Issue 485

Tool for Your Practice: Diabetic Flow Chart

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tPA for Stroke Moving Out to 4.5 Hours:

Interview with Ralph L. Sacco, MD. Strokes are increasing in our diabetes patients as they age and tPA has been the standard of care in the emergency room, but within 3 hours or forget it. Now...

Injuries Related to Being Active with Diabetes: Part 2 (Prevention of Overuse Injuries)

Test Your Knowledge #485: A 36-year-old woman who has had Type 2 diabetes for 2 years is evaluated

A 36-year-old woman who has had Type 2 diabetes for 2 years is evaluated because she has just discovered that she is 5 weeks' pregnant. She currently takes glyburide and rosiglitazone. Her most recent hemoglobin A1c value was 8.2%. She says...

Letter from the Editor #485

There are two things that we have spent time bringing you information on over the past few weeks that won’t seem to go away.   The GDH-PQQ monitoring controversy has moved to the hospital setting as companies using...

Mediterranean Diet May Be Best for Type 2 Diabetes

Mediterranean Diet May Be Best for Type 2 Diabetes. Reduced need for meds, helped some lose weight compared to low-fat diet. The Mediterranean diet, long touted as a...

Doctors Bust Myths about Insulin

Doctors Bust Myths about Insulin. People newly diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes often resist taking insulin because they fear gaining weight, developing low blood sugar, and seeing their quality of life decline. A new study...

Teflon-coated Cells Could Help Treat Type 1 Diabetes

Teflon-coated Cells Could Help Treat Type 1 Diabetes. Scientists have invented a tiny implant covered in Teflon coating that contains transplanted insulin-producing cells. Teflon, the chemical used to coat non-stick pans,...

Exercise Alone Improves Insulin Sensitivity

Exercise Alone Improves Insulin Sensitivity. A moderate aerobic exercise program, without weight loss, can improve insulin sensitivity in both lean and obese sedentary...

Diabetes Vaccine Diamyd® Shows Reduction or Halting Destruction of Beta-Cells 4 Years Later

Diamyd Medical announced last week that the company's 4-year follow-up of Type 1 diabetes patients included in the company's Phase II study shows a clear positive trend.

New Pump CGMS Combo Detects Hypo’s and Turns Off Automatically

This new device, now available in more than 50 countries outside of the United States, can automatically suspend insulin delivery when the device senses that glucose levels have fallen to or below a user-selected threshold.

Low-Fat versus Low-Carbohydrate Weight Reduction Diets

Effects on weight loss, insulin resistance and cardiovascular risk: a randomised control trial.

New Molecule Combats Diabetes and Obesity by Increasing GLP-1

We now have drugs that can replace the GLP-1 hormone and we have drugs that can reduce the destruction of GLP-1. Now we may have a drug that increases the production of GLP-1.

Blueberry Juice Fights Fat and Diabetes

Juice extracted from North American lowbush blueberries, biotransformed with bacteria from the skin of the fruit, holds great promise as an anti-obesity and anti-diabetic agent, showing a reduction in blood glucose by...

New Target for Preventing Type 1 Diabetes

The study of the role of an enzyme called 12-Lipoxygenase (12-LO), may find the answer to preventing  the destruction of the beta-cells and could be a vital step in preventing Type 1 diabetes.

Insulin as First Therapy for Type 2 Diabetes: Study

Insulin can be safely and effectively used as a first-line treatment, in combination with metformin, in patients with newly diagnosed Type 2 diabetes, with high rates of patient satisfaction and compliance, results of a study...

Eat "Junk" and Don't Get Fat

Researchers find a gene that protects mice on a high-fat diet from becoming obese. University of Michigan researchers have identified a gene that acts as a master switch to control obesity. When the switch is turned off, even high-fat-diet...

Ninety-three Percent of Type 2’s Not Following Nutritional Recommendations?

Ninety-three percent of participants exceeded the recommended percentage of daily calories from fat, 85 percent exceeded the saturated fat recommendation and 92 percent...

New Link Shows that We Are Not "Victims of Our Genes"

A new study may give new meaning to...

Insulin-Producing Cells Made from Adult Skin Cells

Using skin cells from people with Type 1 diabetes, researchers were able to produce cells that made insulin in response to changing blood sugar levels.

Key protein Links Obesity, Diabetes and Heart Disease

Researchers say they know why obesity leads to diabetes and cardiovascular disease, a finding that may help experts target therapies to limit the health impact of being very overweight.  

Increased Sedentary Time Predicts Insulin Resistance

Increased time spent sedentary is prospectively associated with elevated fasting insulin levels in healthy middle-aged adults independent of the amount of time spent in moderate and vigorous-intensity physical activity (MVPA), according to...

Mediterranean Diet Delays Need for Drugs in Diabetes

The Mediterranean diet, long touted as a healthy eating plan, may help people with Type 2 diabetes stay off blood sugar-lowering medications, as well as help them lose weight and lower cardiovascular risk factors. 

Being Short Linked with Diabetic Complications

Being short in adulthood is associated with an increased risk of microvascular complications in patients with Type 1 diabetes, according to a report.