News from May 2011

Diabetes Mellitus: The Causes Know it to Check it

Diabetics generally died within one year of contracting diabetes till the 1920s. A big change came about in 1922. A team of medical scientists, at the University of Toronto in Canada, discovered that the hormone insulin can control the symptoms of diabetes. This finding was a momentous one as it allowed people with diabetes to [...]

Diabetes and the Digestive Process

Diabetes Mellitus occurs due to the malfunctioning of the pancreas which produces insulin. This hormone controls glucose or sugar in the body. Glucose is the source of power or fuel to carry out many life-sustaining activities of the cells, termed metabolism. Ineffective metabolism affects the digestive process. Let’s have a look at the digestive process [...]

Diabetes Mellitus: Know it to Check it (Part – I)

In Canada, more than 2.2 million residents (seven percent of the population) have diabetes mellitus, and more than 25,000 deaths are due to this disease every year. The scenario is even more serious in the USA. Diabetes mellitus is the seventh leading cause of all deaths and the sixth leading cause of all deaths caused [...]

Keep your liver healthy & Tackle Diabetes

Diabetics must be alert to keep liver complicacies at bay. A research carried out by Edinburgh doctors has found connections between liver ailments and diabetes. Diabetics are prone to develop liver ailments; their risk being 70 per cent higher than their counterparts who aren’t suffering from that life-long ailment called diabetes. Diabetes can complicate to [...]

American Indians: Federal Plan to Check Diabetes

The rate at which American Indians are becoming diabetic has been a cause of major concern. Even as federal measures are under way to address this critical health issue, a mega survey is on to take stock of America’s health and the masses’ use of nation’s health services. The latest results are expected in June, [...]

Weight-loss surgeries: Key to Control Diabetes, Heart Ailments

A new obesity control treatment has come with a double bonus. Here’s the panacea for two deadly ailments – diabetes and cardiovascular issues. Just go for a weight-loss surgery like the gastric bypass. Your blood sugar level will be normalized. What’s more, the risk of you contracting any heart disease will be reduced. The operation [...]

Diabetics: Beware of fatal liver ailments

Diabetics and fatal liver ailments have a connection. Latest medical researches into the connections between the two have found that 70 percent of diabetics are likely to fall prey to fatal liver diseases – like cancer and cirrhosis – than the non-diabetics. Cirrhosis is also known as scarring of the liver. The failure of the [...]

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Diabetes Mellitus Complications: Know it to Check it

Many life-threatening complications may result if diabetes mellitus is not treated at the initial stages. In both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, the complications can be heart disease, kidney failure, and blindness. Type 1 diabetes can degenerate into diabetic coma or even cause death. Diabetic coma refers to a state of unconsciousness caused by [...]