Researchers from 12 medical centers in the United States and Canada, who have performed islet transplants in 86 patients with type 1 diabetes, published their results today in the first annual report of the Collaborative Islet Transplant Registry (CITR). The report (www.citregistry.org) analyzes many factors that can affect the outcome of this experimental procedure for people with severe or complicated type 1 diabetes.
Diabetes mellitus is a complex metabolic disorder which has been recognised for thousands of years but which is still only partially understood.
About 40 percent of adults ages 40 to 74 –
or 41 million people – have pre-diabetes, a condition that
raises a person’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes, heart
disease, and stroke. American Indians and Alaska Natives
are 2.3 times as likely to have diabetes as non-Hispanic
whites of similar age.
Caffeine may cause problems with blood sugar control after meals for people with type 2 diabetes, according to a new study.
Diabetics should not just think about the gym when it comes to protecting their hearts, according to a study from Finland. It found that physical activity on the job had as big an effect as leisure-time workouts in reducing death from heart disease among patients with Type 2 diabetes.
Investigators at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that among 1,400 diabetics they studied, those who said they had tried to lose weight in the past year were less likely to die over the next nine years. And it didn’t matter whether they actually shed any pounds, the researchers report in the journal Diabetes Care.
Diabetes is a chronic disease in which the body is unable to produce enough insulin or cannot properly use the insulin it does produce. Insulin, a hormone produced by the pancreas, is released into the blood stream when the blood glucose level rises (after a meal). Insulin allows glucose to move into cells where it can be used for energy production. Glucose is a carbohydrate and is the body’s main fuel.
Obesity can reduce the life expectancy of diabetes patients by up to eight years, British researchers said on Wednesday.
Feeding cereal to your baby too soon may increase the risk that the child later develops Type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disorder that can lead to severe complications later in life.
Babies whose mothers have diabetes have five times the normal risk of suffering from congenital heart problems, British doctors said.