The Diabetes Blog

Diabetes causes genetic damage to a man's sperm that may affect his fertility, says researchers. Researchers from Queen's University Belfast found that men with diabetes had greater DNA damage in parts of sperm which contain the genetic...

The risk of hip fracture is 20 per cent higher in the elderly with diabetes, according to a study conducted by the Canadian researchers. Experts' this postulation is based on the results that sprang out after tracking more than 197,000 residents of...

No doubts that an excess of sugar intake, lack of physical exercise together with hereditary factors make the situation ripe for development of diabetes...but off lately another new factor has been added into this list. According to a recent study,...

Hair loss before the age of 30 is linked with diabetes. People who lose hair at a very young age are at greater risk of developing diabetes. Frequent loss of hair is generally considered to be one of the early symptoms of diabetes. Recently a...

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..

Scientists claim that they had identified several new genes connected to the most common form of diabetes in a major collaborative effort. The findings, presented in three reports by university scientists and one by a private company, provide...

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...

Researchers at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine,in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, have found out that smoking has expanded the range of diseases. Apart from causing cancer and heart diseases, diabetes has also fallen in the smoking-related.

Economic boom in Asian countries like China, India and Japan has no doubt, resulted in the efflorescence of prosperity among the individuals. However, the coin has another side too, which is a bit darker. Mean to say where this economic boom has resulted.

Warning from the American Diabetes Association (ADA) stating that the threat of diabetes is far greater than feared, is really a bolt from the blue. First let's see what ADA remarks about this threat:- The number of middle-aged patients with type 2...