High blood sugar ups mortality in leukemia patients
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NEW YORK  - High blood sugar levels increase the rate of in-hospital deaths by nearly 40 percent in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). This increased mortality is seen even in patients with mild blood sugar elevations, according to results of a chart review.
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NEW YORK  - 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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A study published today in the American Gastroenterological Associationâs journal Gastroenterology concludes that patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus who require long-term insulin therapy are at a significantly increased risk for colorectal cancer.
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At least 80 percent of diabetic children  in England may be vulnerable to complications such as heart  disease, blindness and stroke later in life because their blood  sugar levels are too high, a charity said on Wednesday.
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NEW YORK  - In the lab, multiple myeloma  cells are killed by drugs similar to existing anti-diabetes  drugs like Avandia or Actos, according to researchers at the  University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, New  York.
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NEW YORK  - A blood protein related to body weight and physical exercise levels appears to be linked to pancreatic cancer risk, according to a new study.
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NEW YORK  - Eating lots of sugar and sugar-sweetened foods could increase a person's likelihood of developing cancer of the pancreas, by far one of the deadliest types of cancer, Swedish researchers report.
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Aggressively driving blood sugar levels as low as possible in high-risk diabetes patients appears to increase the risk of dying from a heart attack or stroke, according to major government study that stunned and disappointed experts.
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NEW YORK  - People with advanced heart  failure and who also have diabetes that requires insulin  treatment have about a fourfold greater mortality rate than  heart failure patients who don't take insulin, researchers  report.
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NEW YORK  - Among healthy middle-aged and older women, the hemoglobin A1c level -- a measure of blood sugar control -- is an independent predictor of type 2 diabetes, a study shows.
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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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Researchers at the University of Minnesota have found that being overweight or obese could more than double an older woman&#39;s risk of getting one of the deadliest forms of leukemia.
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NEW YORK  - In women with diabetes, increasing hemoglobin A1C levels early in pregnancy -- an indicator of poor blood sugar control -- are associated with increasing risk of poor pregnancy outcomes, according to a report in the journal Diabetes Care.
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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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People with advanced heart failure and who also have diabetes that requires insulin treatment have about a fourfold greater mortality rate than heart failure patients
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MONDAY, Dec. 20 (HealthDayNews) -- The high price of the leukemia drug Gleevec is offset by the expected increase in survival rates among patients who take it, say two Duke University studies in the December issue of Cancer.
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People with type 2 diabetes who require long-term insulin therapy may be at greater risk of colorectal cancer, a small study suggests.