by American Heart Association News Measuring waist circumference may be an essential way to help predict who will develop diabetes among Black people with normal blood sugar levels, according to a new study. The problem is, researchers say, waist size often is overlooked at health visits. The study, published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Heart Association,...
by Kelly Malcom, University of Michigan Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, clinicians have noted that certain patients are at especially high risk of developing severe illness or dying from coronavirus infection. Type 2 diabetes—a condition affecting more than 10 percent of the U.S. population— is one of the main risk factors for severe...
People with type 2 diabetes should be considered in remission after sustaining normal blood sugar levels for three months or more, according to a new consensus statement from the Endocrine Society, the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), Diabetes UK and the American Diabetes Association, and co-published in Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Diabetologia, Diabetic Medicine and Diabetes...
By Elizabeth Cooney FRED DUFOUR/AFP/GETTY IMAGES The age at which adults who are overweight or obese should be screened for type 2 diabetes is going down while the prevalence of both forms of the disease is going up among children and adolescents — two developments reported Tuesday that signal a growing burden of these chronic health...
The study, published in the September 2021 issue in the journal Pediatric Diabetes,comprises 237 individuals aged up to 18 with new-onset type 1 diabetes. At some point in the years 2015–17, these children and adolescents were admitted to hospital in Sweden with acid poisoning (diabetic ketoacidosis, DKA), a condition that can arise if the patient does...
by American Chemical Society Credit: Sasha Wolff/Wikipedia People who get migraines are less likely to develop type 2 diabetes, while some people who develop diabetes become less prone to migraines. Today, scientists studying the link between these conditions report how the peptides that cause migraine pain can influence production of insulin in mice, possibly by regulating...
You need to take care of yourself in order to live a long and healthy life. But sometimes you needs some medicine to lower your risk of death. Scientists from the University of Glasgow have found that a new class of diabetes medications, called GLP-1 receptor agonists, can reduce the chance of heart attacks, strokes...
by Matthew Libassi, The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research Figure 1. Functional magnetic resonance imaging and electrode placement. (A) Pre-surgical fMRI obtained while participant P1 pressed different buttons on a handheld device while watching videos showing desired movements. (B) Exemplary placement of SEEG electrodes (participant 3). (C) Photograph of HD ECoG electrode placement for recordings in participant...
DENVER ― Around the world, cases of dementia are projected to hit 153 million in 2050, up from around 57 million in 2019, new global prevalence data show. Emma Nichols, MPH “These extreme increases are due largely to demographic trends, including population growth and aging,” study investigator Emma Nichols, MPH, Institute for Health Metrics and...
A recent review examines whether low glycemic index diets help manage diabetes. Lucy Lambriex/Getty Images People with type 1 or type 2 diabetes often use several different methods to keep blood sugar levels in a healthy range and prevent long-term complications. The glycemic load (GL) and glycemic index (GI) are different ways of indicating how...
