Shrunken Foot Muscles Signal Diabetic Nerve Damage
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The total volume of muscles in the foot is halved in people who have nerve damage resulting from diabetes, compared with diabetics without neuropathy, according to researchers.
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A significant number of patients who have their stomachs stapled develop nerve damage in their extremities, research has found.
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Scientists have shown that a single protein plays a central role in the development of diabetes.
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NEW YORK  - Elderly people with type 2 diabetes have an accelerated loss of skeletal muscle strength compared with their counterparts without diabetes, Korean and US researchers report in the current issue of Diabetes Care.
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Children who are obese are damaging their feet and may have problems walking, a study suggests.
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NEW YORK  - Obese patients typically show  poor sensitivity to the hormone insulin, a problem that can  lead to diabetes. Previous reports have shown that weight loss  surgery can improve this sensitivity and now, new research  indicates that the type of surgery determines how fast this  problem is fixed.
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The lesson from foot fungus: sometimes your target market isn't really your target market.
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Many people with diabetes find that they become mentally and physically sluggish during periods when their blood sugar level rises in the course of their daily routines, investigators report.
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An injection of botulinum toxin (Botox) into the stomach is a safe method of relieving the nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain that occurs with diabetic gastroparesis, findings from a small study suggest.
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An implanted nanotube sensor has been developed that can track blood sugar, promising pain-free continues glucose monitoring for diabetics and future devices that can check other biological changes.
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NEW YORK  - Tests of pupil function, as an indicator of how well the automatic nervous system is working, may help predict how likely young diabetics are to develop "microvascular disease" -- that is disease of the small blood vessels -- as many diabetics do.
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A significant number of patients who have stomach surgery to lose weight develop peripheral nerve damage, research has found. A team at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota found patients complained of pain, tingling or numbness.
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BEIJING, Dec. 23 -- Diabetes patients may find that they become mentally and physically slow when periods of their blood sugar level rising come in everyday life.
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NEW YORK  - People who have been infected  with herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) -- the variety that  usually causes 'cold sores' rather than genital infections --  appear to have an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes,  according to a report from China.
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If you are too weak, unfit or heavy to embark on an exercise program, you should try walking downhill. Walking downhill is good for lowering your blood glucose levels, say Austrian researchers.
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NEW YORK  - People with diabetes are prone  to develop damage to their retinas, but tight control of blood  pressure slows the progression of this complication and helps  prevent vision loss, UK researchers report.
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WASHINGTON--Bariatric surgery for morbid obesity is associated with neurological complications according to a systematic study of peripheral neuropathy after bariatric surgery.