http://www.diabetes-watch-blog.com/ New Article Alert From From Diabetes watch blog Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:11:19 GMT en-us http://www.diabetes-watch-blog.com/images/blogs/diabetes-watch-new-article.jpg http://www.diabetes-watch-blog.com/ 90 98 http://www.diabetes-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/3-2011/nicotine-as-main-culprit-in-diabetes-complications.html http://www.diabetes-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/3-2011/nicotine-as-main-culprit-in-diabetes-complications.html Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:11:19 GMT Scientists today reported the first strong evidence implicating nicotine as the main culprit responsible for persistently elevated blood sugar levels � and the resulting increased risk of serious health complications � in people who have diabetes and smoke. In a presentation at the 241st National Meeting and Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS), they said the discovery also may have implications for people with diabetes who are using nicotine-replacement therapy for extended periods in an attempt to stop smoking........ ]]> http://www.diabetes-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/3-2011/helping-diabetes-patients.html http://www.diabetes-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/3-2011/helping-diabetes-patients.html Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:11:19 GMT People with diabetes could be helped by a new type of self-monitoring blood glucose sensor being developed by ASU engineers and clinicians at Mayo Clinic in Arizona. More than 23 million people in the United States have diabetes. The disease is the fifth leading cause of death in the United States. It contributes to a higher risk for heart disease, blindness, kidney failure, lower extremity amputations and other chronic conditions........ ]]> http://www.diabetes-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/2-2011/fatty-liver-and-type-2-diabetes.html http://www.diabetes-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/2-2011/fatty-liver-and-type-2-diabetes.html Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:11:19 GMT A recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (JCEM) observed that individuals with fatty liver were five times more likely to develop type 2 diabetes than those without fatty liver. This higher risk seemed to occur regardless of the patient's fasting insulin levels, which were used as a marker of insulin resistance........ ]]> http://www.diabetes-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/2-2011/brain-insulin-and-diabetes.html http://www.diabetes-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/2-2011/brain-insulin-and-diabetes.html Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:11:19 GMT Scientists from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have discovered a novel function of brain insulin, indicating that impaired brain insulin action appears to be the cause of the unrestrained lipolysis that initiates and worsens type 2 diabetes in humans. The research is published this month in the journal Cell Metabolism........ ]]> http://www.diabetes-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/2-2011/new-devices-to-help-control-diabetes.html http://www.diabetes-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/2-2011/new-devices-to-help-control-diabetes.html Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:11:19 GMT There are more than 21 million diabetics in the United States and most of them control diabetes for many hours every day. People must maintain blood sugar levels as much as possible. However, it requires testing; proper maintenance and eating foods that can help them achieve their goal of controlling the signs of diabetes. For a lot of diabetics, controlling their blood sugar is not an easy task and they must maintain a daily routine of insulin injections, painful finger sticking and glucose tests........ ]]> http://www.diabetes-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/1-2011/taking-more-steps-every-day.html http://www.diabetes-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/1-2011/taking-more-steps-every-day.html Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:11:19 GMT Simply taking more steps every day not only helps ward off obesity but also reduces the risk of diabetes, finds a study published on bmj.com today. While several studies have shown that physical activity reduces body mass index and insulin resistance - an early stage in the development of diabetes - this is the first study to estimate the effects of long-term changes in daily step count on insulin sensitivity........ ]]> http://www.diabetes-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/12-2010/grow-your-own-transplant.html http://www.diabetes-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/12-2010/grow-your-own-transplant.html Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:11:19 GMT Men with type 1 diabetes appears to be able to grow their own insulin-producing cells from their testicular tissue, say Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) scientists who presented their findings today at the American Society of Cell Biology 50th annual meeting in Philadelphia. Their laboratory and animal study is a proof of principle that human spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs) extracted from testicular tissue can morph into insulin-secreting beta islet cells normally found in the pancreas. And the scientists say they accomplished this feat without use of any of the extra genes now employed in most labs to turn adult stem cells into a tissue of choice........ ]]> http://www.diabetes-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/12-2010/predicts-success-in-diabetes.html http://www.diabetes-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/12-2010/predicts-success-in-diabetes.html Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:11:19 GMT A La Jolla Institute team, led by leading type 1 diabetes researcher Matthias von Herrath, M.D., has demonstrated the effectiveness of a recently developed computer model in predicting key information about nasal insulin therapy regimens in type 1 (juvenile) diabetes. Development of the software, the Type 1 Diabetes PhysioLab Platform, was funded through the peer-evaluated grant program of the American Diabetes Association........ ]]> http://www.diabetes-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/11-2010/understanding-diabetes-at-the-molecular-level.html http://www.diabetes-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/11-2010/understanding-diabetes-at-the-molecular-level.html Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:11:19 GMT United States and Japanese scientists have identified a key step in metabolic pathways associated with diabetes and cancer. The study on activation of the protein complex TORC 2 was published online in the journal Current Biology Oct. 28. TORC 2 activates a protein called Akt, which plays a crucial role in how cells respond to insulin, said Kazuo Shiozaki, professor of microbiology in the College of Biological Sciences at UC Davis and senior author on the paper........ ]]> http://www.diabetes-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/9-2010/biological-clock-and-diabetes.html http://www.diabetes-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/9-2010/biological-clock-and-diabetes.html Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:11:19 GMT Biologists have observed that a key protein that regulates the biological clocks of mammals also regulates glucose production in the liver and that altering the levels of this protein can improve the health of diabetic mice. Their discovery, detailed in this week's advanced online publication of the journal Nature Medicine, provides an entirely new biochemical approach for researchers to develop therapys for obesity and type 2 diabetes. It also raises the interesting possibility that some of the rise in diabetes in the U.S. and other major industrialized countries could be a consequence of disturbances in sleep-wake cycles from our increasingly around-the-clock lifestyles........ ]]> http://www.diabetes-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/9-2010/insulin-inflammatory-factors.html http://www.diabetes-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/9-2010/insulin-inflammatory-factors.html Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:11:19 GMT Treating intensive care patients who develop life-threatening bacterial infections, or septicemia, with insulin potentially could reduce their chances of succumbing to the infection, if results of a new preliminary study can be replicated in a larger study. A paper published online ahead of print in Diabetes Care reports that insulin lowered the amount of inflammation and oxidative stress in study participants who had been injected with a common bacteria, or endotoxin, known as LPS (lipopolysaccharide)........ ]]> http://www.diabetes-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/8-2010/new-diabetes-risk-assessment-developed.html http://www.diabetes-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/8-2010/new-diabetes-risk-assessment-developed.html Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:11:19 GMT A team from the University of Leicester, led by Professor Melanie Davies from the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences and Professor Kamlesh Khunti from the Department of Health Sciences, has developed an easy way for people to assess their risk of having diabetes. Working in partnership with Diabetes UK, the largest diabetes charity in the country, and University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, they have produced the first diabetes risk evaluation that can be used in a multi-ethnic population........ ]]> http://www.diabetes-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/7-2010/gestational-diabetes-may-recur.html http://www.diabetes-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/7-2010/gestational-diabetes-may-recur.html Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:11:19 GMT There is an increased risk of recurring gestational diabetes in pregnant women who developed gestational diabetes during their first and second pregnancies, as per a Kaiser Permanente study appearing online in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology The study of 65,132 women observed that in comparison to women without gestational diabetes in their first and second pregnancies, women who developed gestational diabetes during their first but not second pregnancies had a 630 percent increased risk for developing gestational diabetes during their third pregnancy. This risk was even more pronounced 25.9-fold in the third pregnancy for women who had gestational diabetes in their first and second pregnancies........ ]]> http://www.diabetes-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/7-2010/early-detection-of-diabetes.html http://www.diabetes-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/7-2010/early-detection-of-diabetes.html Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:11:19 GMT Having discovered a dramatic increase of an easy-to-detect enzyme in the red blood cells of people with diabetes and prediabetes, Johns Hopkins researchers say the discovery could lead to a simple, routine test for detecting the subtle onset of the disease, before symptoms or complications occur and in time to reverse its course........ ]]> http://www.diabetes-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/7-2010/for-women-with-gestational-diabetes.html http://www.diabetes-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/7-2010/for-women-with-gestational-diabetes.html Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:11:19 GMT A common test to diagnose gestational diabetes - a temporary condition which can harm both mother and child if left untreated - also has predictive power for Type II adult-onset diabetes, a new Tel Aviv University study finds. Dr. Gabriel Chodick of Tel Aviv University's Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine has proven that women who "fail" the glucose challenge test, a series of four blood tests conducted over a single four-hour period, have a higher chance of developing adult onset diabetes during the later part of life. In his latest research, published in the journal Diabetic Medicine, Dr. Chodick observed that nearly half the women who fail all four of the four-part tests, demonstrating an elevated blood sugar level, developed Type II diabetes within ten years........ ]]>