This video explains 10 early signs and symptoms of diabetes that often go unnoticed. These include increased thirst, frequent bathroom breaks, recurrent infections, unexplained weight changes, and blurry…
This video dives into Pompe Disease, also known as Glycogen Storage Disease Type 2. The host explains the key components of this disease, where the body cannot break…
Rasheed A. Balogun, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology at the University of Virginia Health System, discusses the risk factors and rising worldwide incidence…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The onset of type 2 diabetes before middle age is independently associated with a higher prevalence and greater severity of diabetic retinopathy, investigators…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Frequent severe episodes of hypoglycemia associated with intensive diabetes treatment do not adversely affect cognitive function in adolescents with type 1 diabetes, according…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Exposure to bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical used in the resins that line food and beverage containers and in the production of polycarbonate…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Treatment with the phosphodiesterase inhibitor pentoxifylline can significantly reduce proteinuria in patients with diabetic and other forms of chronic kidney disease, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with diabetes and coronary heart disease, an impaired antiplatelet response to low-dose aspirin can be overcome by increasing the aspirin dose…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In pregnant women with type 1 or type 2 diabetes, maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) values require routine upward adjustment during second-trimester screening for…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a postmortem study of patients with Alzheimer’s disease, diabetic subjects treated with both insulin and oral hypoglycemic agents had lower neuritic plaque…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Finnish researchers report evidence that proliferative diabetic retinopathy, like diabetic nephropathy, clusters in families, suggesting that genetic factors play a role in its…
In a recent study, diabetics who took both insulin and other medications for the disease had fewer plaques associated with Alzheimer’s disease than other patients. References and Resources…
