When a women gets temporary diabetes during pregnancy its called gestational diabetes. Doctors are now saying that the number of women getting this temporary case of diabetes during pregnancy is rising. Even worse, they now believe that the chances of a women who previous had gestational diabetes are 5 times greater to develop type 2 diabetes later in life.

The numbers are staggering, 50% of women with gestational diabetes developer type 2 diabetes in the 5 years after their pregnancy. 70% will develop type 2 diabetes in the 28 years are their pregnancy. The good news is that only 8% of pregnant women develop gestational diabetes. Those 8% tend to have a family history of diabetes, are out of shape, over weight.

What causes gestational diabetes? It occurs when the mothers glucose level is too high, the baby can get too big and have very low glucose levels are birth (aka hypoglycemia)

The thing that most doctors say will help prevent gestational diabetes, is not being overweight. they now encourage women before they get pregnant to lose weight and get in shape.

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A group of Doctors looking for new and innovative ways to better care for patients with diabetes, are starting to consider and plan for group checkins. They are looking to start with diabetes as well as high blood pressure.

These group checkins will be longer than the avg visit , from and hour and half to two hours. The extended time will allow the patients to ask the Doctor more questions, hear more tips for managing their diabetes, and get a chance to learn from other patients in addition to the doctor.

This is an important move, as over time doctors caring for patents with diabetes have less and less time to spend with the patients and teach them how to manage their disease.

We here at Diabetes insider will continue to monitor and report on this group checkin trend.

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The drug was designed to be used with exercise and diet to control type 2 diabetes in adults. The drug was born out of a partnership of Eli Lilly & Boehringer Ingelheim that was signed un January. The partnership calls for the two compaines to co-develop 5 drugs for diabetes patients.

Tradjenta is a tablet. Tradjenta was tested by the FDA and was found to be 8 different controlled studies. The studies showed Tradjenta helps with blood glucose control.

Like all medicine, Tardjenta will be packaged and distributed with an insert that details the drugs uses & possible risks and side effects.

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Recent research conducted by US experts over the factors increasing the probability of Type 2 diabetes concluded that white rice which have potential to raise diabetes risk must be replaced by brown rice or whole grains to lessen the risk factor up to one third.

According to Harvard researchers in Archives of Internal Medicine, white rice plays active role in increasing the level of blood sugar while brown rice and other whole grain foods gradually release food energy and keep the blood sugar level normal.

In a study involving almost 200,000 US people proved that those who have consumed five or more 150g servings in one week showed 17% greater risk of having diabetes as compared to those who have consumed only a cup of rice per month.

According to Dr Victoria King Diabetes UK the best way to prevent the risks of Type 2 diabetes is to consume healthy food items having low fat and low sugar ratio along with fresh fruits and vegetables.
Dr Qi Sun also added that main issue is related with the composition of food we consume. Whole grain foods are high in fibre and release energy slowly while white rice with its higher glycaemic index (GI) has greater potential to release energy more readily which results in higher level of blood sugar.

Research proved that almost 70% rice consumption in US and UK comprises white rice which must be replaced by whole grains to prevent the risk of Type 2 diabetes among rice consumers.

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Good News! With the current onslaught of diabetes across the Canada and the rest of the world – Canada’s UOIH (University of Ottawa Heart Institute) will use in hospital diabetes screening to help find diagnose people with diabetes. As you know, diabetes tends to be difficult to be detected. It is not a simple disease. In fact, diabetes is classified as a silent killer that will kill people around the world, especially in Western Hemisphere.

Let see the true record about the late diabetes detection! Based on the study that is done by UOIH (University of Ottawa Heart Institute), more than 10% heart disease patients have diabetes. Unfortunately, they do exactly not know this dangerous disease has been affected in their body.
Growth of diabetes is significant in the West, especially for women who have heart disease. If you see the fact, you will know that diabetes as a dangerous epidemic easily affects women than men. Most women die because of diabetes complications such as a heart disease. No matter the ages, diabetes makes people give up living. Moreover, diabetes medical treatment cost is quite expensive. In fact, every year price of diabetes medical treatment is increasing.

Because of these cases, UOIH creates medical invention, named screening diabetes program to detect diabetes earlier. It has beneficial purposes to diagnose diabetes and set the best treatment to overcome diabetes earlier. Therefore, there is no more late diabetes diagnose for patients. In addition, it can be used to give warning for people avoiding the bad risks of this dangerous epidemic. Furthermore, UOIH gives universal services for local and international to save people’s soul.

