Sustained release (SR) indapamide lowers blood pressure in diabetic hypertensives without affecting glucose metabolism or having other untoward effects,
Read More »Issue 171 Item 12 Seven to Ten Percent Weight Loss Through Exercise Provides Con
Patients who exercised just for ½ hour for 5 days a week, lost 7% of their body weight and showed a 57% improvement in their insulin sensitivity.
Read More »Issue 171 Item 13 Heart Defects Seen in Diabetes Patients Before Symptoms Occur
Patients with diabetes may have cardiac defects that put them at risk of a heart attack — even before they show any symptoms, according to a poster presentation at the 18th International Diabetes Foundation Congress.
Read More »Issue 171 Item 14 Task Force Calls for Solutions to Inadequate Global Insulin Su
80 years after the discovery of insulin, a significant number of people around the world with diabetes die because they don’t have access to the life-saving drug.
Read More »The Alleged Evils of White Bread and Potatoes
Should people really care that they digest potatoes faster than carrots? A carb is a carb is a carb. Yes, say the proponents of the Glycemic Index. No, say other nutritional experts,
Read More »New Screening Could Catch All New Diabetes Cases
Current diabetes screening guidelines are effective, and if followed, could catch virtually all new cases, study findings indicate.
Read More »Issue 170 Item 2 Blood Test Can Predict Diabetes During Pregnancy
A blood test given during the first trimester of pregnancy helps doctors predict which women will develop diabetes later on.
Read More »Issue 170 Item 3 Thiamine Supplementation May Prevent Nephropathy in Diabetics
High-dose thiamine and its lipid-soluble derivative benfotiamine inhibits the development of incipient nephropathy in a rat model of diabetes.
Read More »Issue 170 Item 4 Insulin for Early Type 2 Diabetes?
Start on Insulin not sulfonylurea for better control and save beta cells. Study Suggests It Helps Patients Maintain Metabolic Control. For patients recently diagnosed with adult-onset (i.e., type 2) diabetes, insulin treatment achieves better results than does therapy with oral medication, Swedish researchers report.
Read More »Issue 170 Item 5 Losartan Reduces Sudden Cardiac Death Risk in Diabetics
Losartan may better protect diabetics against cardiac death from arrhythmias than atenolol.
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