The risk of Type2 diabetes can increase if one is having a large waistline or is overweight. But it can be more dangerous for an individual to have both the combination of large waistline as well as overweight including abdominal fat which depicts large waistline. BMI is the standard mode to classify the weight of people into normal and overweight, whereas tape measurement can be best suited to measure abdominal weight. Overweight women with less abdominal fat found to have low risk of developing diabetes as compared to those with high abdominal fat raising the size waistline, in turn leading to increase the risk of diabetes up to 10 times by considering the risk factors such as age, exercise habits and history of parents relating to diabetes. Men with highest BMI found to have four times higher risk of developing diabetes as compared to normal men. Now, people need to pay due attention towards their increasing weight, especially abdominal weight that can raise the risk of type2 diabetes. Mostly women are risked highly, so they need proper care of body by doing exercises and taking low-calorie diet to maintain ideal weight. Image Via: reuters
Get rid of painful insulin shots with ‘Islet Cell Transplantation’
Diabetics, are you fed up with insulin shots ? Now, here comes some respite for you. A new treatment now can help you overcome the problem of insulin shots up to some extent. The treatment called islet cell transplantation that not only helps to alleviate the severe complications of type1 diabetes but also reduces the requirements of insulin shots as these islet cells can help the Type1 patients in producing insulin in pancreas of which they are lacking. The islet cell transplantation helps to avoid use of insulin shots for a period of two years. Moreover, the transplantation proved booming to provide protection against hypoglycemic unawareness-a severe diabetes complication under which people are unable to identify the symptom of low blood sugar. So, Diabetics! Cheer up now as you need not go for insulin shots repeatedly as new treatment has solved your problem providing you ease along with protection from hypoglycemic unawareness-another benefit to be availed with the treatment. Overall, the treatment tends to be worth rewarding in the health care of diabetics. Image Via: ivanhoe
Better know diabetes to fight Hypoglycemia
The word ‘Hypoglycemia’ is often used to describe low level of glucose in the blood. Most of the diabetic persons are found coping with this problem. Hypoglycemia results in low level of energy. The fundamental reason behind hypoglycemia is malfunctioning of pancreas and the people suffering from hypoglycemia often find it difficult to control the level of sugar in their blood. However, it would be wrong to say that only diabetic persons face hypoglycemia but those person who go on with fast are also often found coping with this problem. Therefore, medical science has to do a lot to drag out people of such worrying conditions that stick to them like gadflies throughout their life. Thanks: Nilutpal Gogoi Image credit: nutriweb Via: market-day
MedApps D-PAL system to monitor diabetes through your cell phones
MedApps D-PAL system will hit the mainstream to monitor diabetes through your cell phones and enabling patients not to visit their doctor again and again. You may wonder how it is possible; of course, it is possible. A Scottsdale-based startup company is very soon going to come out with new software that will enable you to do so. This wireless technology will transmit diabetes patients’ data from their cell phones to an online server, which will check the level of sugar in their blood. In case the sugar level in above normal than automated voice-response unit will call and patient and ask him some question about his or her diet and medication, objectively and that information will be forwarded to the doctor of the patient. This is a wonderful idea. Whereas this technology will save a lot of time of the patient, it will also free him from bothering about visiting doctor regularly. Image credit: savvyhealth Via: azcentral
High Blood Sugar Level May Put Your Life In Danger During Surgery
If you are undergoing surgery with having high level of sugar then you may be jeopardizing your life. The researchers found during the course of their study that the patients who undergo surgery with having high sugar level have more chances of developing blood clots than the normal patients. Stressing upon the need of controlling blood sugar level, study’s lead author, Dr. Boris Mraovic who is an assistant professor of anesthesiology at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia said: The take-home message is that all patients should get their blood sugar under control before undergoing elective surgery. Personally, I believe that it is an important revelation that all the surgeons and patients should imbibe. Image credit; ottawahospital Via: healthday
Metformin: The major cause of B12 deficiency in diabetics!
Drug Metformin, commonly used to treat diabetics may be responsible for the deficiency of vitamin B12, a new study has wrapped out this fact. However, it is great pity that scientists are still ignorant about the fact that how metformin treated diabetics develop B12 deficiency. Most of the prescription drugs results in the depletion of some nutrients from our body. That is the reason why most of the patients who take prescription drugs mostly suffer from nutritional deficiencies. The major cause of worry of these scientists is that they have come to know that deficiency of B12 may lead to mental decline, nervous system disorders in the diabetics. Don’t you think this is a startling revelation that may emerge as a major cause of worry for most of the diabetics? Image credit: bbc Via: newstarget
Drink Coffee to keep away type 2 diabetes!
Believe it or not but it is true that drinking caffeinated coffee may keep you away from type 2 diabetes, at least up to 60 per cent. This disclosure may give you another reason to have more sips of hot coffee. The interesting thing about this disclosure is that it was found effective on those too who were earlier having coffee but not now. The researchers are pretty confident about their revelation and polishing out this, Besa Smith, MPH said: Our findings were very strong……… the next step is to pinpoint the compounds in coffee responsible for this protective effect. So ladies and gentlemen, let’s have another cup. Image credit: cache.kotaku Via: webmd
New gene therapy may enhance sexual function in diabetics
Hey! Good news for the diabetics who are having inferior sexual functioning. Researchers have invented a new gene therapy that is capable of improving the sexual functioning of the diabetics. This new gene therapy has been found successful in temporarily repairing the damage, which is caused by this disease and that often results in the erectile dysfunction in most of the diabetics. The good thing about this gene therapy is that it may also help those diabetics who find no help from Viagra. According to an estimate Viagra helps only 40 to 60 percents of the diabetics. If this new gene therapy comes out safe for human than within 5 to 6 years it would be available for a common man. Those diabetics whom Viagra is unable to help may hope to have help from this new gene therapy. Image credit: exn Via: guardian
‘Acomplia’ checks sugar level along with your weight!
Weight loss drug named Acomplia may also help those people who suffer from type 2 diabetes. Obese people who were also suffering from diabetes, when used Acomplia for a year along with regular exercise and strict diet found this drug quite benificial. Those obese patients who were taking drug Acomplia showed great improvements in blood sugar control, blood fat level and also in the circumference of the waist. However, diabetics in US may still have to wait for this drug as it has not been approved for sale in the US. I believe this drug is really amazing, whereas it will help in checking weight gain, it will also help diabetics in controlling their type 2 diabetes. Image credit: trachealth Via: webmd
Milk Thistle to cure diabetics!
Here is a good new for the patients, suffering from type 2 diabetes. Iranian researchers have come out with their study to evince that milk thistle, a flowering herb may play an important role in controlling type 2 diabetes. It is worth knowing that another name of milk thistle is silymarin. However, still scientists are not very sure about their new finding because these results have bubbled out just after a preliminary study. But by now, the progress that has been made is really encouraging. I hope a further study in this context will bring out results that would be more futuristic. Image credit: christopherhobbs Via: topix
