Diabetes | Risk Factors, Symptoms and Treatment 2008
These are reputable links to 2008 Press reports and Studies on the Risk Factors of Diabetes. It will also feature articles on how you can reduce your risk of Diabetes. Diabetes and Heart Diseases share similar risk factors, so lowering your risk on diabetes, can also also have beneficial health effects to heart diseases like heart attacks, strokes, high blood pressure etc.
Topics covered in this page on Diabetes are:
- Risk Factors
- Symptoms
- How to Avoid it
- Remedies and Treatment (especially natural healing alternatives)
- Drug Warnings
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Looking For A Link Between Sleep Apnea & Diabetes. Imagine trying to hold your breath for 30 seconds at a time, every other minute, for the next 8 hours. That’s exactly what happens during the night to some people who have sleep apnea. It’s a condition that’s costing some 12-million Americans a good night’s sleep, and sleep apnea might do more than that. Some doctors say sleep apnea can play a role in everything from high blood pressure to heart problems. Now, there may be a link to diabetes. “We do not know whether sleep apnea actually causes diabetes. What we do know is that patients with sleep apnea have an increased insulin resistance, which is a hallmark of patients with diabetes,” says Magalang. —– (Medical News Today, 03 Apr 2008
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Maternal periodontal disease may lead to gestational diabetes mellitus. Recent study results suggest that pregnant women with periodontal disease may be more susceptible to gestational diabetes mellitus, compared with pregnant women with healthy gums. However, these findings were not statistically significant. —– (Endocrine Today, April 4, 2008)
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Reduced Lung Capacity Accelerates With Diabetes. People who have diabetes encounter a faster loss of lung capacity than those who do not have diabetes, a finding that may have implications for the potential use of inhaled insulin, according to a study appearing in the April issue of Diabetes Care.The lung research, part of a larger investigation known as the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study, confirmed previous suggestions that the lung is a target organ for diabetic injury and that lung abnormalities accelerate once diabetes takes hold. This could be because high blood sugar levels stiffen the lung tissue, or because the fat tissue in the chest and abdomen may confine the lungs more in people with diabetes, explained the researchers. —– (PR Newswire-US Newswire, March 27 2008)
Counting calories alone isn’t enough. Without insulin, sugar stays in the blood and accumulates (this is called diabetes). Thus, insulin provides a valuable service to the body. But as with most things in life, too much insulin is a bad thing.
The release of insulin is directly proportional to the body’s perceived sugar challenge. If
This is where the distinction between simple carbs and complex carbs comes into play. Simple carbs (processed foods loaded with table sugar — soda, candy, pastries, etc.) are digested quickly and easily, and the sugar enters the bloodstream in high concentrations, causing a big insulin response.
Complex carbs (vegetables, fruits and whole grains) are digested slowly, in a time-release fashion, and the glucose they contain enters the bloodstream gradually, which dampens the insulin response. The presence of fiber in complex carbs helps slow the process. This means, as a rule of thumb when choosing healthy carbs, choose those with fiber — the more the better. —– (Courier Journal, Louisville, March 27, 2008)
Antidepressants raise risk of Type 2 diabetes. People with histories of depression had a 30-per-cent higher risk of developing diabetes versus those with no histories of the illness. By analyzing the medical data of 2,400 people, she discovered that approximately 10 per cent of the patients were taking two medications at the same time, doubling their risk of developing diabetes, compared to those taking one medication. The medications in question were tricyclic antidepressants, known as TCAs, and selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors, commonly known as SSRIs. Brown said TCAs are among the “older” medications used to treat depression, under brand names such as Elavil and Aventyl. —– (Edmonton Journal, 24 March 2008)
