Tag Archives: blood sugar

+Heart Disease | February 29, 2012

FDA Warns Statin Users of Memory Loss and Diabetes Risks

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) added new safety warnings to cholesterol-reducing statin drugs on Wednesday, noting increased risks of Type 2 diabetes and memory loss for patients who take the medications.

+Exercise | August 2, 2011

Gains in Muscle Mass, Not Just Weight Loss, May Help Lower Diabetes Risk

By Meredith Melnick

Lose weight. That’s often the first advice from doctors to their pre-diabetic patients. But while losing excess fat can help reverse Type 2 diabetes risk factors like insulin resistance and high blood-sugar levels, a new study finds that increasing muscle mass may also help lower risk of the metabolic disease.

+Quotes | May 19, 2011

“It's like a decade-long nightmare coming to an end.”

—DR. STEVEN NISSEN, Cleveland Clinic cardiologist, on the FDA's plan to restrict patient access to Avandia, a diabetes drug that was approved in 1999 and has long been known to increase the risk of heart attack in users. The program, which takes effect in Nov., will limit Avandia to patients who have already been treated [...]

+Exercise | November 26, 2010

Prescription for Type 2 Diabetes: Cardio Plus Weights

By Meredith Melnick

Diet and exercise is the mantra for good health in any population, not least in patients with Type 2 diabetes.

+Diabetes | June 4, 2010

A “tattoo” to help monitor blood sugar levels?

By Tiffany O'Callaghan

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are taking preliminary steps toward developing a “tattoo” that could enable diabetics to constantly monitor blood sugar levels — without having to routinely change equipment or perform routine finger pricks to test blood. The experimental technology being developed by MIT postdoctoral researcher Paul Barone and chemical engineering professor [...]

+Tobacco | March 23, 2010

Four risk factors reducing U.S. life expectancy

By Tiffany O'Callaghan

A new study from researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington suggests that four preventable risk factors—high blood pressure, smoking, high blood sugar and overweight/obesity—are significantly reducing life expectancy across the U.S. In the new study, published this week in the [...]

+Women's Health | February 26, 2010

Assessing gestational diabetes risks—for mom and baby

By Tiffany O'Callaghan

Previous diagnostic criteria for gestational diabetes were based on the risk, posed by high blood sugar levels, that pregnant women faced for developing diabetes after giving birth. And, under those criteria, rates of gestational diabetes have surged nearly 50% in the past decade, with 5% to 8% of pregnant women being diagnosed with the condition. [...]

+Psychology | January 27, 2010

Low blood sugar? You may opt for instant gratification

By Tiffany O'Callaghan

Beyond making you cranky and impatient, it turns out that being hungry—or more specifically, having low blood sugar—may actually change the way that you make decisions. In a new study published in the journal Psychological Science, University of South Dakota researchers X.T. Wang and Robert D. Dvorak found that people with lower blood sugar levels [...]