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There are mainly two types of diabetes, type-1 and type-2 diabetes. Type-2 diabetes is much more common than type-1 diabetes. Type-2 diabetes accounts for almost 90% of all cases diabetes. Diabetes is an extremely common disease all over the world. Currently nearly 17 million Americans suffer from this disease. Diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States. Despite the fact that about 17 million Americans have type-2 diabetes only half of these people are aware that they have diabetes. People who suffer from diabetes have lower survival rates compared to those who have no diabetes. Patients with diabetes have 11-fold increased mortality compared to persons without the disease. Type-2 diabetes affects the elderly population than the younger folks.

The occurrence of diabetes in persons 45 to 64 years of age is 7 percent, but the diagnosis rate significantly increases in persons 65 years of age or older. All over the world, Type-2 diabetes accounts for more than 90% of all diabetes. Over 100 million people worldwide have type-2 diabetes, and the prevalence is increasing significantly in both the developed and developing worlds. Type-2 diabetes is a lifelong chronic illness, which generally starts in middle age or later part of life, but can start at any age.

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Healthcare expenses are on the ascending trend and millions of people find healthcare costs very unaffordable. Even though medical-coverage is a little on the costlier side, it can be far more expensive to go without it. God forbid, if you were to meet with an accident or fall critically ill, the medical bills could be truly overwhelming, possibly out of your reach. Therefore it is very essential for you to find affordable health insurance. ........Go to the Diabetes-watch-blog (Added on 10/14/2009 10:11:51 PM)

Healthy neighborhoods may result in lower diabetes risk

Individuals living in neighborhoods conducive to physical activity and providing access to healthy foods may have a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes in a five-year period, as per a report in the October 12 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. "The worldwide epidemic of type 2 diabetes mellitus is largely driven by the combined rise in obesity, intake of energy-dense or nutrient-poor foods and........Go to the Diabetes-watch-blog (Added on 10/13/2009 8:20:41 AM)

Reducing sugar and increasing fiber intake

Reducing sugar intake by the equivalent of one can of soda per day and increasing fiber intake by the amount equivalent to one half cup of beans per day appears to improve risk factors linked to type 2 diabetes in Latino adolescents, as per a report in the recent issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Almost 40 percent of Mexican American adolescents age 12 to 19 were overweight or at risk........Go to the Diabetes-watch-blog (Added on 4/7/2009 5:23:10 AM)

Five Eye Care Tips for Diabetics

If you have diabetes you should know that you are more susceptible to eye disorders like glaucoma, cataracts, retinopathy and blindness. But there is a lot that you can do to take charge of and prevent such problems. Here are some tips for diabetics that can help fight these eye disorders. Keep your blood sugar levels in control. In order to achieve this you must stay away from sugary snacks and foods that are highly processed and made from........Go to the Diabetes-watch-blog (Added on 1/20/2009 7:39:11 PM)

Treating gum disease in diabetics

A new report shows that treating gum disease in patients who have diabetes with procedures such as cleanings and periodontal scaling is associated with 10 to 12 percent lower medical costs per month. The findings are encouraging but the study was not designed to firmly establish cause and effect, said George Taylor, University of Michigan associate professor of dentistry, who also has an appointment in epidemiology in the U-M School of........Go to the Diabetes-watch-blog (Added on 12/23/2008 10:22:50 PM)

Diabetes treatment becomes more complex

A progressively more complex and expensive array of therapys for type 2 diabetes is being prescribed to an increasing number of adults, as per a report in the October 27 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. In 2000, more than 11 million Americans had been diagnosed with diabetes, as per background information in the article. "By 2050, the number of Americans with diabetes is expected to soar to 29........Go to the Diabetes-watch-blog (Added on 10/27/2008 10:37:26 PM)

Leptin Can Also Aid Type 1 Diabetics

Terminally ill rodents with type 1 diabetes have been restored to full health with a single injection of a substance other than insulin by researchers at. UT Southwestern Medical Center. Since the discovery of insulin in 1922, type 1 diabetes (insulin-dependent diabetes) in humans has been treated by injecting insulin to lower high blood sugar levels and prevent diabetic coma. New findings by UT Southwestern researchers, which appear........Go to the Diabetes-watch-blog (Added on 8/25/2008 9:30:17 PM)