For patients with type 1 diabetes, increased levels of uric acid in the blood may be an early sign of diabetic kidney disease–appearing before any significant change in urine albumin level, the standard screening test, reports a study in the May 2008 issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. The results raise the possibility that treatments to reduce uric acid might slow the decline of renal function in patients with diabetes. —– (ScienceDaily, Mar. 21, 2008)
U.S. Diabetes Population Doubled in Past Decade with Continued Growth Fueled by 77 Million “Pre-Diabetic” Patient Population, According to Study by GfK Market Measures’ Roper Global Diabetes Group. —– (Business Wire, March 20, 2008)
Eli Lilly, the drug maker, could and should have warned physicians as early as 1998 about the link between Zyprexa, its best-selling schizophrenia medicine, and diabetes, an expert witness told jurors Friday in a lawsuit that claims that Zyprexa has caused many mentally ill people to develop diabetes.Instead, Lilly hid Zyprexa’s risks from doctors to protect the drug’s sales, according to the witness, Dr. John Gueriguian. Lilly waited until 2007 to add strong warnings to Zyprexa’s label to reflect the drug’s tendency to cause severe weight gain and blood sugar changes. Dr. Gueriguian is a specialist on diabetes and was a medical reviewer for the Food and Drug Administration for 20 years before retiring in 1998. At the F.D.A., he recommended against the approval of Rezulin, a diabetes drug that was later withdrawn for causing severe liver damage in patients. —– (New York Times, March 8, 2008)
Maternal Diabetes Causes Damage To Offspring’s Beta Cell Functions. The link between a woman’s maternal diabetes and her child’s increased risk for diabetic complications is one step closer to being understood. According to recent research performed at the University if Louisville, there are many functional and metabolic changes that occur in such a child’s pancreatic β cells, which could help explain this increased risk. They conclude that maternal diabetes can cause many disturbances in the metabolic and other functions of the pancreatic β cells of the offspring. These disturbances could contribute to later development of type 2 diabetes, and could hold many clues to the link between gestational diabetes and type II diabetes in humans. —– (Medical News Today, March 07, 2008)
- 21 million Americans have diabetes.
- More than 6 million Americans don’t know they have diabetes.
- Another 54 million Americans are pre-diabetic.
- Diabetes kills 73,000 Americans a year.
- More than 60% of non-traumatic lower-limb amputations occur in people with diabetes.
- If present trends continue, one in three Americans, and 1 in 2 minorities, born in 2000 will develop diabetes in their lifetime. About 4,110 people are diagnosed with diabetes every day. $174 billion: The estimated economic cost of diabetes in 2007. Medical expenditures alone were $116 billion.
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Tea could help combat diabetes. Drinking black tea could help prevent diabetes, according to new findings by scientists at Dundee University. —– (BBC News, 2 March 2008)
Marker for Diabetes Might Miss Early Vision Complication. Fasting blood sugar levels are typically used to diagnose diabetes, however, a common complication of the disease that can lead to blindness begins at blood sugar levels below what is considered diabetic, Australian researchers report. Retinopathy is a vascular condition where the small blood vessels in the eye become damaged; other complications of diabetes include heart, kidney and circulatory problems.—– (US News & World Report, 29 Feb 2008)
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Diabetes Risk for Children and Obese People. Well-preserved insulin resistance does not accelerate onset of type 1 diabetes. The incidences of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes are increasing at an alarming rate. For type 2 diabetes, the explanation has been increased insulin resistance associated with the worldwide epidemic of obesity. Most dramatic has been a surge of type 2 diabetes in children, a condition rarely seen 20 years ago. This recent development has led to occasional difficulty determining whether a child with new-onset diabetes has type 1 or type 2 disease. As approximately 30% of children are overweight, it is expected that 30% of children with new-onset type 1 diabetes will be overweight. The presence of low titer antibodies in many of these children also contributes to this diagnostic dilemma. The “Accelerator Hypothesis” of Wilkin, et al. postulates that the presence of obesity results in early appearance of type 1 diabetes due to insulin resistance which, in turn, results in over-stimulation of the beta cells and consequent early auto-immune destruction of beta cells in individuals genetically predisposed to develop type 1 diabetes. Thus, the insulin resistance associated with obesity is associated with a younger age of diagnosis of type 1 diabetes in children at risk for the later development of autoimmune diabetes. —– (Endocrine Today, February 29, 2008)
