November 22nd, 2010
A new study says that the growing prevalence of obesity in children could mean higher obesity rates as adults and a higher future burden of diabetes and heart disease.
Writing in the journal Childhood Obesity‚ Drs. Megan Moriarty–Kelsey and Stephen Daniels of the University of Colorado School of Medicine report that obese children could already have early signs of hypertension‚ high cholesterol‚ and insulin resistance. The researchers’ Read the rest of this entry »
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November 18th, 2010
Diamyd is forging ahead with a Phase III human trial of DiaPrevent, a potentially new treatment that can stop or slow the destruction of insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas of people with Type 1 diabetes.
People with Type 1 diabetes lack the ability to control their blood sugar levels because their immune system mistakenly targets the beta cells, which produce the sugar-controlling hormone insulin, and destroys them. People Read the rest of this entry »
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November 16th, 2010
A phase III study that attempted to prove that angiogenic therapy could prevent amputation in people with severe critical limb ischemia instead failed to show the treatment was superior to placebo.
About 33.20 percent of patients treated with a placebo experienced the primary endpoint of major amputation or death‚ compared with 37.07 percent of patients treated with the recombinant DNA plasmid containing a gene encoding for human acidic Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Fails, Gene, Limb, Loss, Prevent, Therapy
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November 16th, 2010
Individuals with type 2 diabetes can improve their high–sensitivity C–reactive protein (hs–CRP) levels when they are involved in lifestyle behaviors that are also aimed at weight loss and improved glucose control‚ researchers say.
Investigators looked at hs–CRP levels in 1‚759 patients with diabetes who were enrolled in the Look AHEAD study. Subjects were randomly assigned to receive either lifestyle intervention or usual care. Lifestyle Read the rest of this entry »
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