Diabetes increases risk of tuberculosis

Taken together, studies show that diabetes increases risk of tuberculosis People with diabetes mellitus are at increased risk of developing active tuberculosis (TB), as per an analysis published in PLoS Medicine Searching for research over the past four decades containing data on the relationship between diabetes and TB, Christie Jeon and Megan Murray of the Harvard School of Public Health identified 13 studies involving more than 1.7........Go to the Diabetes-watch-blog (Added on 7/14/2008 9:46:52 PM)

Diabetes linked to male infertility

This release is available in Spanish. . Barcelona, Spain: Diabetes in men has a direct effect on fertility, a scientist told the 24th annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology today (Wednesday 9 July). Dr. Con Mallidis from Queen's University, Belfast, UK, said that, despite the prevailing view that it had little effect on male reproductive function, the Belfast group had shown that diabetes caused DNA........Go to the Diabetes-watch-blog (Added on 7/9/2008 7:35:42 PM)

Trans-fatty acids and insulin sensitivity

Trans-fatty acids have been the topic of a lot of negative health news, but in the July Journal of Lipid research, a dietary study in rats suggests that trans-fats do not increase the risk of insulin resistance and diabetes, which may ease at least one area of concern. Epidemiological studies indicate that chronic consumption of trans-fats may alter muscle insulin sensitivity, as their unusual molecular shapes can reduce muscle's ability to........Go to the Diabetes-watch-blog (Added on 7/8/2008 8:56:48 PM)

A step towards better diabetes treatment

In today's issue of the prestigious journal Cell Metabolism Uppsala scientists are presenting new findings that shed light on the processes that determine the release of the blood sugar-lowering hormone insulin. The discovery is based on the development of image analysis methods that make possible the detailed study of events immediately inside the plasma membrane of the insulin-secreting cells. Cyclic AMP (cAMP) is a universal messenger........Go to the Diabetes-watch-blog (Added on 7/1/2008 8:51:26 PM)

Caught "red-handed" for the first time

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis working with diabetic mice have examined in unprecedented detail the immune cells long believed to be responsible for type 1 diabetes. Scientists were able to examine the immune cells from isolated insulin-making structures in the pancreas known as the islets of Langerhans. They caught the immune cells, known as dendritic cells, "red-handed" carrying insulin and fragments........Go to the Diabetes-watch-blog (Added on 5/11/2008 10:15:48 AM)

Protein reverses diabetic retinopathy in mice

Two major eye diseases and leading causes of blindnessage-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathycan be reversed or even prevented by drugs that activate a protein found in blood vessel cells, scientists at the University of Utah School of Medicine and several other institutions have announced in a new study. Damage from both diseases was prevented and even reversed when the protein, Robo4, was activated in mice models that........Go to the Diabetes-watch-blog (Added on 3/16/2008 9:27:42 PM)

ADVANCE diabetes trial

Data from the ADVANCE Study, involving 11,140 high-risk patients with type 2 diabetes, provides no evidence of an increased risk of death among those patients receiving aggressive therapy to lower blood glucose.........Go to the Diabetes-watch-blog (Added on 2/28/2008 10:14:59 PM)

Intensive blood sugar treatment on trial

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health has stopped one therapy within a large, ongoing North American clinical trial of diabetes and cardiovascular disease 18 months early due to safety concerns after review of available data, eventhough the study will continue. In this trial of adults with type 2 diabetes at particularly high risk for heart attack and stroke, the medical strategy to........Go to the Diabetes-watch-blog (Added on 2/6/2008 9:30:24 PM)

Carrot cake study on sugar in type 2 diabetes

Patients with type 2 diabetes are often advised to cut out sucrose (table sugar) all together. However, in recent years this traditional advice has been questioned by some scientists who suggest that moderate amounts of sugar can be safely consumed as part of the diet of patients with diabetes. Now a new study has been published that is consistent with this revised approach. It showed that patients who increased their daily sugar intake (in the........Go to the Diabetes-watch-blog (Added on 1/8/2008 9:40:59 PM)

