A Rutgers study suggests that extremely high blood pressure, not just diabetes, is responsible for severe organ damage due to hypertensive emergencies in African-Americans with diabetes The most effective way to prevent life-threatening complications of extreme hypertension in African-Americans with diabetes is to better control their blood pressure, according to a Rutgers study, the largest of its kind. IMAGE: A RUTGERS STUDY...
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Experts Skeptical on Claims That Intermittent Fasting Can Reverse Type 2 Diabetes
A new study involving three men concluded that occasional fasting can help reverse type 2 diabetes. One researcher says occasional fasting can reverse type 2 diabetes, but other experts aren’t so sure. Getty Images Three men with type 2 diabetes were able to stop insulin treatment altogether after intermittent fasting, but experts are warning that people shouldn’t try such a practice on...
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Study: Improvement in glycemic parameters by adding dapagliflozin to metformin in T2D
New Rochelle, NY, October 1, 2018–Researchers used continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) to assess the effects of adding dapagliflozin to a regimen of either metformin or insulin in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and found significant reductions in mean glucose and other glycemic factors, with greater improvements seen in patients taking metformin compared to insulin....
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Weight loss drug shows positive effect on diabetes
Lorcaserin decreased risk for diabetes, induced diabetes remission and reduced risk of diabetes complications in obese and overweight patients BRIGHAM AND WOMEN’S HOSPITAL Boston, MA — At the 2018 Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, Brigham and Women’s Hospital investigators from the Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) Study Group presented diabetes-related...
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Diabetes: Fridge temperature may make insulin less effective
New research that set out to analyze the temperatures at which people living with diabetes store their insulin is now warning against the perils of improper storage for the quality and effectiveness of the hormone. Storage temperatures may affect the quality of the insulin. More than 30 million people in the United States are currently living with diabetes....
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Giving millions of patients already on statins a new type of drug ‘could slash their heart disease risk even further’ and protect against type 2 diabetes
Pills called lipoprotein lipase (LPL) enhancers are already under development Cambridge University scientists claim they can slash the risk of heart disease They tested the effects of the drugs based on genes from 400,000 people Giving millions of patients already taking statins a new type of drug could slash their heart disease risk even further, research suggests....
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Genomic study brings us closer to precision medicine for type 2 diabetes
Most patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes are treated with a “one-size-fits-all” protocol that is not tailored to each person’s physiology and may leave many cases inadequately managed. A new study by scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) indicates that inherited genetic changes may underlie the variability...
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Diabetes drug may prevent liver cancer
A drug commonly used to treat type 2 diabetes might help prevent patients from developing liver cancers. Credit: CC0 Public Domain In a study published this month in the journal Cancer Causes & Control, Harvey J. Murff, MD, MPH, and colleagues found that patients taking metformin had a reduced rate of liver cancer compared to...
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New drugs could reduce risk of heart disease when added to statins
New drugs that lower levels of triglycerides (a type of fat) in blood could further reduce the risk of heart attack when added to statins. These new drugs, which are in various stages of development, could also reduce blood glucose levels and the risk of diabetes, according to a new genetic study from the Medical...
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Study overturns what we know about kidney stones
Current treatments for kidney stones are limited and sometimes painful. Research is changing what we thought we knew about their composition and behavior, suggesting that one day, we may fully dissolve them “right in the patient’s kidney.” In the United States, an estimated 1 in 11 people have kidney stones. They affect more men than women; more...