Sentences with phrase «of diabetic treatment»

Paleo encourages healthy way of eating and active lifestyle which are the two primary goals of diabetic treatment and management.

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Those include Dr. Mark Hyman's The Blood Sugar Soluton, a treatment program for diabetics and those at risk of contracting the disease.
He contributes to other large - scale clinical trials including SAVE (evaluating whether treatment of obstructive sleep apnoea with continuous positive airways pressure can reduce the incidence of serious CV events in patients with established CVD), and CREDENCE, a randomised, double - blind, placebo - controlled trial assessing whether canagliflozin can slow the progression of diabetic nephropathy in patients with type 2 diabetes.
A research team from Wayne State University recently published a paper in the Journal of Clinical Investigation that provides a paradigm shift in the understanding of cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) and wound healing in the treatment of corneal and skin diabetic ulcers.
They compared the concentrations of proteins in the retinas of non-diabetic mice, of mice with type 2 diabetes without treatment and of type 2 diabetic mice that were treated with the standard drug metformin, which lowers blood glucose levels and thus reduces diabetes complications.
The treatment could prevent thousands of diabetic wound - related amputations annually in the U.S.
«Stem cells represent an exciting potential for improving the treatment and lessening the pain and discomfort of diabetic people who break bones.»
As diabetes treatment goes high - tech, diabetics are exposed to ever growing amounts of information about the state of their bodies — and many of those people are starting to wonder what they're going to do with it all.
More than half of all diabetics have some form of nerve pain and currently there is no treatment to stop damage or reverse it.
The main treatment is through growth hormone, which is contraindicated in children suffering of diabetes, because the drug increases levels of blood glucose and complicates the health of diabetic patients.
A handful of desperate Americans — struggling with treatment - resistant infections, diabetic ulcers or other chronic wounds — have journeyed to a clinic in Tbilisi, Georgia, for the «phage miracle cure.»
«Our findings are important because improved understanding of the pathogenesis of diabetic retinopathy is important in order to identify new treatments.
«A potential new treatment for diabetic enteropathy might reduce the level of IGFBP3 by preventing its production and release from the liver; however, interfering with liver function is somewhat problematic and potentially dangerous,» says Dr. Fiorina.
Masanori Aikawa, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, describes the new technology as «a monumental contribution» that should help researchers develop new treatments and learn more about diseases of endothelial tissue such as atherosclerosis and diabetic retinopathy, which can cause blindness.
B cell treatment also quickly reduced the size and improved the healing of chronic skin ulcers in the diabetic mice, increasing the number of both nerve endings and blood vessels in regenerated tissue.
Meanwhile, the study also showed that patients who received treatment for OSA using a machine connected to a face mask that delivers pressure to prevent the blockage of the airways during sleep had a lower risk of developing advanced diabetic retinopathy compared to patients who did not receive the treatment.
The findings, published in JAMA Ophthalmology, point to critical interventions in the prevention and treatment of blinding eye diseases, such as age - related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy (DR), among Chinese Americans.
In view of the growing number of diabetics and obese individuals, this method can help nutritional researchers develop new forms of treatment.
«A strategy to protect the remaining amounts of insulin produced by diabetics in response to blood sugar levels is an attractive treatment alternative, particularly in the early stages of type II diabetes,» said Dr. Seeliger, Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacological Sciences at Stony Brook University School of Medicine.
For decades, researchers said, insulin - based diabetes treatments consisted of three main strategies — inject insulin into diabetics, provide drugs that stimulate insulin secretion, or administer drugs that make the body more sensitive to insulin.
«This is only the second such report on cataract incidence in the UK's diabetic patients since the 1980s and it further emphasises the importance of the NHS Diabetic Eye Screening programme in early identification and treatment of diabetic eye disease to prevent sight loss.
An asymptomatic period that occurs between the onset of diabetic hyperglycemia, the elevated blood sugar levels that are a hallmark sign of type 2 diabetes, and clinical diagnosis is estimated to last from four to seven years, and many people are estimated to have had the condition for an average of ten years prior to diagnosis and treatment.
In an accompanying editorial, Kiran Chandrashekar, MD and Luis Juncos, MD (University of Mississippi) noted that there is a critical need to develop additional therapies to improve the treatment of diabetic nephropathy and that endothelin inhibitors hold considerable promise.
The findings, reported in the January issue of Nature Genetics, could ease the way to new treatments for burn victims, diabetics, and patients with other diseases.
