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FDA: Byetta Label Revised to Include Safety Information on Possible Kidney Problems

Posted: Monday, November 02, 2009

For Immediate Release: Nov. 2, 2009: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today acted on new safety information about possible kidney function problems, including kidney failure, in patients taking Byetta (exenatide), a drug used to treat Type 2 diabetes.

Patients Starting Dialysis Have Increased Risk of Death

Posted: Monday, November 02, 2009

Compared to the general population, patients starting dialysis have an increased risk of death that is not attributable to a higher rate of death from cardiovascular causes, as previously thought, according to a study.

Link between Male Diabetes Patients with Allergies and Kidney Disease

Posted: Wednesday, September 30, 2009

For men with Type 2 diabetes, the eosinophil (a cell type linked to allergic inflammation) cell count may be able to estimate the risk of diabetes-related kidney and heart disease in men. This comes from a recently published study in Japan.

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!

Diabetic Retinopathy Linked to Inflammatory Markers

Posted: Wednesday, September 23, 2009

In patients with Type 1 diabetes and kidney disease, several serum markers of inflammation and endothelial dysfunction are associated with increasing prevalence and severity of diabetic retinopathy, investigators report.

Immunoglobulin Can Predict Diabetic Complications

Posted: Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Increased excretion of IgM foretells serious cardiovascular issues.

Kidney Disease Predicts Mortality in Type 1 Diabetes

Posted: Wednesday, August 12, 2009

In patients with Type 1 diabetes, the presence and severity of chronic kidney disease predicts all-cause mortality, according to a new report.

Study Finds Intensive Glucose Control Halves Complications of Longstanding Type 1 Diabetes -- Improved Long-Term Outlook

Posted: Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Near-normal control of glucose beginning as soon as possible after diagnosis would greatly improve the long-term prognosis of Type 1 diabetes, concludes a study published in the July 27, 2009, issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, which updates information about the clinical course of Type 1 diabetes.

Bicarbonate Slows Chronic Kidney Disease

Posted: Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Sodium bicarbonate supplementation significantly slowed loss of kidney function and improved nutrition status in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease, data from a two-year study showed.

Drugs May Not Slow Kidney Damage in Diabetes

Posted: Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Results from a new trial have dashed hopes that early use of two blood pressure drugs could slow the loss of kidney function caused by Type 1 diabetes.