Nuts can keep diabetics’ heart healthy
Eating a handful of nuts daily, particularly tree nuts, may reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease among people with Type-2 diabetes, associated with an increased risk for high cholesterol, heart...
View ArticleNew device to make glucose monitoring ‘painless’ for diabetics
Researchers have designed a microneedle patch for people with diabetes to enable them to monitor their glucose levels throughout the day in a “painless” manner. Continuous monitoring is a way to...
View ArticleAlcohol intake may cause weight loss in diabetics
Regular consumption of alcohol may lead to long-term weight loss in people with diabetes, say researchers. The study, led by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, showed that losing weight...
View ArticleType 2 diabetes may be an indication of pancreatic cancer
Turns out, a recent-onset type 2 diabetes may be early expression of pancreatic cancer. A new study published by Oxford University Press indicated that the recent-onset diabetes was associated with a...
View ArticlePlant-based diets can help diabetes patients: Study
Plant-based diets can be beneficial for diabetes as a new study has found that it may improve glycemic control, cholesterol and lead to weight loss in people with Type 2 diabetes. The researchers...
View ArticleNutrition education improves diabetes
According to a recent study, certain diet changes and proper intake of nutrition can make a huge difference to the body of diabetics. According to the study conducted by the researchers from Physicians...
View ArticlePain-free skin patch to automate diabetes management
There is good news for diabetics as researchers have developed a pain-free skin patch containing dissolvable compounds that responds to blood chemistry to manage glucose automatically. For millions of...
View ArticleType-1 diabetes not just a ‘disease of childhood’: Study
Dispelling common misconception that Type-1 diabetes is predominantly a “disease of childhood”, a new study says that adults are as likely to develop the condition as children. More than 40 per cent of...
View ArticleFighting Fit: Diabetic Women Fight Back!
Women, in every part of the world, are often the primary caregivers in families. In a country like India, this is true for women from both urban and rural areas. Women play a key role in taking care of...
View ArticleRSSDI launches India’s first toll free diabetes helpline
Research Society for the Study of Diabetes in India (RSSDI) today announced the launch of DiaHELP– a toll free diabetes helpline service to aid millions of diabetic patients and their caregivers to get...
View ArticleA Smart Move towards a Personalized Diabetes Care
By Haneen Raihana We, Indians, seem lethargic when it comes to handling a familiar metabolic disorder, that might turn fatal – Diabetes. This disorder has always been the talk of the town, due to its...
View ArticleHigh Vitamin D levels in childhood may cut diabetes risk
Children who receive higher levels of Vitamin D during infancy and childhood may be significantly at a lower risk of developing islet autoimmunity as well as Type 1 diabetes, according to a study. Type...
View ArticleSleep tied to Type 2 diabetes risk in children
Children who get more sleep are at lower risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, a study published in a US journal has said. For adults, getting too much or not enough sleep both have been linked with...
View ArticlePoor sleep may make you fat, raise diabetes risk
Are you deprived of proper sleep at night? Beware, you are more likely to be overweight and also at risk of developing diabetes, a new study has warned. The findings showed that people who were...
View ArticleBeware! Consuming artificial sweeteners may up risk of diabetes
Beware! Artificial sweeteners may be linked to long-term weight gain and thereby increase the risk of obesity, diabetes and heart disease, warns a study. A sugar substitute is a food additive that...
View ArticleExtra weight gain affects your DNA
The extra kilos you gain during the holidays would not only show up on your hips but could also affect your DNA, leading to changes in the expression of inflammatory genes, results of a large-scale...
View ArticleMaternal diabetes may up health risks in babies
Babies born to mothers with gestational diabetes (which develops during pregnancy) or pre-gestational diabetes (prior to pregnancy) may be at an increased risk of developing malformations, abnormal...
View ArticleDiabetes ups risk of heart attack deaths: Study
Individuals suffering from diabetes are at nearly 50 per cent increased risk of dying from the effects of a heart attack, a new study has found. “The results provide robust evidence that diabetes is a...
View ArticleHow to manage diabetes during fasting
Diabetic patients who fast during Ramadan are likely to be at risk of major health complications. Hence they should fast only if their doctors consider them fit enough, experts say. The month-long...
View ArticleHow germs can cause type-1 diabetes
Germs could play a role in the development of Type-1 diabetes by triggering the body’s immune system to destroy the cells that produce insulin, suggests new research. Type-1 diabetes is a very serious...
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