Diabetes News

May 10, 2024

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How Night Shift Work Can Raise Risk of Diabetes, Obesity

May 9, 2024 — Just a few days on a night shift schedule throws off protein rhythms related to blood glucose regulation, energy metabolism and inflammation, processes that can influence the development of chronic metabolic conditions. The finding provides new ...

Neuropathy Very Common, Underdiagnosed

May 8, 2024 — Neuropathy, the nerve damage that causes pain and numbness in the feet and hands and can eventually lead to falls, infection and even amputation, is very common and underdiagnosed, according to a new ...

Personalized Screening Early in Pregnancy May Improve Preeclampsia Detection

May 6, 2024 — Study suggests more extensive screening method in the first trimester of pregnancy may improve detection of ...

Biomarker Found to Help Identify Cells That Can Repair Damaged Blood Vessels

May 7, 2024 — Researchers have discovered a protein marker to help identify cells able to repopulate in patients with damaged blood vessels. Their findings could lead to new therapies for people with endothelial ...

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Decoding the Three Ancestral Components of the Japanese People

May 7, 2024 — A research group have used whole-genome sequencing to unravel the complex ancestry of the Japanese population. The analysis supports an earlier study that proposed that the Japanese population ...

Cranberry Extracts Could Boost Microbiota and Counter Cardiometabolic Diseases

Apr. 30, 2024 — Cranberry extracts appear to improve intestinal microbiota and help prevent chronic diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. The study ...

Researchers Identify Causal Genetic Variant Linked to Common Childhood Obesity

May 1, 2024 — Researchers have identified a causal genetic variant strongly associated with childhood obesity. The study provides new insight into the importance ...

An Electrifying Discovery May Help Doctors Deliver More Effective Gene Therapies

Apr. 30, 2024 — In an effort to improve delivery of costly medical treatments, a team of researchers in electrical engineering has developed a stimulating method ...

Experimental Type 1 Diabetes Drug Shelters Pancreas Cells from Immune System Attack

Apr. 29, 2024 — Scientists say that an experimental monoclonal antibody drug called mAb43 appears to prevent and reverse the onset of clinical type 1 diabetes in ...

Physical Activity in Nature Helps Prevent Several Diseases, Including Depression and Type 2 Diabetes

Apr. 25, 2024 — Physical activity in natural environments prevent almost 13,000 cases of non-communicable diseases a year in England and save treatment costs of more ...

Food in Sight? The Liver Is Ready!

Apr. 25, 2024 — What happens in the body when we are hungry and see and smell food? A team of researchers has now been able to show in mice that adaptations in the liver mitochondria take place after only a few ...

Genetics Predict Type 2 Diabetes Risk and Disparities in Childhood Cancer Survivors

Apr. 23, 2024 — Learn how ancestry changes genetic risk variants' impact on type 2 diabetes in childhood cancer survivors & alkylating agent exposure magnifies ...

Shoe Technology Reduces Risk of Diabetic Foot Ulcers

Apr. 19, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new shoe insole technology that helps reduce the risk of diabetic foot ulcers, a dangerous open sore that can lead to hospitalization and leg, foot or toe ...

New Study Focuses on the Placenta for Clues to the Development of Gestational Diabetes

Apr. 16, 2024 — A new study has identified that a deficit in the placental expression of the gene insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGFBP1) and low IGFBP1 circulating ...

Follow-Up 50 Years on Finds Landmark Steroid Study Remains Safe

Apr. 23, 2024 — A follow-up analysis 50 years later finds no adverse heart health risk from Professor Mont Liggins' landmark steroid study to reduce illness and death for pre-term ...

Siblings With Unique Genetic Change Help Scientists Progress Drug Search for Type 1 Diabetes

Apr. 18, 2024 — Two siblings who have the only known mutations in a key gene anywhere in the world have helped scientists gain new insights that could help progress the search for new treatments in type 1 ...

Take It from the Rats: A Junk Food Diet Can Cause Long-Term Damage to Adolescent Brains

Apr. 15, 2024 — A study on the effects of a junk food diet on rats reinforces scientific understanding about the gut-brain ...

Scientists Uncover a Missing Link Between Poor Diet and Higher Cancer Risk

Apr. 12, 2024 — A research team has unearthed new findings which may help explain the connection between cancer risk and poor diet, as well as common diseases like diabetes, which arise from poor diet. The insights ...

This Outdated Diabetes Drug Still Has Something to Offer

Apr. 11, 2024 — Researchers have discovered the biochemical workings of an old-fashioned diabetes drug, and it's helping them develop new, safer ...

Does the Time of Day You Move Your Body Make a Difference to Your Health?

Apr. 10, 2024 — Undertaking the majority of daily physical activity in the evening is linked to the greatest health benefits for people living with obesity, according to researchers who followed the trajectory of ...

Global Research Team Finds No Clear Link Between Maternal Diabetes During Pregnancy and ADHD in Children

Apr. 10, 2024 — An international research team has just provided valuable evidence through a 20-year longitudinal study to address the longstanding debate concerning the potential impact of maternal diabetes on ...

Beating Back Bitter Taste in Medicine

Apr. 9, 2024 — The bitter taste of certain drugs is a barrier to taking some medications as prescribed, especially for people who are particularly sensitive to bitter taste. A team found that the diabetes drug ...

Few Newly Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetics Succeed in Losing Weight -- Weight Gain Linked to Much Higher Risk of Complications

Apr. 4, 2024 — A register-based study identified three distinct BMI trajectory groups among patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes. In a four-year follow-up, most patients followed a stable trajectory ...

Study Finds Less Invasive, Safer Option for Removing Benign Pancreatic Tumors

Apr. 4, 2024 — Researchers describe a new technique for the minimally invasive removal of benign tumors located in the challenging posterior head of the pancreas (right side of abdomen, nestled in the curve of the ...

Large Language Models Respond Differently Based on User's Motivation

Apr. 3, 2024 — A new study reveals how large language models (LLMs) respond to different motivational states. In their evaluation of three LLM-based generative conversational agents (GAs)--ChatGPT, Google Bard, and ...

Wound Treatment Gel Fights the Battle Against Antibacterial Resistance

Apr. 2, 2024 — Polymer-based hydrogels are used to treat skin ailments and in tissue engineering because of their ability to retain water, deliver drugs into wounds, and biodegrade. However, they are complicated to ...

Do Sweeteners Increase Your Appetite? New Evidence from Randomised Controlled Trial Says No

Mar. 28, 2024 — Replacing sugar with artificial and natural sweeteners in foods does not make people hungrier -- and also helps to reduce blood sugar levels, a significant new study has found. The double blind ...

For Younger Women, Mental Health Now May Predict Heart Health Later

Mar. 28, 2024 — Younger women are generally thought to have a low risk of heart disease, but new research urges clinicians to revisit that assumption, especially for women who suffer from certain mental health ...

Eggs May Not Be Bad for Your Heart After All

Mar. 28, 2024 — Whether you like your eggs sunny-side up, hard boiled or scrambled, many hesitate to eat them amid concerns that eggs may raise cholesterol levels and be bad for heart health. However, results from a ...

Clear Shift in Arterial Diseases in Diabetes

Mar. 28, 2024 — There has been a redistribution in the risk of arterial disease in type 1 and 2 diabetes. The risks of heart attack and stroke have decreased significantly, while complications in more peripheral ...

Miscarriages Linked to Health Risks in Later Pregnancies

Mar. 28, 2024 — Researchers analyzed 52 studies involving more than 4 million pregnancies across 22 countries to investigate the health impacts of miscarriage, abortion and recurrent pregnancy loss (more than two ...

Risk Factors for Faster Aging in the Brain Revealed in New Study

Mar. 27, 2024 — Researchers have used data from UK Biobank participants to reveal that diabetes, traffic-related air pollution and alcohol intake are the most harmful out of 15 modifiable risk factors for ...

Discovery Has Potential to Solve the Billion-Dollar Global Cost of Poorly Managed Wound Healing

Mar. 27, 2024 — Scientists have uncovered a key step in the wound healing process that becomes disabled in diseases like diabetes and aging, contributing to a global healthcare cost of managing poorly healing wounds ...

Insulin Affects the Recycling of Cellular Power Plants

Mar. 25, 2024 — In nerve cells, the hormone regulates whether mitochondria are shut down or kept ...