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Globally, the frequencies of continual and contending diseases are increasing at a frightening rate. The count shows that every year around 18 million people die due to cardiovascular diseases in which diabetes and hypertension are foremost factors. It is also said around 97 million people in our nation are obese or overweight, which causes the risk of many diseases like hypertension, diabetes, heart diseases.

In a new study by UC-Davis it shows that people with minimum wages are expected to be more obese than people with higher wages. This is a report given by Stockton Records. The whole research is done in California counties and found that socioeconomic conditions of the family, rate of obesity and diabetes are interconnected.

Two counties of California were taken under consideration, first was San Joaquin County and the other was Marin County. According to a survey in 2005 by California Health Interview, it shows that around 70% of adults are overweight in San Joaquin County. This has made this county the heaviest County in California. Even this County has the highest death rate of Diabetic patients with around 35 deaths per 100,000 residents. Also this County has the lowest average income as compared to the other Counties.

Rather in comparison with the other County i.e. Marin County, the rate of Obesity and Diabetes is much lower than San Joaquin County. The average income and level of education is much higher in this County. Only 44% of Adults are Obese or overweight in this County and even the death rate of Diabetic patients are less than 10 per 100,000 residents.

San Joaquin County is effectively working to recover from Diabetes and its obesity rate with an Obesity and Chronic Disease Prevention Task Force; this was launched in August 2009.

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A recent study conducted by Kari Hemminki of DKFZ (German Cancer Research Center) over the possible factor of various types of cancers and its link with Type 2 Diabetes. This detailed study revealed that people suffering from Types 2 diabetes are prone to develop cancer as compared to rest of the population. Types 2 diabetes is reported to increase the probability of 24 types of cancer incidence particularly the liver cancer and pancreatic cancer. But on the other hand the lower risk of prostrate cancer was also proved through this long term research.

In order to get more concise and solid evidences in proving the link between Type 2 diabetes and cancer incidence, Kari Hemminki undertook a detailed study in Sweden and United States involving 125,126 cases of Swedish citizens. These patients were hospitalized to treat for their diabetic problems. When their cases are analyzed in detailed it was concluded that they have much higher risk of developing one of the 24 types of cancer as compared to general population. Kari asserted that these are speculations about the relation between cancer incidence and Type 2 diabetes that are revealing the involvement of lower level of male sex hormone in diabetics to enhance the tendency of developing cancer as well.

In all these cases of Type 2 diabetes the risk for developing liver cancer is much higher as compared to cancers of kidneys, small intestine, thyroid and esophagus etc. Swedish National Family Cancer Database is responsible for registering all cases of cancer disease occurred in Sweden since 1985, but to have more detailed study the data from every hospital is also added individually with complete record of cancer cases registered from 1964 to 2007.

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Though long term research have concluded that there is a link between diabetes and patient’s life style including his eating habits but another factor which attracted the attention of researches is family history of a patient. For this purpose Australian researchers have taken the first step towards exploring the link between diabetes and genetic factor.

During this unusual experimentation process total 41 females and males have participated voluntarily. Almost half of them have family history of Type 2 diabetes and rest was from healthy family background. In this experiment all participants were asked to take 1,250 calories daily extra than the actual need of their body. This process has taken four weeks and in the end all of them were reported to put on weight and have shown the clear signs of insulin resistance in them. This outcome was expecting but what happened unusual in that experimentation was an extra weight gain of those participants already having family history of Type 2 diabetes. These males and females put on 7.5 pounds which is really greater than 4.8 pounds put on by rest of the participants.

Not only the extra weight gain but more insulin resistance was found in these participants with family history of diabetes. So in both aspects weight gain and insulin resistance, family history proves its link to diabetes obviously.

According to this detailed study published in journal Diabetologia by Leonie K. Heilbronn, an associate professor of nutritional physiology at University of Adelaide (Australia), Type 2 diabetes involves both factors environmental and genetic. So this study is alarming news for them already having family history of Type 2 diabetes that they must be over conscious about their eating habits because they are more likely to develop this disease as compared to rest of the population.

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This is good news for people with diabetes. Recently, it was found that treatment for dental might lower blood sugar. It surely helps people with diabetes to reduce their blood sugar level without drugs. The research was announced on international Cochrane Collaboration as a part of it. The research was involving a scientist from UCL Eastman Dental Institute, Peninsula Dental School, and Ottawa University.

Well, it is surprising news but scientists in Edinburgh University have confirmed the study. They analyze when gum inflammation causing by bacteria occur, blood sugar in people with diabetes also rising. It because bacteria release some chemical that lessens the efficiency of insulin when infect gum.

