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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Tata group company Advinus Therapeutics has completed initial trials of a new molecule to treat type II diabetes and is in talks with a few global drugmakers to outlicense the molecule, a top company executive said.

The privately held company has sought the Indian drug regulator’s nod to go ahead with the phase II (a) trial of its molecules in multiple dosages, which essentially means trying it out on a larger number of patients and healthy individuals.

If the molecule is commercialised it could have a significantly higher efficacy and safety profile over the existing drugs available in market to treat the diabetes in the market, Rashmi Barbhaiya, CEO and managing director, Advinus Therapeutics said.

About Advinus: Advinus Therapeutics (a TATA enterprise is an integrated R &D organization that is focused on the new drug discovery and development of pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals. The company is the first of its kind in India to offer end to end development services to the global pharma, agro and biotech industry while creating long term value through internal and collaborative Drug Discovery. Advinus operations are organized into two separate business centered on Discovery (Pune-India) and Development (Bangalore-India) respectively. Advinus has over 450 professionals more than 60% being Masters and Ph D degree holders.

via: indiatimes.com

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The majority of people with diabetes who had bariatric surgery to lose weight were able to stop taking their diabetes medications, which led to a significant decline in health-care costs, according to a study released Monday.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, looked at 2,235 adults who had the stomach-reducing surgery and who also had Type 2 diabetes, a common form of the disease often associated with weight gain. Six months after surgery, nearly 75% of patients had eliminated their diabetes medications and after two years 84.5% of patients were off medicine.

The study, published in this month’s Archives of Surgery, a Journal of the American Medical Association publication, was funded by the Department of Health and Human Services.

Many patients were able to stop taking their medications almost immediately after surgery and before they’d lost large amounts of weight, backing theories that stomach hormones altered by surgery are better able to control blood glucose levels than weight loss alone.

“Until a successful nonsurgical means for preventing and reversing obesity is developed, bariatric surgery appears to be the only intervention that can result in a sustained reversal of both obesity and Type 2 diabetes in most patients receiving it,” said, Martin Makary, the study’s lead researcher and an associate professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Dr. Makary said the majority of patients were able to stop taking other types of medications, such as high-blood pressure pills.

About 86% of the patients, who were covered by Blue Cross and Blue Shield insurance, were on at least one diabetes medication before surgery, with an average of 4.4 medications per patient. About 23% of patients were on insulin.

via WSJ

written by Jenifer Corbet Doren

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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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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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