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Diabetes
Non-invasive blood sugar testing is one step closer
Measuring blood sugar when you have diabetes usually involves pricking your finger and using a glucose monitor for the test. While this approach can give people with diabetes vital information about whether they need to take insulin or eat something sugary, it is nevertheless painful and inconvenient.
Expertos insisten en que la alimentación es clave para prevenir las complicaciones de la diabetes
La diabetes es una enfermedad cada vez más prevalente en España en la que, además del tratamiento, llevar unos hábitos de vida y una alimentación saludables también es clave para tener controlada la enfermedad y prevenir las complicaciones asociadas, como la hipoglucemia.
Heart risks of glucose-lowering drugs being overlooked in clinical trials
Why is heart failure not more rigorously assessed in clinical trials of antidiabetes drugs? In a Personal View, published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology journal, Professor John McMurray of The University of Glasgow and colleagues review evidence that hospitalization for heart failure is one of the most common and prognostically important complications of diabetes.
Organ transplant approach might end lifelong drug treatment
Organ-transplant recipients often reject donated organs, but a new, two-pronged strategy developed by UC San Francisco researchers to specifically weaken immune responses that target transplanted tissue has shown promise in controlled experiments on mice.
La mitad de la población española con diabetes tipo 2 tiene más de 65 años
La mitad de la población española con diabetes tipo 2 tiene más de 65 años, mientras que la prevalencia en los mayores de 75 años es cercana al 30 por ciento y en los mayores de 85 alcanza casi el 40 por ciento, según el estudio 'Di@bet.es'.
Insulin-related hypoglycemia, errors related to emergencies, hospitalizations
Elderly patients with diabetes treated with insulin were more likely than younger patients to visit the emergency department (ED) and be hospitalized for insulin-related hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) and insulin-related errors (IHEs).
Critical link identified between obesity and diabetes
It’s by now well established that obesity is a major risk factor for diabetes. But what exactly is it about extra body fat that leads to insulin resistance and blood glucose elevation, the hallmarks of diabetes?
Cada año se registran alrededor de 1.100 casos nuevos de diabetes tipo 1 en menores de 15 años
En España hay 29.000 menores de 15 años con diabetes tipo 1, una patología de la que se registran de forma anual alrededor de 1.100 nuevos casos. El problema, señala Beatriz García Cuartero, pediatra especialista en Endocrinología Infantil y responsable de la Unidad de Diabetes Infantil del centro médico d-médical, es que en los últimos años estamos se observa un adelanto en la edad de inicio de …
Discovery could lead to further advances against diseases tied to obesity and type II diabetes
Researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center have found that blocking the action of a key signaling molecule in the immune system known as Netrin-1 stalls chronic inflammation and insulin resistance tied to obesity and often derived from fatty diets.