Diabetes News

Reduced levels of inflammation may explain how some obese people are able to remain metabolically healthy, according to a recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

Glucagon, a hormone involved in regulating appetite, loses its ability to help obese people feel full after a meal, but it continues to suppress hunger pangs in people with type 1 diabetes, according to a recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. http://jcem.endojournals.org/

Researchers from Kaiser Permanente and the University Medical Centre Utrecht in the Netherlands have developed a risk score that predicts the 10-year risk of dementia for type 2 diabetes patients.

Eating a healthy diet and drinking a moderate amount of alcohol may be associated with decreased risk or progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, according to a report published by JAMA Internal Medicine.

An experimental drug designed to block the advancement of type 1 diabetes in its earliest stages has proven effective over a course of two years in about half of the patients who participated in the phase 2 clinical trial.

Older adults with diabetes are more likely to experience insulin adverse event–related emergency department visits and hospitalizations, according to an analysis of nationally representative surveillance data presented at the American Diabetes Association annual meeting last month.

The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) is advising anyone with Type 2 diabetes or hypertension to be evaluated for sleep apnea by a board-certified sleep medicine physician. The recommendation comes as the group of international clinicians and researchers meets in Baltimore for SLEEP 2013, the foremost gathering of sleep experts annually.