Actually, there is no special food for diabetes patients. However, consuming right foods are necessary to help healing process which has the aim to maintain glucose levels in the blood within normal range. Here are some good foods for diabetes patients. 1. Onion (red onion) The content of onion have the power to ...

There are accumulated data suggestions with some conflicting results in large cohorts that impaired fasting glucose increased cardiovascular events. Impaired fasting glucose itself is part of prediabetes which may increase developing of type 2 diabetes. Apart from all of this, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) has stated that prediabetes is a risk ...

Thiazolidinedione (TZD) or glitazones is medications approved to treat diabetes mellitus type 2 by increase high density liprotein (HDL) cholesterol and decrease trygliceride levels. While several previous studies has suggested some adverse effects such as cardiovascular events, liver inflammation, and failure, and fluid retention, this medications also may increase the risk ...

For people who at risk of diabetes, consume of vitamin D may help them to reduce the incidence of that disease. This is because of vitamin D might plays the role in improving insulin secretion and sensitivity. This conclusion based on observational study from data analysed of Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) presented ...

A mother with gestational diabetes, type 2 diabetes, obesity, or hypertension should be aware that this conditions might lead them to have a child with autism or autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or other development delays, including slower language development. The researchers investigated between this relationship because many mothers in the U.S. ...

Family history with diabetes, gen and environment factors can causes the babies at higher risk of diabetes. According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), an estimated of 20 of 100,000 children under age of 10 in the U.S. are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Meanwhile, previous study has suggested that the ...

Pioglitazone is prescription antidiabetic drug marketed as Actos in U.S. and several brands in other countries from Takeda Pharmaceuticals. It is class of thiazolidinedione (TZD) that can lowering glucose levels in the blood. While several side effects has been addressed to this drug such as the blood glucose may lower than normal ...

As untreated diabetes could harms the subjects to accumulates keeping the ketones and acid in the blood, and finally leading to diabetic coma, therefore, having prediction for diabetes risk could have early treatment to prevent diabetes incidence by reducing blood glucose concentrations to normal levels. While HbA1c or hemoglobin A1c measurement ...

The controversy regarding to vitamin D benefits to prevent diabetes risk still debatable. There are several studies suggested that low level of vitamin D may contribute to the risk of diabetes, but also had some studies suggested that vitamin D no effects to diabetes risk. However, from a new large observational study ...

Several studies has been showed that vitamin D may lowering the risk of diabetes, but others finding also said that there is no relationship between them, including recent reports that said vitamin D had no effects to women's blood levels and their risk of type 2 diabetes. However, a new study ...

The value level of plasma glucose concentration in hemoglobin or glycoslated hemoglabin or HbA1c until today poorly understood regarding to the link of diabetes risk, although several studies has suggested several levels for the association to the diabetes risk. Meanwhile, a new finding from identified of more than 12,000 non-diabetic patients ...

Triglyceride is fat soluble components of living cells that performed by combining glycerine with three molecules of fatty acid. The levels of triglyceride may have varies impact to the health. From hardening of the arteries, heart disease, and stroke risk. Moreover, from recent findings, high triglyceride levels may associated with amputation ...

Caffeine is a substances that had physiological effects from it's organic compound that occurs in coffee, tea, cacao, guarane, mate, and nuts that contain caffeine, such as trees of the cocoa family (cola acuminata and cola nitida). The caffeine content of coffee ranging between 0.75% to 1.5% from coffee's weight. It ...

Rosiglitazone is diabetes drug medication from pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) under brand name Avandia that have big amount of sales yearly (about $3 billion a year) but down in further due to several cases of adverse effects, such as heart-related disease, particularly with myocardial infarctiuon (MI). This drug has been removed ...

As previous studies remains unclear regarding to cancer risk from insuline glargine (marketed as Lantus from Sanofi-Aventis) as diabetes treatment to help control the blood sugar levels, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that they still evaluate and review for that risk. In July 2009, the FDA issued a ...

