Diabetes Cure Blog

In the biggest study of its kind, the researchers from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have found the link between diabetes and the child birth defects. The study concluded that diabetic mother runs the risks of delivering a defective child by three or four times. The birth defects can be anything like heart [...]

American Diabetes Association (ADA) for the first time is going to launch an online tool named MyFoodAdvisor. This tool will help to judge the calorie level of the food that a diabetic or cardiac patient take.

The National Institute of Health and the Micronesian Institute of Prevention and Research have decided to recruit residents to help them find the genetic causes of diabetes and kidney disease. Research Coordinator Tanisha Franquez said the study is intended to better understand why the conditions are so prevalent in the Pacific.

Jazz owner and business magnate - Larry Miller’s poor health may act as a wake up call for all other diabetics. And hopefully this will motivate them to regulate their glucose levels, blood pressure, cholesterol and weight.

The recent study by the Sydney based George Institute for International Health, finds out that by lowering the blood glucose level, patients can reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes by 10%. It also finds that well controlled blood glucose can cut down various other risks of renal disease and cardiovascular risks by 21% [...]

A group of researchers of the University of Heidelberg, Germany, working on type 1 diabetes and end stage renal disease (ESRD), says that simultaneous kidney transplant with pancreas transplant will increase the long term survival as compared to kidney transplant alone.

The use of shock waves to pulverise kidney stones into sand-like material significantly increases the risk for diabetes and high blood pressure later in life, according to the longest follow-up study (published from the Mayo Clinic) of the popular therapy.

Consumption of coffee, particularly the decaffeinated variety, is associated with a reduced risk of diabetes, according to a report in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Technology that identifies landforms, geology and vegetation types from satellite images of the earth’s surface has been used to help identify insulin-related structures in electron microscope images of the pancreas.

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 [...]