Diabetes Overview
Diabetes affects the body's ability to use blood sugar for energy. The main types include type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, and gestational diabetes. Diabetes insipidus, a rare disorder, is not related to diabetes mellitus (sugar diabetes). Diabetes symptoms may include increased thirst and urination, blurred vision, and fatigue.
Diabetes Health Center
News and Features Related to Diabetes
- Fat Hormone Leptin May Control Diabetes
Jan. 5, 2010 -- The so-called fat hormone leptin may play a key role in controlling and potentially reversing diabetes, a role that has nothing to do with its link to weight loss. The hormone leptin has been nicknamed the fat hormone after numerous studies have shown it promotes weight loss, which i
Read Full Article - A1C Blood Test OK for Diabetes Diagnosis
Dec. 29, 2009 -- The American Diabetes Association (ADA) is recommending that a simple blood test currently used to assess whether diabetes is under control also be used to diagnose the disease. The blood test -- known as the A1C test -- has several important advantages over traditional blood glucos
Read Full Article - How a 'Diabetes Diet' Protects Your Health
If you have diabetes, a healthy diet does more than keep your blood sugar under better control. A good diabetes diet can also help prevent or delay the onset of complications such as nerve pain or heart disease. Although some people talk about a "diabetes diet," there's really no such thing, experts
Read Full Article - 4 New High-Tech Tools to Help Control Diabetes
Diabetes can make huge demands on you. For many patients, the daily routine involves painful finger sticks, glucose tests, and insulin injections -- all in an effort to keep blood sugar and diabetes under control. But newer devices, such as continuous glucose monitors, may make it easier for many of
Read Full Article - Coffee, Tea May Stall Diabetes
Dec. 14, 2009 -- Every cup of coffee a person drinks per day may lower the risk of diabetes by 7%. A new review of research on the link between lifestyle factors, like coffee and tea consumption, and diabetes risk suggests that drinking regular or decaffeinated coffee and tea all lower the risk of t
Read Full Article - Popular Diabetes Drugs Tied to Heart Failure
Dec. 4, 2009 -- Concerns that the diabetes drugs Avandia and Actos raise the risk for heart failure led the FDA to require label changes warning of the potential risk two years ago. Now a new study suggests this concern might be unfounded, but it also raises questions about a different class of oral
Read Full Article - Screening 'Test' Gauges Diabetes Risk
Nov. 30, 2009 -- Are you overweight? Do you exercise? Do you have high blood pressure or relatives who have diabetes? Are you male or female? Researchers have developed a simple, six-question screening test designed to help you determine whether you might be one of many millions of Americans who hav
Read Full Article - Delaying Type 1 Diabetes
Nov. 25, 2009 -- Researchers may have found a new way to delay, or perhaps prevent, type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes usually begins early in life, when the T-lymphocyte arm of the immune system attacks insulin-making beta cells in the pancreas. Researchers hoping to slow or stop this process have ta
Read Full Article - Diabetes Rate May Double by 2034
Nov. 27, 2009 -- If nothing is done, the number of Americans with diabetes will nearly double in the next 25 years and spending on the disease will nearly triple, a new study shows. An aging population combined with a dramatic rise in obesity has created a perfect storm for diabetes in the U.S., res
Read Full Article Nov. 19. 2009 -- The CDC says the prevalence of obesity and diabetes in the U.S. is much higher in the South and Appalachian region than in most areas of the West and Northeast. In its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report for Nov. 20, the CDC estimates obesity and diabetes prevalence for all 3,141
No comments:
Post a Comment