Blood sugar stays steady during acute mental stress
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NEW YORK  - Most patients with type 1 diabetes, also known as juvenile diabetes, maintain good control over their blood sugar, without having to adjusting their insulin dose when they are exposed to short-term mental stress - in this case -- a rollercoaster ride -- Swiss investigators report.
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A study conducted by &#39;Interheart&#39; and published in The Lancet, has confirmed that stress increases the heart attack risk among people.
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Oct. 28, 2004 -- A stress-activated molecule underlies many of the symptoms of some mental illnesses, a new study shows. We control our behaviors, thoughts, and emotions via an important part of the brain: the prefrontal cortex.
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US scientists show how the body's own natural stress hormone could soothe post-traumatic stress disorder.
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One week after U.S. researchers announced that pushing down blood sugar levels as close as possible to normal might be dangerous for high-risk diabetes patients, a preliminary analysis of a similar international study has found no such risk.
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When Shakespeare called sleep the "chief nourisher of life's feast," he may have been well ahead of his time, medically at least. Researchers at the University of Chicago Medical Center report that disrupting sleep damages the body's ability to regulate blood sugar levels, potentially raising the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
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Diabetics should be monitoring their blood sugar levels more frequently due to new research that suggests sustained elevated levels may increase the risk of heart disease.
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New research shows children with diabetes exhale higher levels of a chemical when their blood sugar is high, possibly leading to a noninvasive blood-sugar test.
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NEW YORK  - A study of type 2 diabetics with depression confirms that depression has a negative impact on glycemic (blood sugar) control, researchers report, and "affirms the importance of depression management in diabetic patients in its potential to improve glycemic control."
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NEW YORK  - Specially tailored family therapy can help teens with type 1 diabetes keep their blood sugar levels under control.
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NEW YORK  - Systolic blood pressure, the  upper number in a blood-pressure reading, during the recovery  period after exercise stress testing may help predict the risk  of heart attack in men, according to a report in the journal  Hypertension.
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NEW YORK  - Not getting enough shut eye   each night or not sleeping well may contribute to reduced blood   sugar control in African Americans with type 2, also referred   to as adult-onset diabetes, according to a study published this   week. Similar ties between sleep and blood sugar control are   likely to exist in other ethnic groups as well, the study team   predicts.
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One week after U.S. researchers announced that pushing down blood sugar levels as close to normal as possible might be dangerous for high-risk diabetes patients, a preliminary analysis of a similar international study has found no such risk.
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NEW YORK  - People who suffer from job burnout may be prone to developing type 2 diabetes, according to a study of 677 mostly male middle-aged Israeli workers, published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine.
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NEW YORK  - The percentage of U.S. adults with diabetes who have their blood sugar levels under control, as indicated by glycosylated hemoglobin (A1C) levels of less 7 percent, increased between 1999 and 2004, according to findings published in Diabetes Care.
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NEW YORK  - An herb long used in  traditional Indian medicine appears to control the rise in  blood sugar that follows a meal -- suggesting, researchers say,  that it could help treat or even prevent type 2 diabetes.
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A temporary rise in blood glucose (sugar) levels can cause diabetics to suffer a slowdown in their cognitive processes and interfere with their ability to think clearly, according to a study in the January issue of Diabetes Care.