Diabetes Cure Blog

Researchers of the Mayo Clinic looked at the CT scans of 23 pancreatic cancer patients taken before their diagnosis for unrelated reasons. Half of the patients had diabetes and saw the beginning of their diabetes over six months before they were diagnosed with cancer.

Report says that the risk of developing diabetes for people who don’t smoke nonsmokers — but not smokers — is lower in those with higher levels of carotenoids, which is a plant-derived antioxidants found in vegetables such as carrots, tomatoes and spinach in their blood.

According to new findings (by Dr Eric Taylor, of Harvard Medical School, Boston, and colleagues), diuretics and beta-blockers, used to treat hypertension, are associated with an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

Research is undergoing to determine whether the experimental drug pirfenidone can slow kidney disease in diabetics. The study is recruiting patients. Pirfenidone has been beneficial in other diseases involving scar formation, such as pulmonary fibrosis and focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. The drug may be able to slow scar formation in diabetic kidney disease as well, possibly [...]

The latest estimates from a study published recently in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine shows that some 2.7 million adolescents are at risk for developing type 2 diabetes and another 39,000 already have the disease that was once seen only in adults.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were 18.2 million people with diabetes in 2002, and 5.2 million, it was estimated, didn’t know they had the disease.

Two teams of scientists identified the hormone insulin on Wednesday as the trigger that causes the more severe form of diabetes.

Nearly 21 million Americans have diabetes. The most life-threatening consequences of diabetes are heart diseases and stroke, which strike people with diabetes twice as often as people without the disease.

Fat New Zealanders are a visible warning of a looming public health crisis, says visiting United Kingdom diabetes expert David Kerr.

Report shows that HIV/AIDS and other communicable diseases are not only the main health problem of African, they are also face chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease.