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Lower Cut-Offs Needed in Screening for Gestational Diabetes

Posted: Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Some women who test negative for gestational diabetes on glucose challenge and glucose tolerance tests are still at significant risk of developing Type 2 diabetes and hypertension 15 years later.

Low Rates of Postpartum Diabetes Screening

Posted: Wednesday, October 14, 2009

The rate of postpartum diabetes screening is low, according to the results of a retrospective cohort study.

Weight Loss Independently Predicts Normalization of Glucose Regulation

Posted: Wednesday, October 14, 2009

True diabetes prevention lies not in maintaining a pre-diabetes state but rather in moving from prediabetes to normal glucose regulation, Dr. Leigh Perreault from the University of Colorado in Aurora and colleagues say.

Treating Mild Gestational Diabetes Reduces Serious Birthing Problems

Posted: Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Treating pregnant women for mild gestational diabetes resulted in fewer cesarean sections and other serious birthing problems associated with larger than average babies, according to a recent study.

Diabetes History

Posted: Saturday, September 26, 2009

Diabetes treatments are sure much better today than they were hundreds of years of even several years ago. I would have hated to have had diabetes back even several years before, when meters where big and hard to use, and insulin needles were huge sources of pain when injecting. I'd like to take a look back at what diabetes was like many years ago, and tell you just how far diabetes treatments have come!

Weight Gain During Early-Pregnancy Can Lead to Impaired Glucose Tolerance

Posted: Wednesday, September 02, 2009

Greater gestational weight gain before second-trimester glycemic screening may increase a pregnant woman's risk for impaired glucose tolerance, according to two papers.

The Link Between Obesity and Diabetes

Posted: Wednesday, August 26, 2009

A team of researchers in Sweden, found that people classified as obese and those with pre-diabetes have raised levels of a protein called SPARC, that can cause tissue scarring.

Prevention and Detection of Diabetes Needs to Be a Priority

Posted: Wednesday, July 29, 2009

The National Changing Diabetes((R)) Program (NCDP), a program of Novo Nordisk, and several member associations recently urged President Obama and members of Congress to make the prevention, detection and treatment of diabetes, one of the nation's most pervasive and costly diseases, a priority in reforming the U.S. healthcare system.

Type 2 Diabetes Can Be Stopped in Childhood

Posted: Tuesday, June 30, 2009

A child's current body fat is the strongest predictor of poor insulin sensitivity. But, can 8 year old children give up their sweets, when everyone else around is eating them?

Low Aerobic Fitness Levels, Obesity, Strongly Linked to Diabetes

Posted: Monday, June 22, 2009

Low aerobic fitness levels in young adults make them more than twice as likely to develop diabetes later in life, concludes a recent study. Young women and young African American men demonstrated the lowest fitness levels, portending serious problems in the future for these groups.