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Anemia Often Develops in Type 2 Diabetics: Study Posted: Thursday, November 30, 2006

In patients with type 2 diabetes, a decrease in hemoglobin (Hb) is insidious and occurs predominantly in older people with chronic kidney disease and damaged large blood vessels, research suggests.

Metabolic Syndrome Classification of Little Help in Diabetics Posted: Thursday, November 30, 2006

A diagnosis of metabolic syndrome does not appear to provide additional prognostic information in patients with type 2 diabetes.

A Cup of Confusion: Is Coffee Healthy or Not? Posted: Thursday, November 30, 2006

New studies suggest java helps protect against major diseases, including diabetes.

Diabetes Linked to Lower Prostate Cancer Risk Posted: Thursday, November 30, 2006

Having type 2 diabetes may have one benefit, in that men with long-term diabetes may have a reduced risk of prostate cancer, according to the results of a study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

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.

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.

Rimonabant (Accomplia) to Treat Obesity and Improve Glycemic Control Approved in Mexico Posted: Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Accomplia is now approved in Europe and Mexico, US next?

WelChol Improves Glycemic Control and Cholesterol in Uncontrolled Type 2’s Posted: Wednesday, November 22, 2006

This is the first study ever to evaluate WelChol in combination with insulin, and it demonstrated A1C reductions of 0.5%

 

 

 

 

 

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