Sentences with phrase «of diabetes medicine»

The report is produced by a working group of 17 international health experts, including Professor Melanie Davies who is Professor of Diabetes Medicine at the University and an Honorary Consultant Diabetologist at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK.

Professor Melanie Davies, Director of the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, UK, Professor of Diabetes Medicine at the University of Leicester and a co-author of the study, said: «Lack of physical activity and being overweight are two risk factors associated with type 2 diabetes.

She is already studying how the Maya's unique genetic profile may speed up the work of certain enzymes, leading to rapid elimination of diabetes medicines from their bodies.

Not exact matches

• Zealand Pharma, a Denmark - based biotech focused on peptide - based medicines for type 2 diabetes, has filed for an IPO of American Depository Shares.

The world's largest maker of diabetes drugs said on Tuesday it would aim to develop medicines that treat obesity - a major cause of diabetes - at least as effectively as surgery.

They can happen to anyone, but they occur more often in older people, obese people, and those with type 2 diabetes, and they tend to crop up where skin rubs against skin, like the armpits, groin, and folds of the neck, according to the US National Library of Medicine (NLM).

The June 14, 2010 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine contains the results of a Harvard study which shows that five or more servings of white rice per week increases your risk of developing type 2 diabetes, but two servings of brown rice per week decreases your risk.

It is not medicine and not supposed to take the place of any med's you take - but it is a pleasant snack - Tastes like figs - somewhat crunchy and I found it to be good when I just want a little something to keep myself from the more damaging foods like chips - I can't tell you if it works or not - only because that would take a blood test and also I don't have diabetes - just elevated sugar at times of stress.

Various systems of traditional medicine use pumpkin to prevent and ease symptoms of diabetes, reduce symptoms of hypertension, prevent tumors, boost the immune system, provide antibacterial support to the stomach, reduce serum cholesterol levels, and provide anti-inflammatory support.

Interview with Jason Fung, chief of the department of medicine at Scarborough General Hospital on the board of directors of Low Carb Diabetes Association and the scientific editor of the Journal of Insulin Resistance, chatting about why calorie counting doesn't work, how to lower insulin levels, and intermittent fasting to encourage fat burning.

Disease prevention (i.e. heart disease, diabetes, etc.) has become one of the main tenets in primary care medicine but we are just beginning to scratch the surface with our young athletes.

What if this same medicine could also decrease your baby's chance of developing diabetes, obesity and some cancers?

Through the Erie County Expanded Syringe Access Program (ESAP), the Erie County Department of Health, along with representatives from the fields of Diabetes, HIV / AIDS, business, sanitation, law enforcement, pharmacy, spiritual, government, medicine and lay persons, created a partnership to safely dispose of used needles, syringes & lancets free of charge.

An epidemiological study conducted by researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Seoul National University suggests that persons deficient in vitamin D may be at much greater risk of developing diabetes.

«We found that participants with blood levels of 25 - hydroxyvitamin D that were above 30 ng / ml had one - third of the risk of diabetes and those with levels above 50 ng / ml had one - fifth of the risk of developing diabetes,» said first author Sue K. Park, MD, in the Department of Preventive Medicine at Seoul National University College of Medicine in South Korea.

«Population studies have consistently supported a protective role of nuts against cardiometabolic disorders such as cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes, and we know that inflammation is a key process in the development of these diseases,» said corresponding author Ying Bao, MD, ScD, an epidemiologist in BWH's Channing Division of Network Medicine.

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.

«This research represents an important step toward the goal of being able to better treat thyroid diseases and being able to permanently rescue thyroid function through the transplantation of a patient's own engineered pluripotent stem cells,» explained co-corresponding author Anthony N. Hollenberg, MD, Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at BIDMC and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

The discovery is an important advance in the search for new medications to fight obesity, said senior investigator Shingo Kajimura, PhD, UCSF assistant professor of cell and tissue biology, with a joint appointment in the UCSF Diabetes Center and the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCSF.