When you go to a dentist to treat your teeth or gum, they will use some medicine or drugs to reduce inflammation on your gum. Reduce inflammation means to clean your mouth from bacteria and its chemical. This will shrink blood sugar level in people with diabetes, although the percentage is not big.

It makes a new gate between doctors and dentists to collaborate observing this discovery to find a more effective diabetes cure. The leader of the team, Dr Terry Simpson assumes that diabetes and serious gum disease may be linked. Therefore, it really helps for people with diabetes to treat their disease by maintaining good dental health. It is also keep control their blood sugar by using insulin, drugs or medicine, and diet plan, which is the basic treatment for diabetic.

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Owing to the increasing rate of diabetic patients in the country, the Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad announced the launching of an effective diabetes control program to put a halt to this rising misery of general population of India. Mr. Azad was addressing the inaugurating ceremony of health camp organized by Congress MP on Friday.

At the inauguration ceremony he admitted the alarming condition of increasing diabetic patients and vowed to give an equal opportunity to all Indians, from all walks of life, to be diagnosed for the presence of this distressing disease of diabetes. He announced that in next couple of years this campaign will be organized throughout the country to defeat the menace of diabetes in general masses.

Moreover he also deplored the continuous negligence on this particular aspect of health care while emphasizing upon the need for greater impetus to maintain proper health care facilities. He also added that if no concrete step is taken in this matter to halt the continuous diabetes spread then this negligence could result in making India an international hub of diabetes in coming years.

Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad also criticized upon funneling huge capital in making roads, buildings and other infrastructure while missing the most important aspect of human life deliberately. Health care is the most important but unfortunately is the most neglected area of ongoing developmental progress in India. Therefore he pointed towards the importance of real welfare and proper healthcare of general masses for which the whole infrastructure is going to be built.

At that moment, Chief Minister Ashok Chavan also added that in this proposed diabetic control program people living below the poverty line would be treated free of cost and the cost for major illnesses like cancer or kidney diseases would be maintained up to Rs. 2.5 lacs by making required provisions in state financial budget.

During this three-day health care camp almost more than 50,000 patients are expected to be treated for serious ailments if cancer, cardiovascular problems and dental disorders etc.

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CVS Pharmacy, a sister concern of CVS Caremark Corporation which is dedicated and committed to improve the lives of people by making inventive, modern and high quality medicines. CVS Pharmacy provides a huge range of affordable drugs which are easy to access in stores and online on their website at cvs.com.

In a country like USA where around 24 million people are affected with Diabetes, CVS Pharmacy has come up with a new program called ExtraCare advantage for Diabetic Patients. As the cost which is correlated to control diabetes is quite high, this program has been designed in such a way that it will provide rewards and savings on the purchase of diabetes related products in addition to wellness education benefits.

Chief Medical Officer of CVS Caremark Dr. Troven A. Brennan said “With 25% of the US population affected by this disease, we understand how important it is for patients and caregivers to manage costs related to controlling diabetes”. He even said that “The ExtraCare Advantage for Diabetes program is designed to help customers with diabetes or caring for someone with the disease, to manage these rising healthcare costs.” It is projected that the people affected by Diabetes spend two to three times more on medical expenses and provisions.

ExtraCare is the medium with which they deliver personalization and savings to CVS pharmacy customers. It is best way to initiate a health and wellness module offering extra benefits for the Americans living with diabetes. Members get the opportunity to sign up for ExtraCare Advantage for Diabetes and earn double Extra Bucks on more than 100 products used to manage diabetes. Even a monthly e-newsletter has been initiated which includes further savings and tips on managing diabetes. In all ways CVS Pharmacy offers a healthy lifestyle to their members.

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Dr. David Juurlink, the chief of clinical pharmacology and toxicology at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center (in Toronto) has urgred FDA to halt the continuing drug trial for diabetes drug rosiglitazone (aka Avandia) as resaerch has proved it as a factor enhancing the proability of cardiovascular diseases in users 30% more than its predecessor pioglitazone (Actos) used in treating diatetes.

Earlier in 2007, FDA issued a couple of warning letter to Avandia drug makers ‘GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)’ to print ‘black box’ wranings on patient’s instruction sheet to inform him the potential side effcte of medicaine regarding heart problems. GSK was also asked to conduct safety trail marketing campaign for public awareness in 14 developed conutries along with newly included developing countries like Pakistan, India, Chile nad Maxico etc.

