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Topic: Diabetes

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  • Vitamin B Deficiency In Pregnant Mothers Linked To Diabetes
    posted on 11/23/07 by
    Babies whose mothers do not get enough essential B vitamins around the time of conception could be more at risk of Type 2 diabetes.A study of female sheep showed that reducing their intake of B12 and folate (a form of vitamin B9) before pregnancy produced major physical effects in their offspring.At only two years of age, the sheep showed signs of insulin resistance and were 25 per cent fatter than normal with higher blood pressure. [click link for full article]

  • World Diabetes Day and Gestational Diabetes (GD)
    posted on 11/14/07 by
    Today is World Diabetes Day. A day to take a few minutes to learn about diabetes and what it means in your life from risk factors to daily living. In...

  • Maternal diabetes adversely affects amp-activated protein kinase activity and cellular metabolism in murine oocytes
    posted on 11/07/07 by
    Maternal diabetes is associated with an increased risk of miscarriages and congenital anomalies. Preovulatory oocytes in murine models also experience maturational delay and greater granulosa cell apoptosis. The objective of this study was to examine whether maternal diabetes influences preovulatory oocyte metabolism and impacts meiotic maturation. Streptozotocin-induced diabetic B6SJLF1 mice were superovulated, and oocytes were collected at 0, 2, and 6 h after human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG)

  • Light Shed On Black Box Of Gestational Diabetes
    posted on 11/05/07 by
    A protein in the pancreas is giving researchers a chance at cracking the code that determines how diabetes develops during pregnancy, a finding that could lead to new treatments for all forms of diabetes.

  • Gestational Diabetes And Menin Regulation Linked In Study By Stanford Researchers
    posted on 11/02/07 by
    A protein in the pancreas is giving researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine their first chance at cracking the code that determines how diabetes develops during pregnancy, a finding that could lead to new treatments for all forms of diabetes.The study may help explain why roughly 5 percent of women develop diabetes temporarily while pregnant, a condition called gestational diabetes. [click link for full article]

  • Pancreas May Be Key to Pregnancy-Linked Diabetes (HealthDay)
    posted on 11/01/07 by
    HealthDay - THURSDAY, Nov. 1 (HealthDay News) -- New information about aprotein in the pancreas may help in efforts to determine how diabetesdevelops during pregnancy, say Stanford University Medical Centerresearchers.

  • Pancreas May Be Key to Pregnancy-Linked Diabetes (HealthDay)
    posted on 11/01/07 by
    HealthDay - THURSDAY, Nov. 1 (HealthDay News) -- New information about aprotein in the pancreas may help in efforts to determine how diabetesdevelops during pregnancy, say Stanford University Medical Centerresearchers.

  • Pregnancy Complications
    posted on 10/24/07 by
    Certainly no one wants or asks for a complicated pregnancy, but a certain percentage of women will experience some form of a complication in pregnancy. From gestational diabetes to...

  • Pregnancy Complications
    posted on 10/24/07 by
    Certainly no one wants or asks for a complicated pregnancy, but a certain percentage of women will experience some form of a complication in pregnancy. From gestational diabetes to...

  • Mothers With Diabetes Parted From Newborns, UK
    posted on 10/19/07 by Medical News Today
    Mothers with diabetes are being separated from their newborn babies, according to findings out.The Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH) claims that over half of newborn babies whose mothers have Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes are automatically moved to a special care baby unit.This has negative impacts, the report warns. [click link for full article]

  • States failing in area of women’s health
    posted on 10/17/07 by MSNBC
    Most U.S. states have made little progress toward improving women’s health and many have fallen behind as rates of obesity and diabetes continue to climb, a new 50-state report released on Wednesday showed.

  • Gestational Diabetes (GD)
    posted on 10/07/07 by About.com
    Gestational Diabetes (GD) is routinely screened for between 24-28 weeks of pregnancy using your health history. If your practitioner believes you need to have your blood screened based on...

  • An endo visit and fitness concerns
    posted on 10/05/07 by MedWorm
    I had a regular endocrinologist appointment yesterday, my first since trying to conceive.See, Endo also oversees the diabetes and pregnancy program at my local hospital, so for the past two-plus years, I saw her as either a trying-to-conceive patient or one who was actually pregnant.Yesterday, I was merely a patient with diabetes.There have been some changes in the clinic where she sees her non-pregnant patients. I was able to find out my A1C within 15 minutes, instead of receiving the info a we

  • Maternal metabolic syndrome may raise neural tube defect risk
    posted on 10/04/07 by MedWorm
    Pregnant women with features of metabolic syndrome may be at increased risk of having a child with a neural tube defect, according to a population-based, case-control study, published in the online open access journal BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Diabetes Headlines)

  • Researchers Find Important Clue To Immune Infertility
    posted on 09/13/07 by MedicineNet
    Most of us have never heard of immune infertility, yet it prevents many prospective parents from conceiving. Immune infertility is one of 80 autoimmune disorders, a group that includes better known diseases like Multiple Sclerosis and Type 1 Diabetes. This reproductive disorder affects both men and women, causing their immune systems to wage war on sperm. [click link for full article]

  • Drug Could Improve Pregnancy Outcomes In Wider Range Of Women With Insulin Resistance
    posted on 09/10/07 by ScienceDaily
    Women who are obese, have type 2 diabetes or a family history of type 2 diabetes could one day have more successful pregnancies because of a new study. This study, performed in mice, suggests that Metformin, the most commonly prescribed anti-diabetes drug, could potentially improve pregnancy outcomes in women with insulin resistance.

  • Did you know that pregnant star halle berry was a diabetic?
    posted on 09/07/07 by Medworm
    Did you know that Halle Berry was a type 2 diabetic since she was 23 years old? I didn’t. I was reading the good ol’ People magazine tonight and saw the news that she was pregnant. And that man of hers… handsome indeed!But getting back to the diabetes thing, she was diagnosed almost 20 years ago and has done very well with diet and exercise control. As we all know diabetes puts a crinkle in anything and pregnancy is no different. So I wish her luck in keeping her di

  • Drug May Help Pregnant Women with Insulin Resistance
    posted on 10/17/07 by Health.am
    Women who are obese, have type 2 diabetes or a family history of type 2 diabetes could one day have more successful pregnancies because of a study at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.This study, performed in mice, suggests that Metformin, the most commonly prescribed anti-diabetes drug, could potentially improve pregnancy outcomes in women with insulin resistance. 

  • Higher Maternal Sugar Levels Increases Risk Of Childhood Obesity
    posted on 08/27/07 by ScienceDaily
    Treating gestational diabetes can break the link to childhood obesity. The largest study of its kind, this research shows that childhood obesity risk rises with a pregnant woman's blood sugar level and untreated gestational diabetes doubles a child's risk of obesity. Authors looked at 20,000 mothers and children, and found treating gestational diabetes lowers the child's risk of obesity to same level of a mother with normal blood sugar levels.