Individuals who have poorly controlled type 1 diabetes or type 2 diabetes may be at greater risk of developing retinopathy, according to a new study from a team of French researchers. They found that persistently high levels of blood sugar are a strong indicator of future retinopathy risk. Please read further at EndocrineWeb…
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European Diabetes Research Network Receives 6 Million Euros
The Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry (PCMD), University of Exeter, is one of 13 academic institutions and businesses across Europe to form a 6m euro research and analysis network, funded by the EU for a five-year period, which is designed to investigate the possible role of virus infection in the cause of type 1 [...]
A Possible Cure For Type 1 Diabetes?
Via ASweetLife.org – JDRF announced that research financed by JDRF may hold a key component for a possible type 1 diabetes cure.
Sleep Less, Get Diabetes?
If you’re getting too little sleep, you may also be getting diabetes. People at risk of diabetes tend to get too little sleep. They also tend to exercise too little and eat unhealthy Western diets. Is poor sleep really a diabetes risk factor?
Researchers to implant pig cells in diabetics
A New Zealand biotech company began a trial Thursday that will implant cells from newborn pigs into eight human volunteers as an experimental treatment for their diabetes.
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