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Study Reveals Obesity-Related Trigger That can Lead to Diabetes

January 21, 2023 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

A new study at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis may help explain how excess weight can contribute to diabetes and may provide researchers with a target to help prevent or delay diabetes in some of those at risk. The findings suggest that many people with elevated levels of insulin -- an early marker of diabetes risk -- also have defects in an enzyme … [Read more...]

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Widespread Metabolic Dysregulation in Different Organs in Type 2 Diabetes

October 13, 2022 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

Using state of the art techniques, researchers from Uppsala University have shown that the metabolism in patients with type 2 diabetes and prediabetes was much more disturbed than previously known, and that it varied between organs and severity of the disease. The study is a collaboration with e.g. Copenhagen University and AstraZeneca and it has been published in the journal … [Read more...]

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Muscle Models Mimic Diabetes, Inform Personalized Medicine

September 24, 2022 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

Abnormally high blood sugar (glucose) levels can result in Type 2 diabetes when things go awry with the body's skeletal muscle, which plays a key role in regulating glucose. Scientists are using in vitro (in a dish) skeletal muscle engineering to gain a better understanding of the complex genetic and environmental factors underlying diabetes. This involves putting lab-grown, … [Read more...]

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Boost in Rates of Type 2 Diabetes Among Children During COVID-19 Pandemic

August 26, 2022 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

In a multi-site study of medical records, researchers at Johns Hopkins Children's Center and across the United States say they have documented a steep rise in type 2 diabetes among children during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a report on the findings, published Aug. 17 in The Journal of Pediatrics, the investigators note it is unclear whether the virus infection itself was a … [Read more...]

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New Research to Reduce Harm of Gestational Diabetes

August 26, 2022 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

A study of over 4,000 pregnant New Zealand women suggests the country can improve babies' health and reduce medical risks for mums by changing how gestational diabetes is diagnosed. The study assessed the value of lowering the blood-sugar threshold for diagnosis. The University of Auckland researchers, based at the Liggins Institute, tested the blood-sugar level currently … [Read more...]

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Focus on Beta Cells Could be key to Preventing Type 1 diabetes

July 9, 2022 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

The study, published today in Cell Reports, describes how the researchers used genetic tools to knock out or delete a gene called Alox15 in mice that are genetically predisposed to developing type 1 diabetes. This gene produces an enzyme called 12/15-Lipoxygenase, which is known to be involved in processes that produce inflammation in beta cells. Deleting Alox15 in these mice … [Read more...]

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Diabetes May Weaken Teeth and Promote Tooth Decay

June 6, 2022 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

People with both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are prone to tooth decay, and a new study from Rutgers may explain why: reduced strength and durability of enamel and dentin, the hard substance under enamel that gives structure to teeth. Researchers induced Type 1 diabetes in 35 mice and used a Vickers microhardness tester to compare their teeth with those of 35 healthy … [Read more...]

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Target Protein For Diabetes Drug Linked to Reduced Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease

June 6, 2022 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

Mechanisms associated with a particular diabetes drug can also help to protect against Alzheimer's disease, a study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and published in Neurology reports. The results indicate that the drug's target protein can be an interesting candidate for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's disease is becoming increasingly … [Read more...]

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Tracking Sleep With a Self-Powering Smart Pillow

June 6, 2022 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

The human body needs sleep as much as it needs food and water. Yet many people fail to get enough, causing both mind and body to suffer. People who struggle for shut-eye could benefit from monitoring their sleep, but they have limited options for doing so. In a new study in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, one team describes a potential solution: a self-powering smart … [Read more...]

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A Healthy Lifestyle Helps to Prevent Gestational Diabetes in those at highest genetic risk

May 14, 2022 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

Researchers have developed a genetic-risk score for identifying individuals who would benefit the most from lifestyle counselling to prevent gestational and postpartum diabetes. Gestational diabetes is the most common health-related challenge during pregnancy. Today, it is diagnosed in every fifth expectant mother in Finland. Gestational diabetes has a significant impact on … [Read more...]

