A group of researchers have come to the conclusion that Diabetes mellitus (DM) mortality risk is relatively higher among the older adults and women. Especially the women treated with insulin therapy recorded a significantly higher risk of mortality.
A group of researchers recently conducted research work on the impact of whole grain and bran on type 2 diabetes. The association of germ with type 2 diabetes is found not so strong. The research have found out that all these three products have inverse effect on the risk of type 2 diabetes. The result of the study supports the consumption of whole grain to prevent type 2 diabetes risk.
Diabetes Prevention Program Research Group has conducted a research on the prevalence of retinopathy in impaired glucose tolerance and recent-onset diabetes. Retinopathy is closely related to diabetes. The study has found that problem of retinopathy is present in persons with elevated fasting glucose and impaired glucose tolerance and no known history of diabetes. The prevalence of retinopathy is significantly higher in persons who develop diabetes. The prevalence of retinopathy is significantly higher in persons who develop diabetes.
At the 17th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, David S. H Bell of the University of Alabama School of Medicine, said that type 2 diabetes is likely to bring cardiovascular comorbidities along with metabolic health problem. As a result the doctors are advised to treat diabetes patients like a cardiovascular patients. At the conference he discussed the relation between diabetes and cardiac problems.
Here is a good news for those millions of type 1 diabetes patients. The NIH has decided to fund the clinical study that will focus on the new treatment to transplant the islet into the diabetes patients for improvement and long lasting blood sugar control. The clinical trial will cover scientists from 11 countries like Canada, Sweden, USA.
Piramal Life Sciences Ltd, part of the Piramal Group of companies in Mumbai, commenced a phase I clinical study of P1736 drug in Netherlands.
Researchers at the University of Leicester suggested a health policy by screening people at the risk of diabetes. Apart from being a prospective health policy, it can be helpful in improving the lives of the patients. The study is a part of the interdisciplinary research initiative in the social and medical sciences. The study was jointly funded by Economic and Social Research Council and Medical Research Council.
For the first time researchers at the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) demonstrated in the mouse model that skeletal muscle cells, cultured in a low-calorie environment refrain from differentiating an energy-demanding process by which cells mature and specialize. The study was published in the Developmental Cell.
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