Diabetes is a disease that has become quite common in the last few decades. But what could be the cause for the rise in the number of diabetics in the country? Primarily, the reason could be the sedentary lifestyles that most people lead. In addition to greater consumption of unhealthy foods such as various fast [...]
Diabetes is one topic that seems to be in most of the conversations of today. Be it a doctor, a patient, a parent or a child, talk about diabetes sneaks its way into most conversations. Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death in the word and this trend continues into the future. Fortunately [...]
Diabetes is a disease that has become a major a health issue in the United States of America and in the rest of the world today. According to statistics, 18.8 million people of America are diagnosed with diabetes and another 7 million remain undiagnosed. A leading cause of death in the United States, diabetes has [...]
It has been generally understood that a healthy diet and a strict exercise regime can help diabetics control their blood glucose levels. However, research studies that have been conducted on diabetes and exercise have been less and so it has been difficult to determine how much exercise and also what type would be useful. A [...]
Scientists from the Center for Nutritional Genomics at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have found out how insulin increases fat storage during feeding while another study led to the breakthrough of a new “fasting pathway”, which points the route to a set of diabetes drugs that can bring back unusually high glucose levels in [...]
British researchers have found that diabetes and cholesterol have a gene that controls genes that are found in fat within the human body. The researchers believe that fat plays a vital role in the susceptibility to obesity, diabetes and heart disease, which are collectively known as metabolic disorders. The identification of this regulating gene could [...]
According to Internal Medicine Specialists at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) there has been an alarming upsurge in diabetes in Kumasi, Ghana in recent times. KATH has witnessed around 120 new cases of hypertension and 30 new cases of diabetes on a weekly basis. [...]
The government in the Philippines is currently expanding the production of white corn, which is known to be low in the glycemic index, to boost food security and reduce the incidence of diabetes. According to Dr. Artemio M. Salazar, UPLB-IPB deputy director and National Corn RDE (Research, Development and Extension) Network head, producing white corn [...]
Information gleaned from a case-control study indicated that Pregravid quantities of body mass index (BMI), serum glucose, and prehypertension (also known as hypertension) had independent associations with the third type of diabetes that affects pregnant women i.e., gestational diabetes. Women who had a BMI ?25 and a blood sugar level of 100 to 140 mg/dL [...]
According to researchers, a certain cholesterol lowering drug that is taken in combination with an anti-depressant, taken by over one million people in America, could lead to a spike in blood sugar levels. Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Vanderbilt University believe that the anti-cholesterol drug Pravachol and the [...]
Researchers have reported in two different studies that the genes, which control lipid levels, could lead to an early prediction of diabetes as well as heart disease and atherosclerosis. Joanne E. Curran, PhD, of the Texas Biomedical Research Institute in San Antonio, and colleagues found that in one study, the lipid genes, known as dihydroceramide [...]
