“Sleep apnea” bothers atleast 36 percent of diabetes type 2 patients

January 9th, 2009

Are you a diabetic? and always feel sleepy in the day time? snore loudly? check up yourself immediately with a specialist, you might be suffering from sleep apnea, a potentially life-threatening problem affecting one out of three diabetics. Treatment is necessary to avoid high risk of blood pressure, heart problems and other complications.

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Beware Young men: diabetes type 2 may cut down your testosterone level

January 7th, 2009

Slow killer diabetes is gradually unfolding it’s dark world day by day. Very recently researchers at the University of Buffalo confirmed that diabetes type 2 can lower down the testosterone level of young men.

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Diabetes vaccine Diamyd® for the prevention of type 1 diabetes is expected around 2010

January 6th, 2009

Diamyd Medical is a Swedish biopharmaceutical company focusing on development of pharmaceuticals for treatment of autoimmune diabetes and its complications.

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Top 10 reasons why people suffering from diabetes and other diseases should try oatmeal

January 5th, 2009

Oatmeal is a product of ground oat groats (i.e. oat-meal, The term, ‘oatmeal’ can refer also to other products made from oat groats, such as cut oats, crushed oats, and rolled oats. The groats are coarsely ground to make oatmeal, or cut into small pieces to make steel-cut oats, or steamed and rolled to make rolled oats.

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Top 10 hidden dangers of diabetes type 2 you must know

January 5th, 2009

Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes. Nearly 85 to 90 % of all the patients with the disease suffer from from type 2 diabetes. It is also referred as late onset diabetes and characterized by insufficient production of insulin by pancreatic ß-cells or  insulin resistance (reduced target-tissue sensitivity to the effects of insulin).

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Just relax with your heavy bottom it may help you fight diabetes type 2

January 5th, 2009

If you can’t squeeze yourself inside your skinny jeans then just let it be like that, as scientists from Harvard Medical School in America says that special types of fats which accumulates around the hips and bottom may help protect against the risk of developing diabetes type 2.

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Why diabetic New Yorkers are careless about their health?

January 2nd, 2009

A study by the city health department, published in the online journal Diabetes Care, shows diabetic New Yorkers are not doing enough to treat health problem. According to the findings of the study over 90% of the patients with diabetes suffer from elevated cholesterol, blood sugar and blood pressure. Such conditions unavoidably increases the risk for strokes, heart attacks and other complications.

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New promising treament for diabetes type 1

January 2nd, 2009

Type 1 diabetes has long been known as an incurable autoimmune disease. In patients with type 1 diabetes, the immune system  destroys the body’s pancreatic beta cells that produce insulin for breaking down sugar or glucose to be used by the body. This further results in rise of the blood glucose and leads to complications such as kidney disease, blindness, heart disease and even premature death.

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Diabetes can effect the brain and rob your memory

January 2nd, 2009

When Experts think about diabetes, they usually think about heart disease and all the consequences for the rest of the body, but they never think about the brain. The new study at Columbia University Medical Center find out something that we’ve got to be really worried about.

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Beware, children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes may also suffer from Vitamin D deficiency

December 31st, 2008

A majority of children, adolescents suffering from type 1 diabetes have lower levels of vitamin D, suggests a research made at Joslin Diabetes Center.

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