Smoking associated with increased risk of diabetes

A review of prior studies indicates that people who currently smoke have an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, compared with non-smokers, as per an article in the December 12 issue of JAMA. Many studies have examined the association between smoking and occurence rate of glucose abnormalities, and have suggested that smoking could be independently linked to glucose intolerance, impaired fasting glucose and type 2 diabetes, which........Go to the Diabetes-watch-blog (Added on 12/11/2007 10:44:08 PM)

Lifestyle Changes for diabetes

Sustaining modest weight loss for 10 years, or taking an anti-diabetic drug over that time, can prevent or lower the occurence rate of type 2 diabetes in people at high risk for developing the disease, as per the Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study (DPPOS), a long-term follow-up to a landmark 2001 diabetes prevention study. Jill Crandall, M.D., associate professor of clinical medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva........Go to the Diabetes-watch-blog (Added on 11/2/2009 11:32:28 PM)

Sitagliptin could trigger pancreatitis

A drug widely used to treat Type 2 diabetes may have unintended effects on the pancreas that could lead to a form of low-grade pancreatitis in some patients and a greater risk of pancreas cancer in long-term users, UCLA scientists have found. As per a research findings reported in the online edition of the journal Diabetes, scientists from the Larry L. Hillblom Islet Research Center at UCLA observed that sitagliptin, sold in pill form as........Go to the Diabetes-watch-blog (Added on 4/30/2009 9:41:26 PM)

Those diabetics high-fiber diets

Scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center report that patients with noninsulin-dependent diabetes (type 2) excreted less calcium through their urine when they consumed 50 grams of fiber a day than when they ate 24 grams a day. Excreting less calcium indicates that they absorbed less of the mineral. "We already know that fiber helps improve your cholesterol and glucose control and improves your bowel regularity. Our new findings suggest........Go to the Diabetes-watch-blog (Added on 3/24/2009 6:19:58 AM)

An Old Dawg Can Learn New Tricks!

In an interview with Diabetes Forecast - the consumer magazine of the American Diabetes Association - Randy Jackson reveals his type 2 diabetes story, the hurdles and the path to therapy. This year, Randy Jackson celebrates 10 years of type 2 diabetes: Jackson, who was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 1999, was shocked when he learned that he had a chronic disease. "They were sneaky symptoms," he says. "Of course, I didn't take into........Go to the Diabetes-watch-blog (Added on 1/28/2009 6:59:36 PM)

Type 1 diabetes and celiac disease linked

Type 1 (juvenile) diabetes and celiac disease appear to share a common genetic origin, scientists at the University of Cambridge and Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, have confirmed. Their findings, which are reported in this week's edition of the New England Journal (NEJM), identified seven chromosome regions which are shared between the two diseases. The research suggests that type 1 diabetes and celiac disease may be........Go to the Diabetes-watch-blog (Added on 12/11/2008 5:19:28 AM)

New source of insulin-producing cells

Scientists at the Joslin Diabetes Center have shown that insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells can form after birth or after injury from progenitor cells within the pancreas that were not beta cells, a finding that contradicts a widely-cited earlier study that had concluded this is not possible. The study, published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition, identifies the source of the........Go to the Diabetes-watch-blog (Added on 11/24/2008 9:49:50 PM)

Battling Diabetes with Beta Cells

Affecting eight percent of America's population, diabetes can lead to blindness, kidney failure, strokes and heart disease. Thanks to Tel Aviv University researchers, a new cure -- based on advances in cell treatment -- may be within reach. Prof. Shimon Efrat from TAU's Sackler Faculty of Medicine, whose research group is among world leaders in beta cell expansion, has developed a way to cultivate cells derived from insulin-producing beta........Go to the Diabetes-watch-blog (Added on 9/2/2008 8:34:22 PM)

Diabetes transmitted from parents to children

A new study in the recent issue of the Journal of Lipid Research suggests an unusual form of inheritance may have a role in the rising rate of diabetes, particularly in children and young adults, in the United States. DNA is the primary mechanism of inheritance; kids get half their genes from mom and half from dad. However, researchers are just starting to understand additional kinds of inheritance like metabolic programming, which occurs........Go to the Diabetes-watch-blog (Added on 8/20/2008 6:24:31 PM)

