insulin sensitivity presented as a) M-value and b) HOMA-IR stratified by tertiles of accelerometer-measured standing time (h/day; means [SD]) in sedentary adults with metabolic syndrome (n = 64). HOMA-IR = homeostatic model assessment of insulin resistance. ** = p < 0.01, *** = p < 0.001. Credit: DOI: 10.1016/j.jsams.2021.08.009 Insulin is a key hormone...
