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Alpha-Lipoic Acid Improves Diabetic Neuropathy Posted: Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Acording to a report in the November issue of Diabetes Care, Alpha-lipoic acid (ALA) given orally improves symptoms in patients with diabetic polyneuropathy.

Risk of Diabetes Reduced by 58% With Active Counseling and Continues After Counseling Stops Posted: Wednesday, November 22, 2006

The effects of lifestyle intervention on diabetes risk do not disappear after active counseling has stopped, even after three plus years.

Ruboxistaurin Reduces Vision Loss Posted: Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Once daily, oral investigational therapy reduced sustained Moderate vision loss by 40% over three-year period for patients with moderate to severe non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy.

Enriched Bread Reduces Energy Intake and Increase Feeling of Fullness Posted: Wednesday, November 22, 2006

New study shows that you can eat bread and lose weight?? Bread enriched with lupin kernel flour at the expense of wheat flour reduced energy intake and increased the feeling of fullness, which may have important implications for weight management.

New Study Weighs Benefits of Exercise, Diets Posted: Wednesday, November 22, 2006

While exercise and weight loss are equally effective ways to lose weight, exercising helps to maintain muscles, research finds.

Obese Kidney Transplant Patients Twice As Likely To Die In The First Year Posted: Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Six per cent of patients with a BMI of more than 30 died in the first year after transplant, compared with three per cent of patients with a BMI of less than 30.

Panic Attacks Exacerbate Diabetes Symptoms Posted: Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Repeated panic attacks in people with diabetes can lead to poorer control of the illness, more severe health complications, and a reduced quality of life.

Diabetes Drug Reduces Cardiovascular Risks Posted: Wednesday, November 22, 2006

A drug commonly used to increase the body's sensitivity to insulin may slow the progression of cardiovascular disease in patients with type 2 diabetes, according to a study at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine.

Diabetes Set to Wipe Out Whole Ethnic Populations by End of Century Posted: Wednesday, November 22, 2006

With one in two having diabetes, it could wipe out Maori and Polynesian Islanders by the end of the century, according to an international expert in the disease.

Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome Treated with Malaria Drug Posted: Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Studies of a rare genetic condition that increases cancer risk have unveiled a potential treatment for metabolic syndrome, and diabetes disorders that afflicts as many as one in every four American adults and puts them at sharply increased risk cardiovascular disease, heart attacks and strokes.

 

 

 

 

 

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