Tag - Type 1 diabetes
Do you know 20.8 million children and adults in the United States are diabetic?
This adds up to 7 percent of the population. To add to the crisis, of them an estimated 14.6 million have been diagnosed, but unfortunately, 6.2 million people, ie....
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...
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,...
Chances are very high that very soon it would be quite possible to expunge type 1 diabetes totally. Actually, a new study aiming at the causes of type 1 diabetes has prompted researchers to think so. As we all know that in a person with type 1 diabetes...
Vitamins B may make endothelial function normal in juvenile diabetes. The July issue of 'Pediatrics' has published the report of the study.
The study involved administration of folate and vitamin B6 alone and in combination for eight weeks in 124...
Common infections might be proved as stimulator for diabetes in children and young adults. The researchers from Leeds and Newcastle conducted the study that looked at the time and places where the patients were diagnosed.
They revealed that a certain...
Here is a new hope for the patients of diabetes. A cancer treatment, Rituximab, may help diabetes patients to get a possible treatment.
The monoclonal antibody targets B cells that may cause type 1 diabetes. This is not a traditional chemotherapy. It...
A research team of Israel has discovered a molecular mechanism of vaccination for Type 1 diabetes. Professor Irun Cohen of the Weizmann Institute of Science says that the vaccination is in the sophisticated stage of the study. The further research will...
A gene encoding for cytokine may prevent to development the onset of hyperglycemia. Cytokine, a protein, stimulates and obstructs the creation and function of the immune cells from making insulin-producing cells.
Researchers from the University of...
A new research has found that some young people have showed both kinds of the diabetic condition i.e. Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. This phenomenon is called as 'double' or 'hybrid' diabetes. The cases of double diabetes are on the rise in children...
The 2003 mouse experiment suggestive of a cure for type 1 diabetes has been facing controversy all these days. Researchers attempting to reproduce it found evidence that the experimental procedure does eliminate diabetic symptoms in a small fraction of...
The first Seattle-Sweden Childhood Diabetes Awareness Day in Seattle, Washington will be held on April 1. The event is being organized by Professor ke Lernmark who works at the University of Washington and the Consulate General of Sweden in...
If researchers squelch an immune system attack that is causing the disease, severely diabetic mice can recover on their own -- three groups of scientists report today. This discovery was first published in 2001 raising the hopes of people with Type 1...
Marking a major breakthrough in diabetes research, Bioengineers at the University of Calgary in Canada have successfully grown insulin producing cells in a lab! Yes, to repeat it, its insulin producing cells in a lab. You read it right.
You can get rid...
The risk of developing diabetes later in life increases by gestational diabetes mellitus. Finnish investigators report this in Diabetes Care. According to the study, overall, 62.5 percent of women who developed type 1 diabetes tested positive for islet...
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