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Active Brown Adipose Tissue Protects Against ‘Pre-Prediabetes’

May 14, 2022 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

Brown fat is a type of fat that is activated when a person gets cold, producing heat to warm the body. The presence of brown fat was initially recognized on oncologic FDG PET/CT scans, which are now the most commonly used technique for the in vivo detection of brown fat. Studies using PET with FDG and/or other fatty-acid tracers have demonstrated that brown fat consumes glucose … [Read more...]

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Huge Study of Diverse Populations Advances Understanding of type 2 Diabetes

May 14, 2022 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

Ongoing worldwide research of diverse populations by an international team of scientists, including a University of Massachusetts Amherst genetic epidemiologist, has shed important new light on how genes contribute to type 2 diabetes. The study was published Thursday, May 12, in Nature Genetics. "Our findings matter because we're moving toward using genetic scores to weigh … [Read more...]

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Exposure to a Group of Widely used ‘Forever Chemicals’ may Increase Diabetes Risk in Middle-Aged Women

April 20, 2022 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

PFAS are a group of more than 4,700 synthetic chemicals, first developed in the 1940s and which are widely used in industry as well as in consumer products such as non-stick cookware, water and stain-repellent coatings, food packaging, carpeting, firefighting foam, and even cosmetics. Their molecular structure is based on a linked chain of carbon atoms with one or more fluorine … [Read more...]

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Treatment Prevents Hypoglycemia in Children with Hyperinsulinism

April 20, 2022 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

There are currently very few medical treatments for HI, and those treatments are of limited effectiveness while also associated with significant side effects," said senior study author Diva D. De León-Crutchlow, MD, Chief of the Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes and Director of the Congenital Hyperinsulinism Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "We are very … [Read more...]

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Discovery could Hold the Key to Alleviating Metabolic Disease

January 25, 2022 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

Scientists have long sought to find out how some diseases can have symptoms restricted to just one tissue when they are caused by a single faulty protein found throughout the body. Familial Partial Lipodystrophy type 2 (FPLD2) is a rare disorder causing diabetes, loss of fat in the arms and legs and over development of muscles, yet the faulty protein, lamin A, is found in … [Read more...]

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People With High-Risk Prediabetes Benefit From Intensive lifestyle Intervention

December 30, 2021 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

Intensive lifestyle intervention with plenty of exercise helps people with prediabetes improve their blood glucose levels over a period of years and thus delay or even prevent type 2 diabetes. In particular, individuals with prediabetes at highest risk benefited from intensive lifestyle intervention. This is shown by the evaluation of the Prediabetes Lifestyle Intervention … [Read more...]

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New Biomarkers may Detect Early Eye Changes that can lead to Diabetes-Related Blindness

August 23, 2021 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

New biomarkers found in the eyes could unlock the key to helping manage diabetic retinopathy, and perhaps even diabetes, according to new research conducted at the Indiana University School of Optometry. During its early stages, diabetes can affect the eyes before the changes are detectable with a regular clinical examination. However, new retinal research has found that … [Read more...]

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New Study Reveals that Children of Mothers with Diabetes During Pregnancy have an Increased Risk of Eye Problems

August 23, 2021 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

A new study published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes [EASD]) finds that mothers who have diabetes before or during their pregnancy are more likely to have children who go on to develop eye problems. The research is by Dr Jiangbo Du, State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, … [Read more...]

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Babies at Risk for Diabetes may have Microbiota Restored

July 29, 2021 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

Newborns at risk for Type 1 diabetes because they were given antibiotics may have their gut microorganisms restored with a maternal fecal transplant, according to a Rutgers study. The study, which involved genetic analysis of mice, appears in the journal Cell Host & Microbe. The findings suggest that newborns at risk for Type 1 diabetes because their microbiome -- the … [Read more...]

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A Promising New Pathway to Treating Type 2 Diabetes

July 10, 2021 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

A promising new pathway to treating type 2 diabetes ++diabetes This year marks the 100th anniversary of the discovery of insulin, a scientific breakthrough that transformed Type 1 diabetes, once known as juvenile diabetes or insulin-dependent diabetes, from a terminal disease into a manageable condition. Today, Type 2 diabetes is 24 times more prevalent than Type 1. The … [Read more...]

