Treating depression improves diabetes control
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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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Sept. 8, 2004 -- A drug recently approved to treat depression has now received the FDA&#39;s approval to treat hand and leg pain caused by nerve damage in people with diabetes.
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The treatment of Type 2 diabetes must place more emphasis on tackling potentially fatal complications such as heart disease, experts have warned.
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People with diabetes may soon be able to take a pill to control their condition instead of repeated injections.
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A Johns Hopkins study suggests that people with type I and type II diabetes would be well advised to monitor their blood sugar levels more than the usual twice daily to make sure that levels are not elevated over 150 milligrams per deciliter for sustained
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There is new evidence that alcohol consumed in moderation may reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes (the form of the disease which emerges in middle age). Although this has been suspected previously, it now seems ...
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NEW YORK  - Americans with diabetes are doing a better job of keeping their blood glucose under control, a new analysis shows.
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The largest diabetes-prevention study ever done has found that a drug already used to treat the disease can also help keep "pre-diabetics" from developing it. But many experts said losing weight and exercising remain a safer, cheaper approach.
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A drug used to treat diabetes also seems to prevent it in people at high risk of developing the disease, the largest study ever to test this has found.
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NEW YORK  - Regular exercise may work as well as medication in improving symptoms of major depression, researchers have found.
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Medication that alters the brainâs response to alcohol could change the treatment of problem drinking so that it more closely resembles the type of care now routine for diabetes, high cholesterol and depression.
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Weight-loss surgery works much better than standard medical therapy as a treatment for type 2 diabetes in obese people, a study to compare the approaches has found.
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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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Diabetes patients could soon be able to take a pill to control their condition instead of repeated injections.
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Depression is more a disabling condition than angina, arthritis, asthma and diabetes, research suggests.
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NEW YORK  - By interfering with normal activities, chronic pain can impede recovery from depression in older adults, according to findings reported in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
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A new study has revealed that psychologically distressed people with diabetes have a higher heart disease risk as they tend to smoke more and avoid exercises.