'Snapshots' of eyes could serve as early warning of diabetes

A new vision screening device, already shown to give an early warning of eye disease, could give doctors and patients a head start on treating diabetes and its vision complications, a new study shows. The instrument, invented by two researchers at the University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center, captures images of the eye to detect metabolic stress and tissue damage that occur before the first symptoms of disease are evident. For people........Go to the Diabetes-watch-blog (Added on 7/14/2008 9:36:56 PM)

Dietary Adherence Associated with Better Glucose Control

A study by scientists at the Joslin Diabetes Center has shown that adherence to prescribed dietary recommendations is linked to better glucose control in children with type 1 diabetes. "In recent years, diabetes management has been focused around new medications and technologies," said Lori Laffel, M.D., senior author of the paper, which is reported in the recent issue of Diabetes Care. "In this study, we were encouraged to identify the........Go to the Diabetes-watch-blog (Added on 7/1/2008 9:51:21 PM)

Hearing loss is common in people with diabetes

Hearing loss is about twice as common in adults with diabetes in comparison to those who do not have the disease, as per a new study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). "Hearing loss may be an under-recognized complication of diabetes. As diabetes becomes more common, the disease may become a more significant contributor to hearing loss," said senior author Catherine Cowie, Ph.D., of the National Institute of Diabetes and........Go to the Diabetes-watch-blog (Added on 6/16/2008 10:18:00 PM)

Cocoa could be a healthy treat for diabetic patients

For people with diabetes, sipping a mug of steaming, flavorful cocoa may seem a guilty pleasure. But new research suggests that indulging a craving for cocoa can actually help blood vessels to function better and might soon be considered part of a healthy diet for the prevention of cardiovascular disease. Flavanols, natural plant compounds also found in tea, red wine, and certain fruits and vegetables, are responsible for cocoas healthful........Go to the Diabetes-watch-blog (Added on 5/26/2008 8:37:40 PM)

Gene linked to severe diabetic eye

Scientists at the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah and collaborative institutions have identified a gene called erythropoietin (EPO) that contributes to increased risk of severe diabetic eye and kidney diseases, called retinopathy and nephropathy. The sight-threatening form of diabetic retinopathy, termed proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR), is the most common cause of legal blindness in working-aged adults in the........Go to the Diabetes-watch-blog (Added on 5/5/2008 8:18:40 PM)

Diabetes Drug To Treat Depression

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are seeking individuals who have depression and are overweight to volunteer for a study evaluating whether a diabetes drug might help improve mood. The five-year, NIH-funded study seeks 200 people with depression who are overweight and at risk for developing diabetes. Participants will be screened for depression and insulin resistance, one of the first signs of developing........Go to the Diabetes-watch-blog (Added on 2/7/2008 9:25:33 PM)

Diabetes makes it hard for blood vessels to relax

One way diabetes is bad for your blood vessels is by creating too much competition for an amino acid that helps blood vessels relax, scientists say. That amino acid, L-arginine, is broken down by the enzyme arginase to urea, which helps the body eliminate toxins resulting from the proteins we eat. Diabetics have a lot of arginase activity, which means they use a lot more L-arginine, says Dr. Maritza Romero, postdoctoral fellow at the Medical........Go to the Diabetes-watch-blog (Added on 1/31/2008 8:53:33 PM)

Notch-ing glucose into place

A novel gene called rumi regulates Notch signaling by adding a glucose molecule to the part of the Notch protein that extends outside a cell, said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and Stony Brook University in New York in a report that appears today in the journal Cell. Cellular signaling governed by the Notch protein determines cell fate determination and differentiation. The complete loss of rumi causes a........Go to the Diabetes-watch-blog (Added on 1/28/2008 5:19:03 AM)

Researchers trigger insulin production in diabetic mice

If the human body were a stage, then proteins would rank among the lead actors in the play we call Life. These large biological molecules hold a number of starring roles, and their lines are dictated by information encoded in our genes. They are production powerhouses, regulating the basic processes of living and controlling countless functions. A number of are enzymes that produce or use energy. Others regulate genes. Scientists are........Go to the Diabetes-watch-blog (Added on 1/8/2008 8:42:07 PM)

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