By: PA, The Independent
Friday, 3 October 2008
Diabetes sufferers should not routinely take aspirin to prevent heart attacks, research today suggested.
It had been argued that routine use of the drug could help prevent the risk of suffering a heart attack.
But new research conducted by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) found that [...]
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Diabetics’ use of aspirin questioned
Posted in Diabetes, Editor, HEART, RISKS, Science, Vascular disease, bmj, chronic disease, health, life, news on October 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Heart disease risk of chemical used in food and drink containers
Posted in Diabetes, Editor, HEART, RISKS, Science, chronic disease, diagnosis, health, life, news on September 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
By: Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor, The Independent
Wednesday, 17 September 2008
One of the world’s most widely used chemicals, a key constituent of plastic food and drink containers, has been linked for the first time with increased rates of heart disease and diabetes in adults.
Bisphenol A (BPA) is one of the 10 most common [...]
The hidden dangers in fruit juices
Posted in Diabetes, Food, RISKS, Science, chronic disease, health, life, news on August 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
By: Ross Chainey, MSN UK HEALTH
Wed Aug 06, 2008
Fruit juices:
Britons consume more than two billion litres of fruit juice every year; that’s 36 litres each.
And we all enjoy fruit juice under the impression that, as one of our ‘five-a-day’, it’s doing us a world of good.
But the journal Diabetes Care found, [...]
Mediterranean diet cuts risk of diabetes
Posted in ALZHEIMER, Diabetes, HEART, RISKS, Science, bmj, chronic disease, diagnosis, health, life, news on June 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
By Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor, The Independent
Friday, 30 May 2008
The Mediterranean diet, with abundant quantities of virgin olive oil, provides strong protection against diabetes, a study has shown.
The diet, which includes high quantities of fruit, vegetables and wholegrain pulses and cereals is already known to protect against cardiovascular disease and, according to some research, against [...]
Self monitoring of blood glucose in type 2 diabetes
Posted in Diabetes, Editor, RISKS, bmj, chronic disease, health, life, news on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
BMJ, doi:10.1136/bmj.39538.469421.80 (published 17 April 2008)
Editorials
By: Martin Gulliford, professor of public health, Department of Public Health Sciences, London
Self monitoring – whether intensive or not – is unlikely to be cost effective if added to standardised usual care and initially reduces quality of life.
Self monitoring also had no effect over one year on:
HbA1c,
body mass index,
use of [...]
INFERTILITY AND POLYCYSTIC OVARIES
Posted in CHILDREN, Diabetes, Women's health, bmj, chronic disease, diagnosis, health on November 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »
BMJ 2007;335:663-666 (29 September).
Managing anovulatory infertility and polycystic ovary syndrome
BY: Adam H Balen, professor of reproductive medicine and surgery, Anthony J Rutherford, consultant in reproductive medicine and surgery.
Summary points
Polycystic ovary syndrome is the most common endocrine problem affecting women and the most common cause of anovulatory infertility
Oral clomifene citrate remains the first line treatment to induce ovulation
Gonadotrophin treatment [...]
Exercise is an important treatment for type 2 diabetes
Posted in Diabetes, bmj, chronic disease, health, life, news on November 2, 2007 | 2 Comments »
BMJ 2007;335:638 (29 September).
We know that regular exercise can help people with type 2 diabetes achieve better glycaemic control. Aerobic activities such as cycling or resistance training with weights can bring down serum concentrations of glycated haemoglobin.
But these activities are even more effective when combined, according to a randomised trial. Participants exercised three times a week for six [...]
TYPE 2 DIABETES AND HEART FAILURE
Posted in Blogroll, Diabetes, HEART, chronic disease, health, life on October 9, 2007 | 3 Comments »
BMJ 2007;335:223 (4 August) by Janice Hopkins Tanne.
Rosiglitazone (Avandia) and pioglitazone (Actos) DOUBLED the risk of heart failure in patients with type 2 diabetes (Diabetes Care 2007;30:2148-53).
The authors said that although drugs in the thiazolidinedione class were known to increase the risk of heart failure in patients with type 2 diabetes, the magnitude of the [...]
