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Resveratrol in grape skins could stop diabetic complications such as heart disease, retinopathy and nephropathy, research findsResearch carried out by scientists at the Peninsula Medical School in the South West of England has found that resveratrol, a compound present naturally in grape skin, can protect against the cellular damage to blood vessels caused by high production of glucose in diabetes, according to a paper published in the science journal "Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism" this...

By Lotfy, M; Badra, G; Burham, W; Alenzi, F Q Diabetes mellitus is a group of diseases characterised by high levels of blood glucose resulting from defects in insulin production, insulin action, or both. Diabetes can be associated with serious complications including diabetic foot disease. Diabetic foot disease is estimated to affect 15% of people with diabetes.1 Wound healing is a process that involves inflammation, proliferation/regeneration and finally remodeling. The normal orderly...

By David Douglas NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For people with type 1 diabetes who aim to keep their blood sugar levels under tight control, nighttime can bring the problem of sugar levels dropping too low -- which can lead to mental confusion or even seizures. None of the available remedies, however, are ideal, researchers say. Bedtime snacks are not a reliable method of preventing nocturnal hypoglycemia, as the condition is called, and drug treatment has shortcomings, according to a...

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Poor control of blood sugar may be a much bigger health risk factor than most people realize, experts told a meeting on Monday. One study predicted that half of all Americans will develop a condition known as insulin resistance, a type of pre-diabetes that puts them at high risk of heart attacks, and another showed that high blood sugar alone made hospital patients much more likely to die of other conditions. The...

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Diabetes is a "strong" risk factor for sudden cardiac death, with the risk increasing with the severity of the disease, according to a study published in the European Heart Journal."The prevalence of diabetes mellitus in industrialized countries is rapidly increasing, and diabetes is suspected to carry a particularly high risk for sudden cardiac death," Dr. Xavier Jouven, of Universite Paris-5, France, and colleagues write.The researchers...

NEW YORK/ATLANTA, October 24, 2005 "“ An anesthesiology research team at Columbia University Medical Center have completed the first human study to show that aprotinin, a protease inhibitor, was associated with lower blood glucose levels during coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. The research presented today at the American Society of Anesthesiologists 2005 Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Ga., showed that CABG patients receiving aprotinin had 24 percent lower blood glucose levels and a...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Episodes of extremely low blood sugar (hypoglycemia), particularly at an early age, can have an impact on spatial memory performance in children with type 1 diabetes, according to the results of a new study. As lead investigator Dr. Tamara Hershey told Reuters Health, "this study tests and supports a common hypothesis that severe hypoglycemia experienced early in life is riskier for cognitive function than severe hypoglycemia experienced later in life. We...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Abbott Laboratories Inc. on Friday said it is notifying U.S. users of its blood glucose meters to make sure the device is displaying the correct unit of measure each time they test. The company said it has received consumer complaints that in the course of setting the time and date for their meters, users have inadvertently changed the units of measure from milligrams per deciliter to millimoles per liter. The mistake could lead to misinterpretation of test...

COLUMBUS , Ohio "“ Oral medications may control symptoms of Type II diabetes in children just as well as insulin injections, a new study reports.According to the medical records of 26 children diagnosed with the disease, oral medications reduced levels of a compound in the blood called hemoglobin A1C by an average of 2 percentage points.A 2-percentage-point reduction is enough to decrease serious health risks and symptoms associated with Type II diabetes, said Milap Nahata, the study's...