Issue 536

To Increase Insulin Action Best, Do You Need Fewer Carbohydrates, Low-GI Ones, or More Exercise?

  By Sheri Colberg, PhD   Insulin action i...

Letter from the Editor, August 29, 2010: Popeye vs Wimpy

It appears there is a classic battle brewing between Popeye and Wimpy as to what works better for your health.  Popeye thinks he was right when he said, "I'm strong to the finich, 'Cause I eats me spinach," as a new study of over 220,000...

Heart Risk from Actos® as Great as from Avandia®, Study Suggests

According to a study published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, the heart risk from Actos is just as great as the risk posed by Avandia according to a story published Tuesday, August 24 by the Los Angeles...

Test Your Knowledge #536: A 56-year-old man with a history of diabetes secondary to chronic pancreatitis...

A 56-year-old man with a history of diabetes secondary to chronic pancreatitis with exocrine insufficiency is scheduled for intestinal resection because of colon cancer. He usually takes insulin glargine 30 U at night and insulin lispro at...

Tool for Your Practice: Physical Activity Log

Physical Activity Log

Larger Waist Associated with Greater Risk of Death

Larger Waist Associated with Greater Risk of Death: A new study found that those with a larger waist size are more likely are at greater risk of dying from any cause over a nine-year period. Eric J. Jacobs, Ph.D., and colleagues at the American...

Diabetes-Related Hospitalizations on the Rise

Diabetes-Related Hospitalizations on the Rise: Nearly one in five hospitalizations in 2008 were related to diabetes, according to a recent report by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. That means a total of more than 7.7 million...

Unpleasant People May Be More Prone to Stroke

Unpleasant People May Be More Prone to Stroke: People with antagonistic or disagreeable personalities have vascular abnormalities that may make them more prone to strokes and perhaps other cardiovascular events, researchers said. Carotid artery...

Nanoparticle Vaccine Cures Type 1 in Mice

Using a sophisticated nanotechnology-based "vaccine," researchers were able to successfully cure mice with Type 1 diabetes and slow the onset of the disease in mice at risk for the disease…  

Raised HDL Cholesterol Less Protective in Those with Low LDL

HDL-cholesterol concentrations are inversely associated with occurrence of cardiovascular events…

Green Leafy Vegetables Cuts The Risk of Diabetes by 14%

A British meta-analysis found that increasing the daily intake of green leafy vegetables can reduce the risk of Type 2 diabetes… 

New Surgical Procedure for Type 2 Diabetes Shows a 95% Remission

A Brazilian surgeon has developed a new procedure usinging surgical intervention through "Ileal Transposition" (or small intestinal switch) that can effectively control Type 2 diabetes…

NAVIGATOR Confirms Diet and Exercise Still Best

Two strategies aimed at preventing cardiovascular events in high-risk patients -- use of an angiotensin receptor blocker or a short-acting insulin secretagogue for five years -- failed to reduce myocardial infarction or stroke, researchers...

Evolution the Cause for Greater Risk for Type 1 Diabetes?

Gene variants associated with an increased risk for Type 1 diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis may confer previously unknown benefits to their human carriers. As a result, the human race may have been evolving in the recent past to be more...

Ultimate Diabetes Survivors, the Joslin 50-Year Medalists, Give Clues to Cures

In Type 1 diabetes, the body relentlessly attacks and destroys its own insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells. But a study by Joslin Diabetes Center scientists now has firmly established that beta-cells endure for many decades in a small...

Little Difference among Drugs Treating Long Term Elevated Blood Pressure

Generic thiazide-type diuretics are just as good as newer, more expensive antihypertensives, researchers again emphasized with long-term ALLHAT trial results…

A Burger, Shake and Some Statins

Patrons of fast-food restaurants may see packets containing statins next to the ketchup and salt at the self-serve counter if the suggestion of British researchers becomes reality… 

Income Levels Linked to Diabetes in Women

A 14 year study indicates that Type 2 diabetes is more likely to be developed by lower income women than their counterparts making more money. But the study also says some additional factors may be the culprit too…. 

Cell Therapy Improves Foot Ulcer Healing by 31-40%

Engineered skin significantly improved healing of diabetic foot ulcers compared with other advanced biologic therapies, according to an analysis of a larger wound care database…  

Adjust Insulin Pump after Exercise to Avoid Nocturnal Hypoglycemia

In diabetic children with insulin pumps, lowering the basal insulin rate after exercise can prevent nighttime hypoglycemia, a new study shows…