«We can probably figure out exactly why bariatric surgery triggers remission and develop the medicine to stop diabetes,» says Walter Pories, chief of surgery at East Carolina University's Brody School of Medicine, who first showed that the illness vanished after such opemedicine to stop diabetes,» says Walter Pories, chief of surgery at East Carolina University's Brody School of Medicine, who first showed that the illness vanished after such opeMedicine, who first showed that the illness vanished after such operations.

«We found that Amish people with this mutation have defects in fat storage, increased fat in the liver, high triglycerides, low «good» (HDL) cholesterol, insulin resistance and increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes,» says the study's senior author, Coleen M. Damcott, Ph.D., an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition and member of the Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Mdiabetes,» says the study's senior author, Coleen M. Damcott, Ph.D., an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition and member of the Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Mmedicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition and member of the Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine at the University of Maryland School of MDiabetes and Nutrition and member of the Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine at the University of Maryland School of MMedicine at the University of Maryland School of MedicineMedicine.

In some 3000 elderly people, Nir Barzilai of the Albert Einstein School of Medicine in the Bronx, New York, and his colleagues plan to conduct a trial in which half the subjects would get a placebo and half would get an old (indeed, ancient) drug for type 2 diabetes called metformin, which has been shown to modify aging in some animal studies.

Queen's University assistant professor Pendar Farahani (Department of Medicine and Department of Public Health Sciences) is advocating the use of gender - based treatment for mitigating the cardiovascular risk factors related to diabetes.

A link between diabetes and statins wasn't discovered until a 2008 analysis of almost 18,000 people published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which found that 216 people taking a placebo developed type 2 diabetes while 270 taking a statin did.

Compared to eating earlier in the day, prolonged delayed eating can increase weight, insulin and cholesterol levels, and negatively affect fat metabolism, and hormonal markers implicated in heart disease, diabetes and other health problems, according to results from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found people with psoriasis that covers 10 percent of their body or more are 64 percent more likely to develop diabetes than those without psoriasis, independent of traditional risk factors such as body weight.

University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers Cynthia Owsley, Ph.D., the Nathan E. Miles Chair of Ophthalmology in the UAB Department of Ophthalmology, and UAB School of Medicine student Zachary Keenum are trying to find answers as to the extent county clinic patients with diabetes in a DR screening program adhere to the timetable of recommended follow - up eye examinations.

It suggests an opportunity to educate both patients and providers to decrease complications and improve outcomes,» says senior study author Megan R. Haymart, M.D., assistant professor of metabolism, endocrinology and diabetes at Michigan Medicine.

He went to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he studied obesity and diabetes.

The link is «tenuous,» says Luciano Rossetti, director of the diabetes research center at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City.

To investigate this, the authors conducted a study involving participants of Action in Diabetes and Vascular Disease: Preterax and Diamicron Modified Re-lease Controlled Evaluation (ADVANCE) trial (published in The Lancet in 2007 and the New England Journal of Medicine in 2008), with its cohort described by the authors as being generally representative of people with diabetes in developed countries such as Australia, New Zealand, China and nations of Europe, and also including China, a developing Diabetes and Vascular Disease: Preterax and Diamicron Modified Re-lease Controlled Evaluation (ADVANCE) trial (published in The Lancet in 2007 and the New England Journal of Medicine in 2008), with its cohort described by the authors as being generally representative of people with diabetes in developed countries such as Australia, New Zealand, China and nations of Europe, and also including China, a developing diabetes in developed countries such as Australia, New Zealand, China and nations of Europe, and also including China, a developing country.

Patients with diabetes and suffering from acute kidney injury (AKI), proteinuria and uncontrolled blood sugar experience a sharp reduction in the number of years they have healthy renal function before being forced onto dialysis, according to researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine.

This is quadruple what we had thought,» says lead study author Maria Papaleontiou, M.D., assistant professor of metabolism, endocrinology and diabetes at Michigan Medicine.

The study, «AKR1B1 promotes basal - like breast cancer progression by a positive feedback loop that activates the EMT program,» which has been published in The Journal of Experimental Medicine, suggests that an inhibitor of this enzyme currently used to treat diabetes patients could be an effective therapy for this frequently deadly form of cancer.

