Yearly Archives: 2009

Ophthalmology Journal reports on use of bevacizumab (Avastin), to benefit diabetic patients with macular edema as well as people who develop cystoid macular edema after cataract surgery.

People classified as obese and those with pre-diabetes have raised levels of a protein called SPARC, that can cause tissue scarring.

A study reports that there is a statistically significant relationship between obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) episodes occurring during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and type 2 diabetes.

According to a research abstract, both long and short sleepers are at greater risk for diabetes.

Researchers have discovered a reason why smoking greatly increases the risk of heart disease and stroke. Nicotine promotes insulin resistance, also called prediabetes, which is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease.

In teenagers, laparoscopic gastric banding surgery for treatment of extreme obesity can significantly improve and even reverse the metabolic syndrome.

Researchers have found a way to stop the damage caused by Type 1 diabetes with the combination of insulin and a common vitamin found in most medicine cabinets.

Ontario children are more likely to get diagnosed with diabetes than their American counterparts.

Young adults (18 to 30 years old) with low aerobic fitness levels - as measured by a treadmill test - are two to three times more likely to develop diabetes in 20 years than those who are fit.

The prevalence of overweight in the US population is among the highest in Mexican-American children and adolescents. Culturally appropriate nutritional intervention needed, according to nutrition experts.

Blood sugar control in those animals can be completely restored by returning leptin sensitivity to a single class of neurons in the brain.

Scientists have managed to induce cells from pigs to transform into pluripotent stem cells - cells that, like embryonic stem cells, are capable of developing into any type of cell in the body.

Vibration plate exercise machines may help you lose weight and trim the particularly harmful belly fat between the organs.

People who take cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins after a stroke may be less likely to have another stroke later.

Researchers have shown that very low doses of inhaled carbon monoxide in diabetic mice reverses the condition known as gastroparesis or delayed stomach emptying, a common and painful complication for many diabetic patients.

When leptin sensitivity is restored to a tiny area of POMC neurons in the brain's hypothalamus, the test group deficient in the leptin receptor are cured of severe diabetes - and also spontaneously double their activity levels.