The new UT Southwestern study showed that U.S. South Asians with Type 2 diabetes consumed fewer calories but also consumed less beneficial nutrients than healthy South Asians. DALLAS – March 21, 2018 – Less nutritious dietary choices made by South Asians living in developed countries like the U.S. are a key contributor to the group’s rising...
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Many patients show signs of chronic kidney disease before diabetes diagnosis
Many patients who will later be diagnosed with diabetes show signs of chronic kidney disease (CKD) even before their diabetes diagnosis, according to a study by researchers with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and VA MidSouth Healthcare Network. Doctors have long known that patients with diabetes are at risk for kidney disease. But...
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Stem cells pave the way for new treatment of diabetes
415 million people worldwide have been diagnosed with diabetes. And the number continues to rise. Common to all diabetes patients is that they lack the ability to produce sufficient amounts of insulin, which regulates the blood sugar in the body. This can lead to a number of complications and in many cases be potentially fatal....
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FDA approves admelog for diabetes
(HealthDay)—Admelog (insulin lispro), a short-acting form of insulin, has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat patients aged 3 years and older with either type of diabetes. Admelog is the first drug approved as a follow-up product based on an abbreviated new process dubbed 505(b)(2), the agency said Monday in a news release....
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Critical link between obesity and diabetes has been identified
UT Southwestern researchers have identified a major mechanism by which obesity causes type 2 diabetes, which is a common complication of being overweight that afflicts more than 30 million Americans and over 400 million people worldwide. Researchers found that in obesity, insulin released into the blood by the pancreas is unable to pass through the cells...
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Predicting vision loss in diabetes
A new study from a researcher at City, University of London has found that the location of lesions in the eye can help predict vision-threatening diabetic retinopathy, a frequent cause of blindness in the Western world. The paper, which is featured on the front page of the prestigious journal Diabetologica—a leading journal in diabetes research –...
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Scientists reverse diabetes in a mouse model using modified blood stem cells
In type 1 diabetes, autoreactive T-cells attack insulin-producing islet cells in the pancreas (frame 1). Fiorina and colleagues showed that the network of genetic regulatory factors controlling production of a protein called PD-L1 is …more Researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital have successfully reversed type 1 diabetes in a mouse model by infusing blood stem cells...
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Pre-diabetes discovery marks step towards precision medicine
High-resolution model of six insulin molecules assembled in a hexamer. Researchers from the University of Sydney’s Charles Perkins Centre have identified three specific molecules that accurately indicate insulin resistance, or pre-diabetes – a major predictor of metabolic syndrome, the collection of medical conditions that include abdominal obesity, high blood pressure and high blood sugar...
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New diabetes self-management education course for South Asian population
Researchers at King’s College London have signed an agreement with three partner organisations to offer a customised type 2 diabetes self-management education programme for the South Asian population in three London Boroughs. The Diabetes for South Asians (DoSA) programme is a bespoke three-month long diabetes self-management course for South Asians with type 2 diabetes. It was developed...
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Stem cells pave the way for new treatment of diabetes
415 million people worldwide have been diagnosed with diabetes. And the number continues to rise. Common to all diabetes patients is that they lack the ability to produce sufficient amounts of insulin, which regulates the blood sugar in the body. This can lead to a number of complications and in many cases be potentially fatal....