The danger of pseudoscience and quackery is very real, says Jeffrey I. Mechanick, an endocrinologist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine who has written extensively about the use of dietary supplements in the treatment of diabetes and other metabolic diseases.

«It's good to build on our previous research on miRNA processing and Dicer in aging and find that a decline in Dicer may also play an important role in HIV lipodystrophy by dramatically changing the biology of fat and the tendency towards diabetes and metabolic syndrome,» says lead author C. Ronald Kahn, MD, Chief Academic Officer at Joslin Diabetes Center and the Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medicaldiabetes and metabolic syndrome,» says lead author C. Ronald Kahn, MD, Chief Academic Officer at Joslin Diabetes Center and the Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine at Harvard MedicalDiabetes Center and the Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

«This study is a tour de force,» said Andrew Stewart, MD, the director of the Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Institute at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine who is unconnected with the study.

Hsin - Chieh Yeh and colleagues at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, found that the risk of diabetes is highest straight after quitting and gradually reduces to that of non-smokers.

«I'm concerned that this paper will leave people with the message that bisphenol A causes heart disease and diabetes,» says cardiovascular biologist Garret FitzGerald of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia, who worries about the small sample size; only 79 people reported cardiovascular disease.

«For most patients with diabetes and a BMI (body mass index) greater than 35, bariatric surgery increases life expectancy,» says Daniel Schauer, MD, assistant professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at UC.

The study, published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, analyzed biannual responses from 13,897 participants in the University of Michigan's Health and Retirement Study who were 54 or older and had at least one of the following chronic conditions: hypertension, diabetes, cancer, lung disease, heart disease or stroke.

Klein, the William H. Danforth Professor of Medicine and Nutritional Science and chief of the Division of Geriatrics and Nutritional Science, randomly assigned 40 obese individuals — none of whom had diabetes — to either maintain their body weight or go on a diet to lose 5, 10 or 15 percent of body weight.

The results indicate that beta cell function does not decline with age, and instead suggest that islet function is threatened by an age - dependent impairment of vessels that support them with oxygen and nutrients,» says Per - Olof Berggren at the Rolf Luft Research Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology at Karolinska Institutet, who led the study together with Alejandro Caicedo at University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Hong Gil Nam at DGIST in Republic of Korea.

«We spend a lot of time thinking about traditional risk factors for stroke such as high blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes and smoking — but our data underscore the possibility that everyday air pollution may also pose a significant stroke risk,» said senior investigator Jeffrey S. Berger, MD, an assistant professor in NYU Langone Medical Center in the Department of Medicine, Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology.

Current data, she adds, shows that in «resident - staffed general medicine clinics, residents spent an average of 5 out of 25 minutes on diabetes, and evaluation of glycated hemoglobin levels are addressed just 40 percent of the time.»

Franco Folli, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine in the Diabetes Division of the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, is co-author on the findings presented in Cell Stmedicine in the Diabetes Division of the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, is co-author on the findings presented in Cell StMedicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, is co-author on the findings presented in Cell Stem Cell.

«We found that harmine, likely by interacting with DYRK1A, increases levels of other known drivers of cell division,» said Peng Wang, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Bone Disease at the Icahn School of Medicine and first author of the paper.

«We found that those patients who were food insecure had higher A1C levels and ate fewer vegetables,» said Britt Rotberg, MS, RDN, LD, CDE, BC - ADM, Assistant Director of the Emory Diabetes Education Training Academy, Emory Latino Diabetes Education Program at the Emory School of Medicine.

Published in the Jan. 12 issue of JAMA Internal Medicine, the study found that many older diabetes patients received aggressive treatment for their disease regardless of their health status and blood sugar levels.

Writing in a linked Comment, Dr Shabbar Jaffar, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK, says: «The prevalence of diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa has increased rapidly in the past 10 years or so, affecting people in all sectors of society but, in particular, and disproportionally compared with high - income settings, affecting younger people, with substantial economic effects.