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Type 2 diabetes can have a slow onset, and early symptoms can be confused with signs of stress, being overweight, or a poor diet. But the arsenal of tools to combat diabetes grows every year.
Not Just Living With, but Living Well With, Type 2 Diabetes
Here's a shocker: About a quarter of the 24 million Americans who have diabetes don't know it yet. Whether you're a newbie or a veteran, there is much more than medicine involved in the treatment of this disease.Type 2 Diabetes News
Eye Changes May Predict Heart Disease in Blacks With Diabetes
MONDAY, May 14 (HealthDay News) — In black Americans with type 1 diabetes, narrowing of the small arteries in the eye’s retina (retinal arteriolar narrowing) is associated with increased risk for cardiovascular disease, a new study finds. “Retinal arteriolar narrowing has long been described as one of the characteristic changes associated with hypertension [high blood pressure] [...]
Could Eating Fast Increase Diabetes Risk?
TUESDAY, May 8 (HealthDay News) — Eating too quickly may raise your risk of diabetes, a small, preliminary study suggests. Researchers from Lithuania compared 234 people with type 2 diabetes and 468 people without the disease and found that those who gobble down their food were 2.5 times more likely to have diabetes than those who [...]
Value of Metformin, Insulin Combo for Type 2 Diabetes Questioned
THURSDAY, April 19 (HealthDay News) — It’s not clear whether patients with type 2 diabetes gain any long-term benefit from taking the blood sugar-lowering drug metformin and insulin together rather than insulin alone. That’s the conclusion of Danish researchers who reviewed data from 23 clinical trials involving more than 2,200 patients over the age of [...]
Diabetes Groups Issue New Guidelines on Blood Sugar
By Serena GordonHealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, April 19 (HealthDay News) — Type 2 diabetes is a complex metabolic disorder, and treating the disease often requires a personalized, multi-pronged approach, say new expert guidelines on treating high blood sugar levels, issued Thursday. The recommendations are a joint effort by the American Diabetes Association and the European Association for the [...]
Weight-Loss Surgery Beat Drugs for Cutting Diabetes in Very Obese
By Kathleen DohenyHealthDay Reporter MONDAY, April 16 (HealthDay News) — A bariatric surgical procedure is more likely than medicine to improve or even reverse type 2 diabetes in very obese patients, a new small study indicates. Italian researchers compared standard diabetes medicine with a surgical procedure known as the laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, and while 80 percent of [...]
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