Twice-Daily Insulin Not Ideal for Diabetic Kids
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NEW YORK  - For preschool children with  type 1 diabetes, twice-daily insulin injections do not  adequately control blood sugar levels, researchers report. They  found these kids had frequent and prolonged episodes of either  low or high blood sugar.
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Daily caffeine increases blood sugar levels for people with type 2 diabetes, research shows.
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BALTIMORE -- British researchers have begun human trials to investigate a vaccine that could possibly cure type 1 diabetes. Meanwhile, overindulging in food during the holiday season can pose dangerous health risks for type 2 diabetics.
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NEW YORK  - Children and teens with type 1 diabetes who spend a lot of time watching television are likely to have poor control of their blood glucose levels, according to new findings.
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Antipsychotic drugs prescribed to children for bipolar disorders, aggression, and schizophrenia have been linked to a higher risk for type 2 diabetes in a new study presented at a American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry meeting.
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WASHINGTON - Nearly 60 percent of diabetes patients who have received an experimental transplant of pancreatic cells are able to live without insulin injections a year later, Canadian and US doctors reported Tuesday.
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Katy Folven never leaves home without her insulin pen, but the busy Boston social worker sometimes forgets to track her daily doses. When that happens, she must prick one of her already-calloused fingertips to measure blood sugar. That can mean as many as 10 punctures in a day.
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Some seasonal patterns in when a diagnosis of type I insulin- dependent diabetes is made in school-age children may reflect the parents' response during holidays and weekends, as well as the availability of healthcare services, according to Scottish researchers.
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NEW YORK  - Children and teens with type 1 diabetes may be able to reduce their risk of future heart and blood vessel disease by taking part in regular exercise, German researchers report.
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It is well known that people  with type 2 diabetes are at increased risk of pancreatic  cancer, and now it seems that the risk extends to those with  type 1 diabetes, researchers report. However, they point out  that the risk is still very small.
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NEW YORK  - Long-term insulin use by  patients with type 2 diabetes is associated with an increased  risk of colon cancer, according to research reported in the  medical journal Gastroenterology.
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Women who drink more than one sweetened soft drink a day are slightly more likely to develop diabetes than women who drink less than one a month, according to a new study.    But critics of the study noted the same conclusion might be drawn from examining eating habits involving other forms of junk food, too...
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Transplants of insulin-making cells have not lived up to the promise they showed in an initial trial.
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Thousands of young diabetics could be skipping insulin injections in order to lose weight, the BBC learns.
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NEW YORK  - An insulin pump that provide  continuous release of insulin provides good control of blood  sugar (glucose) in very young patients with type 1 diabetes,  according to a new report in the journal Pediatrics.  Researchers think this treatment may be superior to multiple  daily injections in lowering the risk of episodes of severe low  blood glucose, or hypoglycemia.
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NEW YORK  - Children and adolescents with type 2 diabetes, like adults, are at risk for developing complications from the disease. However, these complications are expected to develop earlier in young patients, experts say.
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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.