- February 24, 2008
A Bahraini expert has said that one out of every four Bahraini has diabetes…
Expressing concern over growing percentage of diabetes patients,
Dr Mariam Al Mulla Hirmas Al Hajri cited obesity, lack of exercise and poor and unhealthy diets as the main reasons behind its spread.
[Story at Khaleej Times Online:
Concern over increase in diabetes cases in Bahrain.]
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- February 17, 2008
Early results from the largest study ever [ADVANCE] of aggressive measures to control blood sugar in
type 2 diabetes
has found no sign that intensive treatment increases the risk of death.
This result contradicts the results of ACCORD, released a week earlier.
[Story at MyDiabetesCentral:
International diabetes study contradicts US trial.
Press release at Preliminary findings from the largest-ever study of treatments for diabetes provide no evidence that intensive treatment to lower blood glucose (sugar) increases risk of death;
commentary by Dr. Quick at ADVANCE and ACCORD and A1C.]
- February 9, 2008
Diabetes experts are stunned after a major North American study found driving blood-sugar levels below current guidelines appears to increase the risk of dying from heart attack and stroke in high-risk patients. Experts have long thought lowering blood-sugar levels in diabetes patients to levels found in non-diabetic adults would reduce their risk of dying of cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in people with diabetes.
[Story at TheStar.com:
Aggressive diabetes treatment linked to heart attacks, strokes.
NIH press release at
For Safety, NHLBI Changes Intensive Blood Sugar Treatment Strategy in Clinical Trial of Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease, which is reproduced at
the Diabetes Monitor.
Commentary by Dr. Quick at ACCORD and A1C.]
- February 2, 2008
Researchers are experimenting with new ways of harvesting insulin-producing islet cells from pigs and transplanting them into diabetes sufferers in the hope of one day reducing the need for daily insulin shots and even replacing them with twice-yearly islet-cell treatments.
[Story at Scientific American:
Pigs Could Be the Salvation of Diabetes Sufferers: Researchers are testing insulin-producing porcine islet cells to treat people with type 1 diabetes.]
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