Sentences with phrase «for diabetes researchers»

Targeting enzymes like LMPTP has long been a goal for diabetes researchers, says Daniel Drucker of the Lunenfeld - Tanenbaum Research Institute in Toronto, Canada.

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But researchers at the University of Aberdeen found that a treatment originally designed for fighting cancer and diabetes could melt away fatty arterial plaque with a single dosing and reverse the effects of atherosclerosis, which can lead to multiple heart problems.

Researchers have been exploring the connection between Alzheimer's and diabetes for years.

They began the class believing they were selling an open data and software platform for people with Type 1 Diabetes into a multi-sided market comprised of patients, providers, device makers, app builders and researchers.

This in vitro study led the researchers to conclude that quinoa, kañiwa, and other traditional crops from the Peruvian Andes have potential in developing effective dietary strategies for managing type 2 diabetes and associated hypertension.

The researchers were surprised with the findings: «This was a major surprise for us — that soybean oil is causing more obesity and diabetes than fructose — especially when you see headlines everyday about the potential role of sugar consumption in the current obesity epidemic.

«The researchers from Deakin University calling for the ban claim BPA can lead to diabetes and obesity.

A new study by USC and University of Oxford researchers indicates that large amounts of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) found in national food supplies across the world may be one explanation for the rising global epidemic of Type 2 diabetes and resulting higher health care costs.

After adjusting the results for some confounds — such as differences in sociodemographics and lifestyles — the researchers concluded that Waldorf graduates did not differ from the general population in most examined diseases, including high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer or diabetes.

The researchers also found a higher risk for postpartum depression among the women who had gestational diabetes.

Researchers involved in the study selected 1,010 women who with gestational diabetes during their pregnancies and monitored them for two years after the birth.

To answer their question, the researchers followed 4,640 participants from the NHLBI - funded Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes (ACCORD) Lipid Study for five years after the conclusion of the trial in 2009.

These persons, the researchers found, were up to five times at greater risk for developing diabetes than people with levels above 50 ng / ml.

A new Norwegian diet intervention study (FATFUNC), performed by researchers at the KG Jebsen center for diabetes research at the University of Bergen, raises questions regarding the validity of a diet hypothesis that has dominated for more than half a century: that dietary fat and particularly saturated fat is unhealthy for most people.

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have identified a mutation in a fat - storage gene that appears to increase the risk for type 2 diabetes and other metabolic disorders, according to a study published online in the New England Journal of Medicine.

To investigate, researchers led by Roberto Pisoni, MD (Medical University of South Carolina) analyzed information on 56 patients with diabetes and CKD who had undergone screening for obstructive sleep apnea through the use of a questionnaire.

The researchers constructed a signature for type 2 diabetes based on 50 genes, then used publically available expression datasets to screen 3,852 compounds for drugs that potentially reverse disease.

The researchers therefore believe that the cognitive problems can be explained to a high degree by the risk factors that are common to patients with different types of heart complaint, for example diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.

«The elegant studies here provide proof of concept that targeting LMPTP in the liver improves glucose control and liver insulin signalling in animals,» says Daniel Drucker of the Lunenfeld - Tanenbaum Research Institute in Toronto, Canada, who says that targeting enzymes like LMPTP has long been a goal for researchers tackling diabetes.

Researchers at New York University College of Dentistry (NYU Dentistry) have described a new target that may open the door to developing therapies for preventing bone fractures in people with type 2 diabetes.

The researchers add that this information will be relevant to the design of clinical trials of lipid - modifying agents, which should carefully monitor participants for dysglycemia and the incidence of diabetes.

Considering the urgency of addressing the current diabetes and obesity epidemics, their article is also a call to action for researchers and health systems to develop successful interventions to increase physical activity among women of reproductive age.»

The results were the same after researchers adjusted for other factors that could increase the risk of stroke, such as high cholesterol, diabetes and smoking.

The association between the two conditions remained significant even when researchers adjusted for other risk factors, including age, gender, race, body mass index, physical activity, history of alcohol use and smoking, and history of other conditions like myocardial infarction, stroke and diabetes mellitus.

Rice University researchers have established a metabolic connection between the brain's executive function responsible for inhibition and type 2 diabetes.

