- August 26, 2007
New research reveals patients who have had a
heart attack are 4.5-times more likely to develop diabetes
compared to the general population. Heart attack
patients
are also 15-times more likely to develop a pre-diabetes condition known as
impaired fasting glucose.
Incidence of new-onset diabetes and impaired fasting glucose in patients with recent myocardial infarction and the effect of clinical and lifestyle risk factors.
The Lancet 2007; 370:667-675
[Story at Ivanhoe Newswire;
Abstract at
Lancet;
full text at
Lancet, requires subscription.]
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- August 18, 2007
Pregnancies in Jerusalem in the 1960s and 1970s may hold vital clues about how pancreatic cancer and diabetes are linked. According to recent research, women with a history of
gestational diabetes
had a higher risk of developing pancreatic cancer later in life.
Gestational diabetes as a risk factor for pancreatic
cancer: a prospective cohort study.
BMC Medicine 2007, 5:25
[Story at ScienceDaily:
Abstract at
BMC Medicine;
full text at
BMC Medicine [PDF file].]
- August 15, 2007
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced that the manufacturers of certain drugs approved to treat
type 2 diabetes
(Avandia
and
Actos
and
combination pills containing these drugs)
have agreed to add a stronger warning on the risk of heart failure, a condition that occurs when the heart does not adequately pump blood. The information will be included in the form of a "boxed" warning-FDA's strongest form of a warning. The upgraded warning emphasizes that the drugs may cause or worsen heart failure in certain patients.
[Story at FDA website, and reproduced at the
Diabetes Monitor:
Manufacturers of Some Diabetes Drugs to Strengthen Warning on Heart Failure Risk.]
- August 12, 2007
The full text of the minutes of the FDA Advisory Committee meeting about
Avandia
from July 30 are now posted
on-line at http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/07/minutes/2007-4308m1-final.pdf
[PDF file].
- August 1, 2007
Children with diabetes will again be able to attend diabetes camp
in the country of Georgia.
"Within the frames of the project children will undergo psycho-social adaptation and
trainings. Children will adapt to physical activity
and will control their regime as well.
It's been 13 years that the above mentioned association is carrying out the similar projects. Together with Georgians 10 American children will pass holidays in Bakuriani also."
[Story at ImediNews:
Children diseased with diabetes mellitus will pass their holidays in Bakuriani this year.]
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