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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Eating five servings of dark chocolate a week is associated with a reduction in the risk of type 2 diabetes, according to a long-term US study …
Clinical trials needed to confirm, say experts Read More
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Locked fingers, known as trigger finger, are more common among people with diabetes than in the general population. A study led by Lund University in Sweden …
Hands in people with diabetes more often affected by trigger finger Read More
The study associating periodontitis (PD) and diabetes mellitus (DM) using single-cell RNA analysis offers the first immunological explanation, revealing altered immune cell function and suggesting PD as a potential precursor …
Researchers reveal how diabetes weakens gum defense Read More
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A mouse study by Kristin Stanford, a physiology and cell biology researcher with The Ohio State University College of Medicine at the Wexner Medical Center, provides …
Maternal, paternal exercise affects metabolic health in offspring Read More
by Helmholtz Zentrum München Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt (GmbH) Stained liver cells. Credit: Karsten Motzler A group of researchers from the Helmholtz Munich Institute for Diabetes and Cancer …
Changing the trafficking of the glucagon receptor in the liver regulates its metabolic signaling Read More
Graphical abstract. Credit: Cell Metabolism (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2022.09.019 Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions discovered that the rheumatoid arthritis drug auranofin can potentially be repurposed to improve …
Findings support repurposing rheumatoid arthritis drug auranofin for diabetes Read More
A–C Differences in whole-body insulin sensitivity (A) and organ-related insulin sensitivity (predominantly skeletal muscle (B), liver (C)) after placebo (PCB) and carrageenan (CGN) administration in the study. Box plots indicate …
Food additive carrageenan could disrupt intestinal barrier and increase risk of type 2 diabetes Read More
Graphical abstract. Credit: Patterns (2020). DOI: 10.1016/j.patter.2020.100120 The most extensive image bank of samples of the pancreas from children who developed diabetes shortly before death has gone live at Vanderbilt …
Pancreatic image bank expected to help advance diabetes research worldwide Read More
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Almost a decade ago, UO graduate student Jennifer Hampton Hill made a fortuitous find: A protein made by gut bacteria that triggered insulin-producing cells to replicate. …
New research details the microbial origins of Type 1 diabetes Read More
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New research published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society suggests that psychological resilience—having attitudes and behaviors that help people bounce back after stressful challenges—may …
Do attitudes and behaviors in response to stress impact the health of older people with diabetes? Read More