by Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care Credit: CC0 Public Domain A study by Baycrest found that high blood sugar may impair brain health even in people without diabetes. While the link between blood sugar and brain health is well documented in individuals living with diabetes, Baycrest is the first to examine this connection in people without...
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Could a ‘DNA diet’ help to reduce health risks linked to high blood sugar?
Peer-Reviewed Publication IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON The findings come from a small Imperial College London and DnaNudge pilot study involving 148 people with high blood sugar levels who were at risk of going on to develop type 2 diabetes (T2D). It found that following personalised dietary advice informed by genetic information, in combination with face-to-face dietary...
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High Blood Sugar? It Could Be a Side Effect of These Medications
Written by Jewels Doskicz, RN, BA | Reviewed by Sophie Vergnaud, MD Updated on December 20, 2022 Key takeaways: High blood sugar (hyperglycemia) can be a side effect of some common medications. In some cases, high levels of blood sugar are temporary and settle when someone stops the medication. But medications can increase the risk...
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How high blood sugar REALLY causes type 2 diabetes
By JOE DAVIES HEALTH REPORTER FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED: 05:00 EST, 14 November 2022 | UPDATED: 07:27 EST, 14 November 2022 For decades, scientists have been puzzled over how exactly high blood sugar causes type 2 diabetes. But Oxford University researchers may finally have the answer. Tests revealed it wasn’t the elevated glucose levels that were directly to blame for...
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Babies exposed to cannabis in the womb may be at risk for obesity, high blood sugar
by The Endocrine Society Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Cannabis use among pregnant women is on the rise and may be associated with negative health outcomes in children, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society’s The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. A 2016 study in Colorado revealed that up to 22% of pregnant...
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High blood sugar levels ‘reprogram’ stem cells
by University of Oxford Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain High levels of glucose in the blood “reprogrames” stem cells, leading to a lasting increase in the risk of developing dangerous atherosclerosis, according to research funded by the British Heart Foundation published today in Circulation. University of Oxford researchers found that high blood glucose, a hallmark of diabetes, alters stem cells...
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Researchers identify a way to reverse high blood sugar and muscle loss
by Monash University Credit: CC0 Public Domain A study by Monash University has uncovered that liver metabolism is disrupted in people with obesity-related type 2 diabetes, which contributes to high blood sugar and muscle loss—also known as skeletal muscle atrophy. Using human trials as well as mouse models, collaborative research led by Dr. Adam Rose at...
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Scientists identify a potential treatment candidate for early type 2 diabetic retinopathy
Diabetic retinopathy is one of the main vascular complications of type 2 diabetes, and the most common cause of visual deterioration in adults. A new study in The American Journal of Pathology reports on the efficacy of a possible treatment candidate that showed anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective effects on the retina and optic nerve head in...
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Researchers design synthetic beta cells to secrete insulin in response to high blood sugar
Fluorescence image of the artificial beta cells. Treating type 1 diabetes and some cases of type 2 diabetes has long required painful and frequent insulin injections or a mechanical insulin pump for insulin infusion. But researchers from the University of North Carolina and NC State have now developed what could be a much more...