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Diabetes and pre-diabetic conditions appear to increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, but drugs that help regulate blood sugar may help patients with dementia as well, researchers report.

A high normal A1c (HbA1c) reading might be a better, cheaper, and easier-to-use screening tool for prediabetes and diabetes than the laboratory-based oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT).

For people with type 2 diabetes, when pioglitazone and glipizide are given in doses sufficient to achieve equivalent glycemic control, pioglitazone increases total body water, thereby accounting for the majority of weight gain, and decreased visceral and abdominal fat content.

The offspring of women with pregestational diabetes, either type 1 or type 2, are at a three-fold increased risk for perinatal mortality, and a two-fold increased risk for congenital anomalies, compared with the general population.

“It is possible that the insulin deficiency happens when the crystals don’t form properly and then part of the insulin that is produced gets destroyed.”

In women in whom prenatal care is the first medical care they receive, screening for gestational diabetes before they are 24 weeks pregnant could help identify those with pre-gestational diabetes mellitus.

Clinical Screening Tool Developed for Identifying Type 1&1/2 Diabetes Adult Latent Autoimmune Diabetes The presence of 2 or more clinical risk factors for latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA) may be useful for identifying adults at high risk for LADA who require islet antibody testing, a new report suggests.

Fasting blood glucose and HbA1c testing can be a useful screening tool for gestational diabetes. c Control in Diabetes Showed a Significant Improvement When Compared to Standard Therapy.

The body’s ability to heal even small skin wounds normally slows down as we age. But a new study in older adults finds that regular exercise may speed up the wound-healing process by as much as 25 percent.

Women who are physically active before pregnancy are less likely to develop gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), and the GDM risk also rises with the amount of pre-pregnancy television viewing, a new study shows.