Researchers have suspected a link between anxiety and poor health, including diabetes, for many years but none have detailed the biological pathway responsible, said lead author Kyle Murdock, a postdoctoral research fellow in psychology.

Earlier this month, a network of researchers supported by the National Eye Institute (NEI) found that the drug Lucentis (ranibizumab) can be highly effective for treating proliferative diabetic retinopathy, an eye disease that can occur as a complication of diabetes.

Diabetes researchers are considering various replacements for insulin injections: Transplanting new pancreatic islet cells that make insulin, coaxing the patient's own islets to regenerate, or treating diabetics early in the disease with immune - suppressing therapies to prevent their body from destroying the rest of their pancreatic islets.

To evaluate the A1c test's ability to screen for diabetes in high - risk patients, the researchers analyzed the medical history of 10,201 patients who were given the test in central Israel between 2002 and 2005.

The new method of estimating blood sugar could also help researchers evaluate new therapies for diabetes in clinical trials, he noted.

Dogs and cats now suffer from obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer and more, just like humans, and researchers are now investigating common risk factors for pets and owners

The results were the same when researchers adjusted for other factors that could affect brain volume, such as age, education and having diabetes or high blood pressure.

Researchers have reported a significant step toward finding a cure for diabetes.

Franco is also collaborating with a researcher who came to his lab seeking help in refining his mouse models for diabetes.

Researchers already envision transplanting ready - made embryonic stem cells back into people, providing cures for a huge range of diseases, from diabetes to paralysis to Alzheimer's.

After adjusting for other factors that could affect the risk of dementia, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, depression and alcohol abuse, researchers determined that veterans with TBI were 60 percent more likely to develop dementia than those without TBI.

«Researchers widely acknowledge that receiving inadequate sleep is a serious problem and can potentially contribute to a variety of health complications, such as a weakened immune system or an increased risk for obesity and diabetes,» says Dr. Laura Scheinfeldt, lead author on the paper and a research scientist at Coriell.

«Based on everything we know, there's no substitute for these exercise programs when it comes to delaying the aging process,» said study senior author Sreekumaran Nair, a medical doctor and diabetes researcher at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

Researchers should be able to cultivate iPS cells into cell types they want to study — for example, dopamine neurons in the case of Parkinson's or pancreatic cells for diabetes — and find out where and how they go wrong.

This difference was independent of other heart disease risk factors including age, gender, family history, education level, body mass index, smoking habits, hypertension, diabetes and high cholesterol, all of which the researchers adjusted for in their analysis.

Researchers found that the relatively small weight loss markedly lowered patients» risk for diabetes and cardiovascular disease and improved metabolic function in liver, fat and muscle tissue.

Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas have developed a wearable diagnostic biosensor that can detect three interconnected, diabetes - related compounds — cortisol, glucose and interleukin - 6 — in perspired sweat for up to a week without loss of signal integrity.

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have, for the first time, described the sequence of early cellular responses to a high - fat diet, one that can result in obesity - induced insulin resistance and diabetes.

For the future, the researchers also envisage the use of Glucolight in other fields, such as diabetes.

Ann Wolf, executive director of the diabetes Camp Hertko Hollow, who worked with researchers on the field study, is interested in adding a permanent digital display for next summer's camp.

Researchers trying to better understand and treat blood - sugar disorders such as type 2 diabetes can look for new clues in odd little fish that dwell in Mexican caves.

British newspapers reported this weekend that Ian Wilmut, the University of Edinburgh biologist who led the team that in 1997 cloned Dolly the sheep, is getting out of the cloning business in light of the new findings, which seem to offer researchers a likely new source of stem cell lines for basic research that could one day lead to new treatments and perhaps cures for spinal injuries, diabetes and debilitating disorders such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease.

«We've known for over a decade that patients with diabetes are at a much higher risk of suffering a heart attack than those who don't have diabetes,» said Viet Le, PA - C, a researcher for the Intermountain Heart Institute at Intermountain Medical Center.

Researchers examined adverse outcomes for patients diagnosed and treated for diabetes compared to those who met the criteria for diabetes, but weren't diagnosed.

However, for decades researchers and physicians have been faced with a conundrum: not all who are obese or resistant to insulin develop type 2 diabetes.