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Controlling Blood Sugar May Lead to Fewer “Senior Moments” Controlling Blood Sugar May Lead to Fewer “Senior Moments”

They start in your forties as periodic mental hiccups where you suddenly lose the thread of a thought. By your fifties, they happen often enough to make you jokingly introduce the phase "senior moment" to your vocabulary. And by the time you enter your sixties, there's not a lot of humor in them any more. Senior moments become an often exasperating stall in conversations and thought.

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Metabolic Syndrome Could Be Kidney Disease Precursor in Type 2s Metabolic Syndrome Could Be Kidney Disease Precursor in Type 2s

Researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong report that having metabolic syndrome may raise the risk of chronic kidney disease in people with type 2 diabetes.

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Type 1.5 Diabetes Type 1.5 Diabetes

Type 1.5 diabetes, also known as Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults (LADA), is an autoimmune disease that falls between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes because it has characteristics of both. 

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Correct Use of Compression Stockings Is Vitally Important Correct Use of Compression Stockings Is Vitally Important

A study published in the September American Journal of Nursing (AJN) indicates that graduated compression stockings were used incorrectly in 29 percent of the patients and sized incorrectly in 26 percent of the patients. Compression stockings play an important role in preventing the formation of deep vein clots that can result in pulmonary complications and death

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Has Anyone Else Reversed Diabetes Complications? If You Have, I Want to Hear From You! Has Anyone Else Reversed Diabetes Complications? If You Have, I Want to Hear From You!

Are you a scientific anomaly like me?  Have you or someone you know reversed the complications associated with diabetes? Did you suffer microvascular and macrovascular damage during the “growing pains” of coming to terms with having no choice but to live your life with diabetes? Then, did you turn around and find love and hope, which made you change your life? And after changing it, did you find after several years that you were healing the damage that you had incurred by your own misguided hand? 

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Pain in Your Feet? Try These Proven Techniques for Soothing Them Pain in Your Feet? Try These Proven Techniques for Soothing Them

One of the more common and early complications of diabetes is nerve pain or peripheral neuropathy. Symptoms are tingling, pain or numbness in the legs and feet, sometimes in arms and hands.

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Mind-Shifting: A Valuable Tool To Control Diabetes Mind-Shifting: A Valuable Tool To Control Diabetes

The day I heard "Diabetes is not the leading cause of heart attack, blindness, kidney disease, and amputation," my life changed. I had believed the opposite to be true for the 32 years I'd been dealing with diabetes. Complications had always hung like a knife over my head. 

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Women Have Double the Fracture Risk with Avandia and Actos Women Have Double the Fracture Risk with Avandia and Actos

Avandia (rosiglitazone) and Actos (pioglitazone), two medications used to lower blood sugar in type 2 patients, double the risk of fractures in women, but not in men, says a new study.

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FDA Asks Diabetes Drug Makers To Study Their Medicines’ Potential Heart Risks FDA Asks Diabetes Drug Makers To Study Their Medicines’ Potential Heart Risks

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has recommended that companies manufacturing diabetes treatment drugs provide evidence that their products will not increase cardiovascular risks.

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Finn Researchers Find That Early Childhood Metabolic Disturbances Predict Later Onset of Type 1 Finn Researchers Find That Early Childhood Metabolic Disturbances Predict Later Onset of Type 1

Finnish scientists have reported that children who develop type 1 diabetes experience disturbances in their lipid and amino acid metabolism months or years before the onset of the disease. Their finding of distinct markers that precede the disease could lead to treatments designed to prevent the body's autoimmune system from attacking the pancreatic insulin-producing cells.

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