Diabetes is often blamed for various diseases like obesity, cholesterol levels and blood pressures. Now patients can check their blood sugar levels with a new blood test and thereby get appropriate treatment to control it. Both Type1 and Type2 diabetics can go for the test. The test called hemoglobin A1c (HA1c) test which is meant to check glycated hemoglobin helpful to measure the levels of blood sugar. As glycosylated hemoglobin level acts as a pointer showing the risks of heart like blood pressure and cholesterol levels. It is found that with the rise in levels of blood sugar, the risk of heart and artery diseases also rises high. Rise by one percentage in HA1c increases the risk of heart disease to 18 percent, whereas to 28 percent in case of peripheral vascular disease. In contrast, person with less than 5 percent of HA1c, found to have low rates of heart disease and death rates. So, diabetics need to go for the HA1c test regularly so that they can maintain their blood sugar levels in a better way. The test can also be helpful to the patients by indicating them the risk of heart related diseases. Image Via: paktribune
Potatoes and French Fries may elevate the risk of Diabetes!
Diabetics require a careful watch towards their diet. Taking potatoes in your diet may increase your chances to get Type2 diabetes. Potatoes, especially french fries can be harmful for Type2 diabetics as it contains a high level of glycemic carbohydrate supposed to increase blocking of insulin as well as risk of Type2 diabetes. With increased glycemic index, faster the food lifts up the blood sugar levels. Exercising for longer time or more severely can help to consume glycogen stored in the body making the body to metabolize, in turn reduces the fat. Thus, regular exercise not only lowers the risk of diabetes but also others like cancer and heart diseases. Therefore, people need to avoid consumption of potatoes and french fries to lower the risk of type2 diabetes along with consumption of carbohydrates with lower glycemic indices. In addition, maintain a proper schedule for routine exercise. Image Via: thenewstoday
Discovery of ‘Calcineurin’ protein may help in treating Diabetes!
Researchers have discovered a protein that plays a significant role in the development of diabetes. The protein called ‘calcineurin’ that leads to the development of insulin producing pancreatic beta cells. These beta cells produce lower amount or no insulin, thereby preventing the body cells from taking sugar after meal. Thereafter, sugar accumulates in blood causing damage to the blood vessels, kidneys and eyes. Trials were conducted on mice showing that calcineurin protein regulates 10 genes related to diabetes whereas no trials were conducted on humans up til now. Drugs that exhibit calcineurin or NAFT may be helpful in providing treatment to type2 diabeties under which beta cells do not produce sufficient insulin along with treating diseases like hypoglycaemia or pancreatic tumors under which beta cells produce high amount of insulin. The study found to be stepping towards the right direction, benefiting type2 diabetics with the development of a new drug, soon after the trials are made on human. Via: BBC
Mother’s Milk may prove beneficial for infants to lower Diabetes risk!
Mother’s milk is often said as a better medicine safeguarding child from several diseases. Likewise, a new study suggested that mother’s milk may prove beneficial for child to curb risk of diabetes in long term. Infants provided with mother’s milk found to be least risked of developing diabetes. As breast-feeding for more than two months reduces the risk of non-insulin dependent diabete (NNDD) more than fifty percent Overall, mother’s milk not found to be a perfect form of nutrition but it works far better protective means to uphold the health of an infant than the bottle-feed milk. Therefore, it is an essential duty of a mother to provide her child with milk as far as possible. Some women think that breast-feeding can spoil their figure that is not a true fact rather it lead to reduce the risk of breast cancers and other diseases also. Further, more education to women need to be provided regarding the benefits of breast-feeding that can be helpful in protecting both the child as well as mother to fight various diseases. Image Via: paktribune
Diabetes more dangerous than obesity!
Diabetes can prove more fatal as compared to obesity. So, diabetics need to take care of their health in a proper way as their problem can lead to death due to acute failure of major organs of the body. A new study suggested that people with diabetes are at high risk of desperate ailment that can lead to death rather to those with obesity. Diabetics, even with low BMI, found to develop acute organ failure three times more as compared to overweight without diabetes, thereby causing death. I believe that diabetes can ruin insulin-producing or related organs of the body like pancreas paving way to death. Whereas is obesity also responsible for causing various problems like fat accumulation, high cholesterol and blood pressure and likewise, but may not risk in developing organ failure until one get attacked from diabetes. Therefore, diabetics as well as obese need watch on their health by getting early treatment as possible. In addition, obese require to go for regular check-up to check-out the development of diabetes, if any. Image Via: xinhuanet
‘Leptin’ can reduce high insulin production in Type2 diabetes!
Type2 diabetic patients often become resistant to insulin effects leading to high amount of it to get assembled in the body. A recent study reported a hormone that can help to get over the high amount of insulin production in the body. An appetite controlling hormone called leptin helps in maintaining the body from producing high amount of insulin. Trials were conducted on mice till the time by injecting a gene in diabetic mice’s brains in order to increase the production of appetite controlling hormone leptin in hypothalamus and found that mice even after getting high-fat diet returned in normal position against the fact that high-fat promotes the worsening of Type2 diabetes. Yet, it is not verified whether leptin action in hypothalamus is responsible for controlling the emission of insulin or not. No doubt, the finding proves to be a noteworthy piece of work but requires further research to be done to get a clear-cut proof of leptin’s performance in controlling insulin. However, no trials conducted on humans, so diabetics need to wait until the findings may get some appropriate direction of treatment. Image Via: forbes
Large Waistline with Obesity may boost up Type2 Diabetes!
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