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‘Prescription’ to Sit Less, Move more Advised for Mildly High Blood Pressure and Cholesterol

June 10, 2021 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

A "prescription" to sit less and move more is the optimal first treatment choice for reducing mild to moderately elevated blood pressure and blood cholesterol in otherwise healthy adults, according to the new American Heart Association scientific statement published today in the American Heart Association's journal Hypertension. "The current American Heart Association … [Read more...]

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Research Advances One Step Closer to Stem Cell Therapy for Type 1 Diabetes

June 10, 2021 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

Type 1 diabetes, which arises when the pancreas doesn't create enough insulin to control levels of glucose in the blood, is a disease that currently has no cure and is difficult for most patients to manage. Scientists at the Salk Institute are developing a promising approach for treating it: using stem cells to create insulin-producing cells (called beta cells) that could … [Read more...]

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Muscle Gene Linked to Type 2 Diabetes

April 29, 2021 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

People with type 2 diabetes tend to have poorer muscle function than others. Now a research team at Lund University in Sweden has discovered that in type 2 diabetes, a specific gene is of great importance for the ability of muscle stem cells to create new mature muscle cells. The findings are published in Nature Communications. "In people with type 2 diabetes, the VPS39 gene … [Read more...]

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Swapping alpha cells for beta cells to treat diabetes

March 4, 2021 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

Blocking cell receptors for glucagon, the counter-hormone to insulin, cured mouse models of diabetes by converting glucagon-producing cells into insulin producers instead, a team led by UT Southwestern reports in a new study. The findings, published online in PNAS, could offer a new way to treat both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes in people. More than 34 million Americans have … [Read more...]

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Dental experts discover biological imbalance is the link between gum and kidney disease

January 7, 2021 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

An imbalance of the body's oxygen producing free radicals and its antioxidant cells could be the reason why gum disease and chronic kidney disease affect each other, a new study led by the University of Birmingham has found. Periodontitis -- or gum disease -- is a common, inflammatory disease which causes bleeding gums, wobbly or drifting teeth and can eventually result in … [Read more...]

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Routine eye scans may give clues to cognitive decline in diabetes

January 7, 2021 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

As they age, people with diabetes are more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease and other cognitive disorders. Scientists at Joslin Diabetes Center now have shown that routine eye imaging can identify changes in the retina that may be associated with cognitive disorders in older people with type 1 diabetes. These results may open up a relatively easy method for early … [Read more...]

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Researchers Urge Priority Vaccination for Individuals with Diabetes

December 12, 2020 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers have discovered individuals with type 1 and type 2 diabetes infected with COVID-19 are three times more likely to have a severe illness or require hospitalization compared with people without diabetes. Because of this amplified impact, they are urging policymakers to prioritize these individuals for COVID-19 vaccination. … [Read more...]

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Study Connects Diabetes, Air Pollution to Interstitial Lung Disease

December 12, 2020 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

People with pre-diabetes or diabetes who live in ozone-polluted areas may have an increased risk for an irreversible disease with a high mortality rate. A new study published in the Environmental Health Perspectives connects insulin resistance and repetitive ozone exposure to the development of interstitial lung disease. "Our findings are especially important today as … [Read more...]

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Molecular Processes in Kidney Cells discovered that attract and feed COVID-19

October 27, 2020 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

Although the lungs are a common target for COVID-19's cytokine storm, so are the kidneys, making the 1 in 4 U.S. adults with diabetes resulting in diabetic kidney disease at increased risk for virus mortality. Why are the kidneys so attractive to the coronavirus? Recently published in Kidney International, a national research team made up of kidney clinicians, … [Read more...]

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How changing the stem cell response to inflammation may reverse periodontal disease

October 5, 2020 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

Periodontal disease, also known as gum disease, is a serious infection that affects nearly 50 percent of Americans aged 30 years and older. If left unchecked, periodontal disease can destroy the jawbone and lead to tooth loss. The disease is also associated with higher risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The current treatment for periodontal disease involves … [Read more...]

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