The subject of Juurlink and Public Citizen call was ‘Thiazolidinedione Intervention in Vitamin D Evaluation’ in which both drugs were tagged for safety concrens. Moreover Thiazolidinediones, Type 2 diabetes drug, is also held responsible for rising the level of several physiological problems like bony fractures, anemia, liver injury and edema etc other than cardiovascular issues, while previous diabetes like metformin and sulfonylurea have proved much more safer way of treament comparatively.

Despite the evident potential side effects of diabetes drug, the strong financial ties among drug producing companies and clinicians and researchers has urged them to defend the drug against growing saftey concrens. Juurlink and Wolfe are expecting more relaible evidence about the safety issues of Avandia as compared to those concluded as a result of ongoing research.

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Have you ever thought about treating diabetes in a week with no insulin injection at all; absolutely not? But now it is possible through an amazing and major scientific breakthrough in which a drug named Otelixizumab can halt the symptoms of Type 1 diabetes within only six days if taken daily, according to the Daily Mail.

It will be really astonishing fact for all readers particularly for those who are suffering from the pain of taking insulin periodically to combat against their diabetes. But this has become a reality which can be easily understood by knowing logical treatment method used in this drug. Actually Otelixizumab is specifically designed to attack and lock through cells of immune system which caused self destructive activity inside human body and prevent pancreatic insulin producing cells to carry on their normal function. This self attacking mechanism results in lower production of insulin which eventually leads towards Type 1 Diabetes. This drug ‘Otelixizumab’ contains special antibody which attacks these T effectors destructive cells of immune system and keep them from disturbing insulin producing cells present in pancreas. This thing ensures the insulin production up to the required level of human body.

Moreover the findings published in Diabetologia about the amazing invention of Otelixizumab proves that this drug almost halt of at least reduces the need for taking insulin injections in those patients who are newly diagnosed for having Type 1 diabetes. Therefore if someone is diagnosed for Type 1 diabetes and is given daily dosage of Otelixizumab drug then it will be possible to treat his diabetic problem only within 6 days.

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Diabetes is a dangerous disease and need the best and intensive medicine. Because this dangerous disease can lead patients to get chronic complications if there is no accurate and intensive medical treatment. Have you ever heard about Avandia? At the first time, this medicine is trusted to heal diabetes. However, nowadays, many researchers such as Canadian researchers and Dr. Sidney Wolfe of Public Citizen’s Health Research Group stated that Avandia gives bad risk for diabetes patients. Avandia may lead people to get heart attack or heart failure.

There is more evidence in many places, which show the bad risk of using Avandia for patients. The US FDA (Food and Drugs Administration) request The GlaxoSmithKline Plc to test the long-term risk of Avandia for patients. Furthermore, the test shows that Avandia totally gives bad risk of heart failure. According to this fact, US concluded that Avandia must have been stopping in many drug stores. The side effects are dangerous for diabetes patients. In addition, FDA gives strong warning by putting a black box warning on Avandia. In addition, the New England Journal of Medicine that studied that Avandia gives 43% heart attack risk to patients in 2007.

Doctors do not want to take bad risks by using Avandia as a major diabetes medicine after the fact is detecting. The safety of diabetes patients must be cared to avoid bad complications and lead them to death. It is better for you to know exactly what the best diabetes medicine that will not lead you to get bad risk is. Share and talk with your doctor intensively. Make sure that you always search the up to date information about diabetes drugs in many sources. Pay attention to your health.

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After rejecting the approval application of diabetes drug ‘Bydureon’ in March 2010, FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has now decided to reconsider it, Alkermes Inc reported. This thing will provide ‘Bydureon’ another chance of getting approved by FDA to be used as reliable and useful drug in treating distressing disease of diabetes.

The approval application was actually submitted to Food and Drug Administration, US in May 2009 which was rejected earlier this year to demand more factual data about the potential benefits of ‘Bydureon’ drug for treating diabetes. For this purpose FDA has issued a letter to Alkermes Inc. in which it requested to provide particular data to prove the credibility of this newly produced diabetes drug ‘Bydureon’.

‘Bydureon’ is long acting form of ‘Byetta’ which is another drug used to treat acute pancreatitis but strictly avoided in case of severe kidney problems because of its fatal nature. This precaution is printed as drug label to prevent its fatal effects in kidney patients. ‘Bydureon’ is a co-production of Cambridge, Mass.-based Alkermes, Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly & Co. and San Diego-based Amylin Pharmaceuticals.

The next decision date given by FDA for drug approval is October 22, 2010 so till that day Alkermes has to wait and see that whether the requested data provided to FDA about the effectiveness of potential diabetes drug is enough to get it approved or not.

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