Higher level of sugar in the blood may turn you more vulnerable to stroke death. Researchers have given vent to this belief. According to an estimate, about three million people die due to high blood sugar around the world that ultimately pushes them to diabetes. Diabetics often sustain damage to blood vessels, which ultimately enhance the chances of cardiovascular disease. The greatest cause of worry is that pre-diabetics may also suffer from cardiovascular disease. Therefore, it is better to keep sugar level checked if you want to keep stoke attacks away. Image credit: sciencebob Via: iol
Soy yogurt with fruits can control your diabetes!
According to a new finding by the US researchers, eating soy yogurt, especially with fruits may help you controlling high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes as well. According to an estimate, there are about 15 million Americans suffering from type 2 diabetes and up to 150 million people Americans suffering from abnormal rise in blood sugar right after a meal. I think this revelation will bring a new ray of hope for thousands of patients with type 2 diabetes. Image credit: fatfreevegan Via: cnn
White kids at higher risk of diabetes
When it comes to diabetes, white kids are hit hardest; claiming this, a new population-based study shows that type 1 diabetes is more prevalent in white kids than those of other races. According to this study:- White kids were more susceptible to type 1 diabetes. Among Hispanic and Asian kids, its prevalence was lower but just slightly. Kids between 10 to 14 were comparatively more susceptible to type 1 diabetes. From gender point of view, girls were found more prone to diabetes than boys. Constantly, prevalence of type 2 diabetes among kids was found increasing. Prevalence of type 2 diabetes was more in American Indian between the group After going through these facts, severity of the situation can easily be assessed. Well, it is good to know that there has not been seen much rise in diabetes among kids but to take the fact, which states that around 15,000 kids are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes every year, for granted won’t be right. Actually, diabetes is quite a serious problem, which is fast raising its hood round the world, taking kids under its fold. Well, a big percentage of experts, believes that sharp rise in obesity among kids is one the of the root causes behind increase in type 1 diabetes among children. More worrying is the fact that type 2 diabetes, which is normally regarded as the disease of adults has fast started foraying into kids too all over the world. On this base, it won’t be wrong to say that strong measures are required to be taken; otherwise days are not far away when diabetes would emerge as a common health problem among kids, turning their lives into a hell. Image Via: Ivanhoe
Intensive exercise and moderate diet keeps Type 2 Diabetes away!
Scared of diabetes? Don’t be scared because a balanced diet and 30 minutes of intensive exercise may keep your away from diabetes. A new study has come carved out this fact after studying some people. During the course of study, researchers found that the people who reduced intake of fat and saturated fat, increased fiber intake, and indulged in regular intensive exercise for at least 30 minutes their chances of suffering from type 2 diabetes reduced to 58 percent. So, exercise regularly and take a moderate diet to keep type 2 diabetes at an arm’s length. Image credit: utrecsports Via: Ivanhoe
India is diabetic capital of the world: says expert!
Believe it or not but it is true that India is the ‘diabetic capital‘ of the world. In the last few decades with the growth of urbanization, lifestyle of people in India has changed so radically that it has made people more prone to type 2 diabetes. It is strange to know that out of the total number of 150 million diabetics, 37 million come from only from Indian land. According to the prediction of WHO, this figure can move to 57.5 million by the year 2025, which I think, indicates to a horrific future. Image credit: bbc Via: daijiworld
Guys be alert diabetes may cause damage to your sperm DNA
According to scientists — diabetes may destroy man’s sperm cell DNA and in return affect male fertility. The scientists from Belfast in Northern Ireland discovered that males with diabetes had higher DNA destruction in that part of sperm which usually have the genetic content. The latest study compared sperm of 27 males with type-1 diabetes, to the sperm of 29 non-diabetic males. The scientists have discovered that the sperm DNA in diabetic males had higher levels of fragmentation 52% compared to 32% in non-diabetic males. There was also a greater rate of deletions in the DNA inside their mitochondria. The scientist found that the sperms of the males with diabetes were in good health in many respects. The shape and number of the sperm from diabetic males was absolutely in good condition. But, when the DNA was tested, it was found that there was more destruction to the DNA of the diabetic males. The study result concludes that — diabetes of type 1 may lead to less fertility in diabetic males. The affect on the male’s fertility by diabetes was not studied in detail, and the process through which the destruction may occur is not known yet. More research is required to know how diabetes destroys sperm. The Diabetes Health identifies that most of the type 1(diabetes) fathers can have healthy kids. The study of the research published in the Human Reproduction. Image credit Source