As an impact from big and worst drug scandal in France of diabetic and weigh loss drug, Mediator, which were leading to 500 recorded death and thousand hospitalized caused the effects of its active ingredients, benfluorex, the France government promise to accelerates the safety checks on dozens of medicines and ...

Another benefits of whole grain foods showed that with three daily serving may reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases. According to the current researchers the effect of whole grain foods consumption might reduce systolic blood pressure (BP), reduce pulse pressure, and decrease concentration of cholesterol. This findings based on their randomized controlled ...

Although the mechanism of increased erythropoietin (EPO) in dialysis patients with 25-OH vitamin D deficiency linked to increased risk of mortality remain unclear, however, low doses of EPO has been dramatically help in correcting anemia associated with dialysis. In a pilot study of 81 vitamin D-deficient dialysis patients, the researchers found ...

Until recently, high-quality study to investigate how importance of exercising and fitness in individuals with diabetes or to prevent type 2 diabetes mellitus were lacking of strong evidence. But, in the new guidelines issued together by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) has been ...

Diabetes is one of the fastest growing disease in the United States. It is estimated affects about 26 million Americans. According to health insurer UnitedHealth Group Inc, another 67 million Americans are estimated to have prediabetes, with more than 60 million unaware that they have the condition. In the report that released ...

A new analysis results from five years follow-up of diabetic men with erectile dysfunction (ED) at baseline was associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) events, coronary heart disease (CHD) risk, and cerebrovascular disease or strokes. According to lead investigator of Preterax and Diamicron Modified-Release Controlled Evaluation (ADVANCE) trial, Dr G David Batty ...

The connection between blood pressure level in type 2 diabetes patients to the risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) events are remain unclear. However, in the study that investigate the relationship between systolic blood pressure (BP) and/or diastolic BP to CVD events suggested that in type 2 diabetes patients with diastolic BP ...

Benfluorex is appetite suppressant and an agent that used to treat abnormal elevated levels of lipids and lipoprotein in the blood. As diabetes medication, benfluorex claimed that based on clinical studies may improve glycemic control and decrease insulin resistance in people with type 2 diabetes. But now, according to investigators from French ...

In the study known as the Italian Diabetes and Exercise Study (IDES), the researchers said that people with diabetes mellitus can take benefits from structured and supervised program of exercising. They said that this kind of exercising such as twice-weekly, resistance training, facility-based regimen that included aerobic exercise, and counseling ...

A suggestion link between leading cause of blindness in adults and vitamin D deficiency has been showed from patients with diabetic retinopathy (particularly the proliferative type). The findings said that such patients are more likely to have insufficient serum vitamin D levels than people without diabetes. The researchers stratified 221 subjects into ...

A new randomized controlled trial reported that the need for insulin in patients with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) might be reduced, also improving capillary glycemic control via resistance exercise (RE) program. The study itself had a purpose to assess the effect of an RE program using an elastic band on insulin ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has decided that antidiabetic drug rosiglitazone (marketed as Avandia from GlaxoSmithKline) under restricted access but remain available due to their risk of cardiovascular adverse effects. However, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended all rosiglitazone-containing in the EU (marketed as Avandia, Avandament, and Avaglim) ...

According to current findings, few people realize that breastfeeding also reduce mother' risk of developing type 2 diabetes later in life. Moreover, even had breast-fed an infant for less than 1 month, the mother still had increased the risk of type 2 diabetes. This finding recently published in the September issue ...

Although glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) test performance for diagnosis and prognosis of diabetes is uncertain, however, according to new results of population-based analyses, both fasting glucose and HbA1c levels may be useful to diagnose the prevalent of diabetes and predict the incident of diabetes. According to the authors of the study, their ...

Published in August 25 in Neurology, the study author from the Department of Neuropathology at Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, Kensuke Sasaki, MD, PhD, said that diabetes-related factors, particularly of insulin resistance was significant associated with the formation of neuritic plaques pathology [a type of Alzheimer's disease pathologic outcome] than to ...