For men and women with prediabetes, insulin sensitivity increases to a similar extent with exercise training, metformin, or a combination of the two, with metformin impacting slightly on the effect of exercise.…
Read More »Free Screenings Can Show One in Four Has Hidden Prediabetes or Diabetes
Free screening by trained volunteers can pick up cases of dysglycemia and other diabetic conditions in the general population….
Read More »Weight-Loss Surgery and the New Addiction, Part 2 of 2
By Tricia Greaves, President of The Nelson Center For Part 1, please click here. In order to break the cycle of addiction, regardless of the “drug of choice,” it is essential that a person address the underlying causes of their addiction. Obviously, a person isn’t born morbidly obese. He or …
Read More »Maternal Age, BMI and Race Are Factors in Gestational Diabetes
Age and BMI are important factors in whether a woman will develop GDM, and those factors are particularly relevant in black African and South Asian women.…
Read More »A Culture of Obesity? Time to Walk the Walk
By Sheri Colberg, PhD In updating a chapter on exercise and diabetes for the American College of Sports Medicine, I came across a recently published article about the benefits of lifestyle modification for diabetes prevention. In this study by Djoussé and colleagues at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital …
Read More »Metformin in Gestational Diabetes
Children exposed to metformin had larger measures of subcutaneous fat, but overall body fat was the same as in children whose mothers were treated with insulin alone.…
Read More »Elevated Liver Function Enzymes Tied to Diabetes Risk
High alanine aminotransferase, γ-glutamyl transferase may predict risk of type 2 diabetes….
Read More »Obesity Drug Contrave Back on Track
The investigational weight-loss combination of naltrexone standard release and bupropion standard release (Contrave) reduces the predicted 10-year risk of cardiovascular events, an analysis of four phase III trials showed.…
Read More »Low-Glycemic Index Diet Doesn’t Change Outcomes with Gestational Diabetes
Pregnancy outcomes with gestational diabetes are similar whether women follow a low-glycemic index (LGI) diet or a conventional high-fiber diet, according to a study….
Read More »Tight Control No Help for Cognitive Loss in Diabetes
Tight glucose control won’t mitigate the cognitive effects of type 2 diabetes, an ACCORD subanalysis found.…
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