Diabulimia—a Young Diabetics’ Eating Disorder. The price of thinness is especially high for this group: The Diabetes Care study found that women with type 1 diabetes who intentionally forgo their insulin medication have a threefold increased risk of premature death and higher rates of complications—including kidney dysfunction and foot problems—than those who don’t. —– (US News & World Report, February 27, 2008)
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Embryo defects may give predisposition to diabetes. Study suggests that abnormal organ development before birth could predispose certain individuals to autoimmune disease. Faustman’s team noticed before that mice and humans with type 1 diabetes are also more likely to experience hearing loss and Sjögren’s syndrome, an autoimmune disease affecting the salivary glands.—– (NewScientist, 26 February 2008)
Cure Diabetes with Weight Loss, Not Drugs, Expert Says. According to leading weight loss expert, Dr. Kent Sasse, some of the most common and effective treatments for diabetes actually cause more weight gain. Insulin, the primary treatment for diabetes, is known to cause weight gain in diabetic patients, in part because insulin acts on the fat storage cells to block the breakdown and promote more storage of these fats. —– (PRNewswire, Feb. 25. 2008)
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Vaccines are Likely to Cause Insulin Dependent Diabetes in Over 2% of Children With a Strong Family History of Insulin Dependent Diabetes, New Data Indicates. Vaccines are particularly toxic to those with a strong family history of diabetes. For example, the hemophilus vaccine which had been proven to cause diabetes in approximately 1 in every 2,000 immunized children in the general public has now been linked to causing diabetes in 1 in every 50 immunized children (2%) who have a sibling with insulin dependent diabetes. The new data is published in the Open Pediatric Medicine Journal. An accompanying article in the same journal links the hepatitis B vaccine to insulin dependent diabetes. —– (Sun Herald, 25 Feb 2008)
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Half a million people ‘unaware’ they have diabetes. Researchers led by Dr Tim Holt from the University of Warwick surveyed over 3.6 million electronic patient records in 480 GP surgeries across the UK. —– (In The News UK, 25 Feb 2008)
‘Normal life’ with diabetes. These former patients had lost their legs below the knee due to complications from diabetes or peripheral vascular disease. Forty-five per cent of the patients were still alive, 39% had died, mostly from heart conditions, and the status of 16% was unknown. —– (Toronto Sun, February 23, 2008)
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The Loneliness of Diabetes. People don’t realize that everything affects your blood sugar. If I had cancer, all of my friends would be around caring for me, at least by asking how I am. But because I look great and exercise, am a wife, mother and president of the PTSA, attend church functions and socialize, people don’t remember or know that I have a disease that affects every minute of my life. —– (Diabetes Health, 23 February 2008)
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Peripheral Vascular Disease: Selecting The Right Shoes-Diabetes. This article provides very useful information on how to select and use the right kind of shoes for diabetics – crucial to avoid chronic complications that can lead to painful, debilitating, or life-threatening conditions. —– (American Chronicle, February 23, 2008)
Nation’s Spreading Waistline Means Diabetes Health Crisis. “Of the children born in America in 2000, one in three will develop diabetes in their lifetime.” “From the time you wake up today to when you wake up tomorrow, there will be almost 4,000 new cases of diabetes diagnosed”. “There will be over 600 deaths, over 200 amputations, over 100 cases of kidney failure.” says Ann Albright, Director of the Division of Diabetes Translation for the CDC. —– (Wayne Independent, Feb 22, 2008)
