Vitamin D deficiency can lead to serious health conditions in gestational diabetes patients… Vitamin D deficiency is a common diagnosis that affects 26-98% of pregnant women. Vitamin D deficiency has been associated with type 2 diabetes, obesity and other factors of metabolic syndrome. Another condition that is associated with insulin …
Read More »Longer Sleep Duration Linked to Type 2 Diabetes
People who sleep 9 or more hours per night are associated with higher risk of incident diabetes according a recent study… Evidences suggests that diabetes and sleep problems are linked to each other. Diabetes can cause insomnia in some people and sleep deprivation may increase for developing diabetes. In a …
Read More »Bariatric Surgery More Likely Than Lifestyle Intervention to Induce Type 2 Diabetes Remission
Results from a three-year study show surgical intervention is superior to intensive lifestyle intervention in achieving meaningful, lasting glycemic control in type 2 diabetes… A study conducted at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center beginning in October 2009 and concluding in June of 2014 randomized 61 obese patients (BMIs ranged …
Read More »Higher Risk of Disordered Eating Behavior Follows Young Women with Type 1 Diabetes into Adulthood
The risk of eating disorders and disordered eating behavior is higher for female adolescents with type 1 diabetes than their non-diabetic counterparts, and remains higher well into adulthood… A recently study followed 126 adolescent girls with type 1 diabetes treated at the diabetes center of the Hospital for Sick Children …
Read More »Maximizing Your Insulin Action
by Dr. Sheri Colberg, Ph.D., FACSM Having ineffective insulin action, or an insulin resistant state, is associated with numerous health risks, such as hyperinsulinemia, or high levels of insulin in the blood, that may damage blood vessels and contribute to arterial plaque formation and heart disease. A decrease in your …
Read More »Knowledge + Change = Reversal of Diabetes
Patients who learn of their status and alter their lifestyle may be able to reverse their disease… Only about one in eight people with so-called pre-diabetes, often a precursor to full-blown disease, know they have a problem, a U.S. study found. Lacking awareness, people with the elevated blood sugar levels …
Read More »Published Results Confirm Weight Loss with Saxenda
Overweight and obese patients taking liraglutide (Saxenda) lost more weight than those on placebo… According to a study of 3,731 patients, those on liraglutide lost an average of 8.4±7.3 kg of body weight, and those in the placebo group lost an average of 2.8±6.5 kg (P
Read More »When Diabetes Gets Out of Control, Get Back to the Basics
A female chef, 28 years of age with type 1 diabetes over 18 years, reported extreme glucose excursions. She had pretty good control up until she took on this profession….
Read More »Paolo Fiorina, MD, PhD, Part 1: Immunotherapy, Stem Cells, and Curing Type 1 Diabetes
Dr. Paolo Fiorina explains how, after 30 years of research into the potential of stem cell therapy and immunotherapy for curing type 1 diabetes, new developments in these fields are offering genuine hope for the first time. In a recent study with about 60 type 1 patients, significant progress was …
Read More »Important Advances in Type 1 Diabetes Research
JDRF-funded studies on development of artificial pancreas, encapsulated islet cell therapies, and kidney preservation presented at 2015 ADA Scientific Sessions.
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