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Gestational Diabetes

Friday, June 4th, 2010

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Temporary resistance to insulin during pregnancy. The so-called gestational diabetes occurring during pregnancy at a rate of 1% to 14% of patients, and almost always debut between 24 and 28 weeks of pregnancy.

Sometimes it may persist after birth and is associated with increased maternal disorders (hypertension or high blood pressure, vaginal infections and urinary tract, premature delivery and caesarean) and serious harm to the baby (macrosomia fetal death, ie overgrowth of the product because it is exposed to more glucose than usual this is because it stimulates your pancreas secretes insulin abundance increases their development, which can lead to injury at the time of passing through the birth canal .)

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Combination Therapy of Insulin and Pioglitazone

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

insulin therapy pioglitazoneSince 2007 in Germany is going a combined therapy of the drug pioglitazone with insulin. First interim analysis was recently published. These indicate that the combination in the future is both effective and safe.

The type 2 diabetes
Type-2 diabetes have a resistance of body cells to the biological effects of insulin. Once this so-called insulin resistance is too strong, does the injected insulin in a diabetes therapy is not effective enough. Be increased in these cases, the insulin sensitivity by insulin sensitizers. These sensitizers are firstly used for type-2 diabetes with marked insulin resistance, ie, in patients in whom insulin alone is insufficient. On the other hand in diabetic patients who are not the standard combination of insulin and metformin because of contraindications or intolerance can take.

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Diabetes Type 2 Treated by Insulin or Tablet?

Monday, May 24th, 2010

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In Germany, a type-2 diabetes is often treated with tablets. These are relatively easy to handle and do not require intensive training as they are common for insulin users. Nevertheless, type-2 diabetes have a relatively high risk for atherosclerosis and heart disease. A new study has dealt with the question of which treatment option for type 2 diabetes cheap.

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Genes for Type 2 Diabetes Discovered

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

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Type 2 diabetes and other common illnesses are seen in a new light after researchers a genome map that shows which genes are found turned on or off to create ‘too. “Researchers from Barcelona and the University of North Carolina, whose realization in the pancreatic islet cells cells.Since The pancreas produces insulin, the understanding of the genes behind the organ is important to stabilize blood sugar levels.

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Talking About Diabetes Meilitus

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

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It is a disorder in the metabolism of carbohydrates, fats and proteins caused by a deficiency of insulin, which can be absolute or relative. For its part, insulin is a hormone produced by the beta cells of pancreas to control blood sugar (blood glucose levels).
Insulin deficiency causes impairment in the ability of tissues to utilize nutrients, resulting in increased blood glucose (hyperglycaemia).

Normally, when glucose exceeds 110 mg / dl is secreted insulin and low blood sugar to normal (80-110 mg / dl). When the blood sugar falls below 60 mg / dl, normal production slows insulin, which limits the use of glucose by the tissues and allows increased blood glucose to normal.

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Artificial Pancreas For People With Type 1 Diabetes

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

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The first human trials of the latest design of an artificial pancreas for people with type 1 diabetes found that the drive works without causing low blood sugar (hypoglycemia).
In the best case, this type of automated device finally released people with type 1 diabetes need injections that many each day and the constant need to check levels of blood sugar and monitor their food as appropriate.

The device, produced through a collaboration of experts from Boston University, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School has two hormones that are deficient among Type 1 diabetic, insulin, which prevents levels blood sugar get too high after a meal, and glucagon, a hormone that occurs naturally that prevents blood sugar levels fall too far.

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Discover Diabetes Treated by Gastric Surgery

Monday, March 8th, 2010

diabetic treatmentResearchers at the National University Hospital in Taiwan today reported new diabetes treatments through bypass surgery and gastric narrowing.

The Taiwanese doctors presented at a press conference the positive results of therapy in 60 cases of operated diabetic gastric surgery over a year ago.

Diabetes is really a gastrointestinal disease, resulting from problems with the gastrointestinal hormones that influence insulin production, so it can be treated with gastric surgery,” said a spokesman for the doctors, Li Wei-jie.

In an experiment with 60 patients, average age 45 years, found that one year after gastric bypass surgery, 93.3 percent had normal blood sugar level and in the case of gastric narrowing, the proportion was 46.7 percent.

Researchers at the Taiwan Normal University said that with current therapies and medication, a year, only 30 percent of patients achieved a normal level of sugar.

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Insulin Resistance and Diabetes

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

insulin resistanceTo understand insulin resistance, it helps to understand a little about how insulin works and its role in the body. Insulin is an essential hormone created in the pancreas, which is involved in the metabolism of sugars in the body. Without it, we can not turn the food we eat into usable energy.

When we eat something, a lot of digested food is converted into glucose, the main energy source of the body. The pancreas then responds to blood sugar levels by secreting insulin in increasing the flow of blood. Most cells in your body contain insulin receptors that help insulin bind to the cell. Once insulin binds to the cell, activate other receptor sites, allowing glucose to enter the cell and provide energy for life.

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Dolphin Key of Diabetes Type 2

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

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Dolphins have a mechanism that allows them to control levels of blood sugar. A study of dolphins revealed genetic clues that could help scientists find new treatments for type 2 diabetes in humans.

Scientists at the National Marine Mammal Foundation of America (NMMF) found that the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) is resistant to insulin, the hormone that regulates glucose levels in the blood-like people suffering type 2 diabetes .

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Type 1 Diabetes Prevented

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

type 1 diabetes babies childrenA new vaccine to protect children with low glucose tolerance before an impending type 1 diabetes. Whether this is really possible, is now finally prove, inter alia, a study of the Technical University of Munich.

A type-1 diabetes develops when the immune system attacks a bad reaction in one’s own pancreas and destroys the insulin-producing cells. Due to an inflammatory reaction, which takes different lengths, the pancreas can no longer fulfill their function and diabetes becomes apparent. The onset of diabetes may last, depending on the injury, so that even ill babies or adults only. How it but at the slip of the immune system, so the exact cause of diabetes, occurs remains unclear.

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