«They are gorgeous studies, but they are in mice,» he says, noting that a number of previous promising diabetes treatments that have worked in mice have failed to help human diabetics.
Glycaemia monitoring is a basic element in the treatment and control of diabetic patients.
To confirm the findings, Lewis plans to look at the prevalence of diabetic men who are seeking treatment in fertility clinics.
The anti-vascular endothelial growth factor drugs ranibizumab and aflibercept, used to treat vision loss from diabetic macular edema (DME), and approximately 20 to 30 times more expensive than bevacizumab, are not cost - effective for treatment of DME compared to bevacizumab unless their prices decrease substantially, according to a study published online by JAMA Ophthalmology.
As shown in Fig. 2 A, treatment with 1 % islet homogenate from diabetic mice leads to punctated accumulation of thioflavin S (ThS)-- positive amyloid aggregates in cultured islets.
A report of the findings, published Oct. 16 in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, marks efforts to seek approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to use the gel application in treatment - resistant skin wounds among diabetics and others, particularly older adults.
«Our analysis suggests treatment of the retina with a large number of very small laser burns could prevent this «domino - like» progressive loss of small retinal blood vessels and prevent elevation of VEGF and the major complications of diabetic retinopathy,» Gast said.
During his career, Dr. Aiello has received numerous awards, including sharing the 2014 Antonio Champalimaud Vision Award with Dr. George L. King at Joslin for their contributions toward the discovery of treatments inhibiting vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) for diabetic eye disease.
We'll find out what insulin is and what it does, how the lack of insulin or insulin - insensitivity affects your body functions to produce the symptoms of diabetes, how the disease is currently treated and what future treatments are in store for diabetics.
Summary: Use of eye injections of drugs aimed at slowing the growth of abnormal blood vessels in the eye is becoming more common for the treatment of individuals with many eye problems including macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and retinal artery or vein blockage.
Chronic treatment with a glucokinase activator delays the onset of hyperglycaemia and preserves beta cell mass in the Zucker diabetic fatty rat.
Higher inflammation and greater oxidative stress in diabetic women with end - stage renal disease, as well as modifiable gender differences in access to and modalities of treatment involved, were identified in some of these studies partly explaining excess mortality in diabetic women (319 — 322).
None of the diabetic patients received insulin treatment.
Ann Marie Schmidt, M.D. Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Novel therapeutic strategy for the prevention and treatment of diabetic complications: antagonism of receptor for advanced glycation end products
Water maze learning and hippocampal synaptic plasticity in streptozotocin - diabetic rats: effects of insulin treatment.
Dr. King's research focuses on unearthing the causes of diabetic complications by exploring insulin actions on blood vessels, discovering factors and new treatments for diabetic complications, and understanding the reasons for the high rate of diabetes in Asian Americans.
«These results indicate a treatment breakthrough for saving the vision of people with diabetic macular edema,» said Neil M. Bressler, M.D., chair of the DRCR.net and chief of the Retina Division at the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University.
«This comparative - effectiveness study demonstrated that a new treatment can protect and, in many cases, improve the vision of people with diabetic macular edema,» said NEI Director Paul A. Sieving, M.D., Ph.D..
«We are very eager to develop new treatments for diabetic kidney disease,» says George King, M.D., lead author of the study, and chief scientific officer, head of the Dianne Nunnally Hoppes Laboratory for Diabetes Complications and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Laser treatment of the retina has been the standard care for diabetic macular edema since an NEI - supported study in 1985 showed it to be beneficial.
Described in a paper published today in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, the treatment would use a patient's own cells, modified to lower production of a protein called protein kinase C delta (PKC - delta), which the scientists implicated in the slow formation of blood vessel cells in diabetic wounds.
July 14, 2015 Investigational drug prevents life - threatening side effects of kidney disease treatment A yearlong study of more than 300 patients found that the investigational drug patiromer can reduce elevated blood - potassium levels — a common side effect of drugs essential in the treatment of chronic diabetic kidney disease.
About two years after my diagnosis, a woman in my karate class who was a nurse and type 1 diabetic told me she did nt think I was getting the right type of treatment.
Her research includes groundbreaking work in stem cell therapies for diabetic peripheral neurophathy and drug development for the treatment of ALS.
Other uses include treatment of chest pain, depression, and diabetic complications.
«[T] he mainstay [of diabetic] treatment fail [s] to significantly alter the course of diabetic complications.»
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