Study: Diabetes test may be inaccurate for some patients. “These results suggest that the nearly 200,000 diabetic hemodialysis patients in the United States who use this test may not be receiving optimal care for their blood sugar,” said Dr. Barry Freedman, the senior author of the study and a professor of internal medicine and nephrology at the medical center. —– (Winston-Salem Journal, February 20, 2008)
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Woodhaven senior’s teammates help her manage juvenile diabetes. She was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes, a devastating blow for a solid athlete at Woodhaven High School. (Key Lesson: Even young people with a healthy lifestyle can get diabetes). —– (Freep, February 17, 2008)
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Diabetes-induced dry skin. As a diabetic, if your blood glucose is high, your body loses fluid, hastening the dry skin process. Dry skin can become itchy and can crack, causing you to scratch; breaks in the skin allow germs to enter and thus cause infection. If your blood glucose is elevated, it feeds the germs and makes these infections worse.—– (Tenerife News Online, 14 Feb 2008)
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Diabetes and Depression Can Be a Fatal Mix. People with depression and diabetes were also more likely to have three or more heart disease risk factors, such as smoking, obesity, and a sedentary lifestyle, compared to people with diabetes alone. —– (Toronto Daily News, 15 Feb 2008)
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Brown rice lowers risk of diabetes. —– (The Times of India, 13 Feb 2008)
Study: Cinnamon Helps Lower Blood Sugar. —– (MSNBC, Feb. 8, 2008)
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Aggressive diabetes treatment linked to heart attacks, strokes. Experts stunned after higher death rate found among patients. —–(Toronto Star, Feb 08, 2008)
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Diabetes Symptom Checker. Find out in minutes with this simple online questionnaire if you are at risk of getting Diabetes. —– (NHS UK, 5 Feb 2008)
Pumping iron beats diabetes —– (Sunday Mail, Adelaide, 6 February 2008)
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Red meat, diet soda linked to increased risk of heart disease, diabetes —– (Food Consumer, Feb 4, 2008)
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Cutting Caffeine Could Help Control Diabetes —–(Voice of America VoA News
04 February 2008)
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Diabetes costs more than wars, Katrina —– (USA Today, February 3, 2008)
Diabetes drug and conflicts of interest. Popular diabetes drug—Rosiglitazone, sold under the brand name Avandia —– (Science News Online, 2 February 2008)
Large breasts at 20 linked to Diabetes in middle aged women—–(Scotsman,
30 January 2008)
Diabetes Risk Factors (High Blood Sugar, Hyperglycemia, Diabetes Mellitus) and diabetes drugs side effects —– (Canada.com)
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Neighborhood linked to diabetes risk factor—–(Reuters Health, 4 January 2008)
Our Important News Archives on Diabetes Risk factors in 2007 and earlier:
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New genetic risk factors for diabetes found. Scientists scanned DNA of 32,000 people in 5 countries—–(MSNBC / Associated Press, 27 April 2007)
Job burn-out ‘ups diabetes risk’ People who suffer from job burn-out may be prone to developing type 2 diabetes, research suggests—–(BBC News, 24 February 2007)
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Sleep Length May Sway Diabetes Risk—–(FoxNews, March 16, 2006)
Obesity In Middle Age Raises Heart Disease, Diabetes Risk In Older Age—–(Science Daily, January 12, 2006)
Adult weight is prime risk factor for diabetes—–(NewScientist, 06 July 2005 )
Saturated and trans fats, a risk factor for diabetes? Diets high in saturated and trans fats could be a major risk factor in the development of type 2 diabetes, say Canadian researchers.—–(Food USA, 29 June 2005)
CVD (Cardiovascular Disease) Risk Factors Predict Type 2 Diabetes—–(American Diabetes Association, January 1, 2005)
Eating at Fast-food Restaurants More than Twice Per Week is Associated with More Weight Gain and Insulin Resistance in Otherwise Healthy Young Adults—–(NIH National Institute of Health, 30 December 2004)
Hyperinsulinemia suspected risk factor: large study links colorectal cancer with diabetes—–(OB/GYN News 15 September 2004)
Got short thighs? Your diabetes risk may be high—–(ABC Science Online, 8 March 2003)
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