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Blood Glucose Monitoring for Non-Insulin Users Shows No Benefits Posted: Saturday, June 30, 2007

Regular self-monitoring of blood glucose, at least by people with type 2 diabetes who do not use insulin injections, did not result in a clinically significant reduction in blood glucose control in a year-long study.

Fetus At Risk At Lower Levels of Maternal Blood Glucose Than Thought Posted: Saturday, June 30, 2007

New Findings Likely to Lead to More Diagnoses of Gestational Diabetes.

Predicting Severe Hypoglycemia Posted: Friday, June 08, 2007

Severe hypoglycemia often follows a specific blood glucose fluctuation pattern that is identifiable from SMBG.

Lack of Diabetes Care in Nursing Homes Posted: Friday, June 01, 2007

We have guidelines on how to mange diabetes for the outpatient and the hospital patient, but we have no guidelines for treating people in nursing homes and the results of a study showed that only 38 percent are at goal.

Type 2 Diabetes Devastating for Teens Posted: Friday, June 01, 2007

"The complications associated with adolescents' type 2 diabetes seems to behave differently than in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes." These complications may be present at the time of diagnosis, and their rate of progression may be higher than in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes.

Insulin Levels Can Predict Weight Loss on Certain Diets Posted: Friday, May 25, 2007

Individual differences in insulin secretion may explain why some individuals respond well to either a low-fat diet or low-glycemic-load diet, whereas others do not. The findings imply that a simple, baseline oral glucose tolerance test to assess serum insulin concentration may help clinicians and dieticians choose weight-loss strategies for obese subjects.

Urine Test Predicts Diabetic Kidney Disease Posted: Friday, May 25, 2007

Looking at various proteins in urine may help doctors predict the development of diabetic nephropathy in type 2 diabetes patients well before they develop the condition.

New BG Test - The BIGTT Test Posted: Thursday, May 03, 2007

A novel test for the simultaneous measurement of pancreatic beta-cell function, insulin sensitivity, and glucose tolerance has been developed and validated.

Type 2 Diabetes Often Asymptomatic in Children Posted: Wednesday, April 25, 2007

The overall prevalence of type 2 diabetes has increased 5-fold in the United States since the 1960s, and children and adolescents are among those affected. However, children often exhibit no symptoms. Therefore, physicians need to be alert for this disease in children and open to the possibility that patients in their 20s might be suffering from the long-term complications of preexisting type 2 disease.

First Person Gets New Vaccine Against Diabetes Posted: Wednesday, April 11, 2007

A Melbourne 11-year old schoolboy is the first person in the world to take a pioneering vaccine against diabetes.

 

 

 

 

 

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