Tag: Type 2 Diabetes

Exercise May Treat Long COVID-Induced Diabetes, Depression

March 11, 2022
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Baton Rouge, LA – While no medically recognized treatment exists for Long COVID, exercise may break the vicious cycle of inflammation that can lead to developing diabetes and depression months after...

Researchers Investigate How Opioid Use Affects Offspring in Rats

March 1, 2022
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Medford, MA — New research from scientists at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University suggests opioid use before pregnancy—even if not used during pregnancy itself—could result in...

Important Step Towards Fasting-Based Therapies

February 8, 2022
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Oberschleißheim, Germany — Previous studies have shown how fasting can influence the immune system to improve different chronic inflammatory conditions, but little is known about how immune responses...

Scientists Unveil Promising New Approach to Diabetes Prevention

February 2, 2022
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La Jolla, CA — A team of scientists from Scripps Research has conducted promising early tests of a new strategy that might one day be used to prevent or treat type 2 diabetes. The scientists, whose...

The Unexpected Benefits of Fat in Type 2 Diabetes

January 12, 2022
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Geneva, Switzerland — With nearly 10% of the world’s population affected, type 2 diabetes is a major public health issue. An excessively sedentary lifestyle and a too-caloric diet encourage the development...

Experimental Compound Counters Diabetic Complications

November 26, 2021
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New York, NY — An experimental compound reduced complications of type 1 and type 2 diabetes in mice – not by lowering blood sugar – but by countering its consequences: cell death, inflammation, and...

New Research Proves Diet can Put Type 2 Diabetes into Remission

September 13, 2021
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Kelowna, BC — A change in diet is proving to be a key tool in the reversal of Type 2 diabetes. A team of researchers from the University of British Columbia and England’s Teesside University have...

Giving Brown Fat a Boost to Fight Type 2 Diabetes

June 8, 2021
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Dallas, TX — Increasing a protein concentrated in brown fat appears to lower blood sugar, promote insulin sensitivity, and protect against fatty liver disease by remodelling white fat to a healthier...

Efficient, Systematic Genetic Analysis Helps Dissect Disease Inheritance

February 25, 2021
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Hong Kong, China — Many genetic variants have been found to have a linkage with genetic diseases, but the understanding of their functional roles in causing diseases are still limited. An international...

Researchers have Broken the Code for Cell Communication

February 15, 2021
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Gothenburg, Sweden — Knowledge on how cells communicate is an important key to understanding many biological systems and diseases. A research team led by researchers at the University of Gothenburg...

The Brain can Induce Diabetes Remission in Rodents, but How?

September 8, 2020
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Seattle, WA — In rodents with type 2 diabetes, a single surgical injection of a protein called fibroblast growth factor 1 can restore blood sugar levels to normal for weeks or months. Yet how this...

Diabetes-in-a-Dish Model Uncovers New Insights into the Cause of Type 2 Diabetes

September 3, 2020
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Boston, MA — Using cells taken from patients with type 2 diabetes and new techniques to convert them into specialized precursors of muscle cells, researchers have developed a novel ‘disease-in-a-dish’...

COVID-19 May Impact Treatment for Patients With Type 2 Diabetes

April 15, 2020
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Washington, DC — Individuals with diabetes are at increased risk for bacterial, parasitic and viral infections. New research published in Endocrine Reviews, a journal of the Endocrine Society, illuminates...

Researcher Finds Keto Diet Works Best in Small Doses

January 29, 2020
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New Haven CT — A ketogenic diet — which provides 99% of calories from fat and only 1% from carbohydrates — produces health benefits in the short term, but negative effects after about a...

Scientists Discover New Way to Promote Insulin Production in Pre-Diabetes Phase

November 19, 2019
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Singapore — Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) scientists have discovered that a type of immune cell known as ‘pancreatic islet macrophages’ is capable of promoting...

Researchers Find New Potential Approach to Type 2 Diabetes Treatment

November 11, 2019
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New York, NY — The protein adipsin, which is produced in body fat, helps protect insulin-secreting cells called pancreatic beta cells from destruction in type 2 diabetes, according to a new study by...

Obesity Exacerbates Many Causes of Death, but Risks Are Different for Men and Women

October 25, 2019
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Cambridge, UK — People who carry around unhealthy amounts of weight don’t just have heart disease and diabetes to worry about. Obesity is implicated in two thirds of the leading causes of death...

Discovery Enables Clear Identification of Diseased Beta Cells in Type 2 Diabetes

October 1, 2019
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Boston, MA — Researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, have unlocked the key to clearly identifying diseased beta cells in type 2 diabetes. This discovery has both...

Type 2 Diabetes is Not Just About Insulin

September 12, 2019
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Geneva, Switzerland — In Switzerland, more than 400,000 people suffer from type 2 diabetes, a serious metabolic disorder that is constantly increasing. Obesity, by promoting the resistance to the action...

Meaningful Ptsd Symptom Decrease May Lower Type 2 Diabetes Risk, Says Study

August 21, 2019
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St. Louis, MO — Research from Saint Louis University finds treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) that leads to an improvement in symptoms was associated with a 49 percent lower risk...

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