The Diabetes Blog

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...

Diabetics have always been considered at higher risk of kidney failure. But more confounding is the fact that between the time periods of 1995 to 2004, the number of diabetics with end-stage kidney failure have almost doubled. This startling fact...

If you dwell in the area, where toxic waste is prevalent, then you are more likely to turn out a diabetic. A new observational study, which tracked hospitalization rates for patients in New York between 1993 and 2000, has given vent to this view....

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...

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..

Type 2 diabetes may have some association with primary open angle glaucoma (POAG). According to the researchers of Harvard Medical School, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Brigham and Women's Hospital, POGA is a common form of all glaucoma...

Low-fat dairy products might reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes in women. At the same time, some of previous research has already stated that high level of dairy foods in the diet may reduce the risk of obesity or developing insulin resistance...

Young children and teenagers are being prone to diabetes in the US. Obesity of children might be said as the major cause of the growing problem diabetes in kids and youth. Lack of sufficient physical activities in children are the major cause of...

Canadian drug delivery firm Generex, in the partnership with Danish medicinal chewing gum specialists Fertin Pharma, is on the way to develop a medicinal chewing gum to treat Type 2 diabetes and obesity soon. Small Canadian drug delivery firm Generex..

If women have diabetes, their babies are three times at risk to die at birth. They are two times at the risk of developing abnormalities in later life. They can have heart problems and neural tube defects too. It does not matter if women had...