New research suggests that the failure of beta cells in Type 2 diabetics occurs much earlier and more swiftly than previously thought, according to an article from Diabetes in Control. Beta cells are responsible for producing insulin, the hormone responsible for regulating sugar levels in the blood.
The findings, researchers say, indicate that the current approach to treating Type 2 diabetes in inadequate. In people with Type 2 diabetes, (more…)
Breast–feeding for less than one month has been linked to an increased risk for type 2 diabetes in a study reported in the American Journal of Medicine.
The study looked at the associations between duration‚ exclusivity, and consistency of lactation with the risk for type 2 diabetes in a cohort of 2‚233 women‚ aged 40 to 78 years. Researchers controlled for age‚ parity‚ race‚ education‚ hysterectomy‚ physical activity‚ (more…)
Newly published research shows Avandia poses roughly the same heart-attack risk as competing drug Actos, contradicting earlier studies suggesting Avandia was more dangerous.
The new study, published this week in the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, may have arrived at a different conclusion in part because its subjects may have been younger and healthier than in previous studies, says study author Debra (more…)
In a joint study conducted by Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) and a research group at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, researchers have now discovered that lipid peroxides* play a specific physiological role in the cell. Prior to this study, scientists had already established that accumulation of lipid peroxides* indicate cell stress. Lipid peroxides have further been (more…)
A new UCLA study suggests that disparities in cardiovascular disease risk in the United States are due less to race or ethnicity than to socioeconomic status.
In the study, published in the August issue of the journal Annals of Epidemiology , researchers from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and colleagues found that there are large differences in risk by socioeconomic status within racial and ethnic (more…)