Diabetes epidemic may raise drug costs by 70% through 2009: Report
Diabetics, be ready to buy your drug for the disease at a cost nearly 70 percent more compared to what it costs now by 2009! It’s the growing diabetes epidemic as well as more aggressive treatment of the disease with combination drug therapies that will lead to this soaring price, Medco Health Solutions Inc. predicts. In an interview, Dr. Lon Castle, director of medical policy for Medco, said: There are going to be a lot more drugs coming out and more and more people with type 2 diabetes will catapult diabetes to the number one class in driving year over year spending growth. The analysis projects that, by 2009, spending on medicines to treat diabetes could soar by 60 percent to 68 percent from 2006 levels. With the diabetes drug-use increased 5.1 percent from 2005 to 2006, trailing cholesterol Acne medications, spent on diabetes treatments has increased 14.5 percent. It is in 2005, diabetes drugs sales in the U.S. reached $9.88 billion! This is revealed by the data from IMS Health Inc. projecting an astounding figure, the analysis reveal that by 2009, expenditure on diabetes treatment medicines could soar by 60 percent to 68 percent from 2006 levels. With new findings coming up, newer drugs acting on new targets are increasingly being prescribed as first-line therapy. These are thus, frequently used in combination with other drugs as well. This is eventually pushing up treatment costs this year as a whole to a large extend, with the trend seeming to go even forward.
Childbirths linked to Type 2 diabetes?
If you are a mother of more than two kids then you are at higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Dr. Wands K. Nicholson and colleagues have promulgated this notion after studying about 7,000 Caucasian and African-American women between the ages 45 and 64 years. Among these women, 754 women were with type 2 diabetes. When this study reached its pinnacle, these researchers concluded that women with higher number of kids were at higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes. On the other end, women with minimum number of kids or without kids had lowest chances of developing type 2 diabetes. No doubt, factors like obesity and lower socioeconomic status also affect diabetes rate but with this study, fact has come out that multiple births also higher up the risk of type 2 diabetes. This disclosure is important for all the women worldwide but I think it is somewhat more important for the women living in developing countries since in these countries rate of multiple births is higher. Image credit: tribuneindia Via: reuters
Diabetes may lower prostate cancer chances!
If you are a type 2 diabetic then you are at least less prone to prostate cancer. This finding has been put forward by a recent study and bringing out the conclusion more clearly Dr. Mona Saraiva and colleagues from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Atlanta said: Recent studies have suggested an association between type 2 diabetes mellitus and lower risk of prostate cancer. To come up with firm evidences researchers studied some people with type 2 diabetes and some without this type of diabetes and came up with the conclusion that patients with type 2 diabetes were with 21.6 percent less PSA level. Actually, PSA or prostate -specific antigen level is a biological marker of prostate cancer and higher level of PSA shows that person is at higher risk of prostate cancer. This new finding provides researchers with some important clues, helping them to find a better solution to treat prostate cancer. Image credit: patients-association Via: yahoo
When it comes to death rate from diabetes, gender matters!
When it comes to death rate from diabetes, gender matters yes, you get it right and women are hit hard by this death rate disparity from diabetes. This conclusion is the result of an analysis of three large databases that included 29 years between 1971 and 2000. As per the findings of this analysis, where death rate among men with diabetes has plummeted, at the same time death rate among diabetic women has gone higher, making the whole issue quite tangled. According to this analysis, there has been noticed a reduction of 43 percent death rate in men with diabetes while death rate among women hasn’t come down. However, what stands behind this gender based death rate disparity is proving to be a tough question even for the experts. In the words of study author: The reasons for the gender disparity are unclear. However, they don’t fail in giving different reasons behind this gender based death rate disparity among diabetics. Giving reference of different studies where some experts hold the view that women receive comparatively less aggressive care when it comes to treatments, meant for heart disease and risk factors, associated with it. At the same time, some state that due to different biological structure women require somewhat different types of treatments. Conclusions, looming out of this study don’t sound too precise, as there seems lack of conformity between different studies, conducted on this issue. Still, we could say that there lies a new hope as death rate among diabetic men has gone down. Well, as far as this rate among women is concerned we could say that much work remains to be done. Image Via: Ivanhoe
