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Lifelong condition may join list of various medical ailments for which type 1 patients are at an increased risk… A population-based cohort study published using data from The Health Improvement Network (THIN) was evaluated comparing records from 303,394 type 1 diabetes patients aged 0-89 years old with 303,872 random controls …

Accessible fruit offers variety of health benefits…. Incorporating papaya into your diet can have many possible health benefits. Studies suggest that consuming papaya decreases the risk of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease as well as promotes healthy skin and hair, increases energy and decreases overall weight. Papaya is very accessible …

Possibly a new option for reducing triglyceride levels and risk of developing insulin resistance….

When mice are given IL-35, type 1 diabetes is either reversed or completely cured as blood glucose returned to normal… Type 1 diabetes is considered an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks insulin-producing beta pancreatic cells. To better understand how to treat type 1 diabetes, Swedish researchers injected …

Retrospective cases showed that some patients treated with canagliflozin had severe diabetes ketoacidosis… The Food Drug Administration (FDA) had previously reported that Invokana® (canagliflozin) had cases of diabetes ketoacidosis (DKA) in type 2 diabetes; however, a recent study done by Janssen Research & Development shows that patients who were taking …

An African-American male was diagnosed with heart failure at age 38 due to severe hypertension. At age 40, patient weighed 166lbs and he had normal glucose tolerance test. Three years later, patient weighed 275 lbs due to unknown reason and he was diagnosed with type I diabetes based on a …

In addition to lifestyle, a new study suggests birthweight may play a role in a person’s risk for developing type 2 diabetes… A recent Harvard study was published in BMJ involving nearly 150,000 men and women without diabetes at baseline who were followed for 20-30 years. Researchers prospectively looked at …

Increased risk for prostate and pancreatic cancer associated with use of drug… A recent study published in JAMA looked at long-term data from nearly 200,000 diabetes patients to revisit the debate of whether pioglitazone significantly increases the risk of bladder cancer in patients or not. In the process, researchers also …

ReShape Dual Balloon helping patients to achieve life-changing weight loss without surgery… A new non-surgical weight loss option is now available. The FDA has approved ReShape Integrated Dual Balloon System which is the first non-surgical weight loss procedure for people with mild-to-moderate obesity. ReShape is a dual balloon mounted on …

Coffee may play a role in decreasing inflammation and thus have an association with lower diabetes incidences… A recent study sought to investigate any associations between coffee drinking, diabetes development and measured inflammatory and oxidative biomarkers. Scientists have suggested there is an inflammatory process involved in the development of type …