Category: Diabetes
Can a bionic pancreas improve management of type 1 diabetes? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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A so-called bionic pancreas helped people across the age range manage their type 1 diabetes more easily, a recent study reports. Johns Hopkins diabetes expert Rita Kalyani says the device is much simpler to use than currently available insulin pumps. …
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Body mass index or BMI likely needs an update, Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Even people with type 2 diabetes who were not obese were able to achieve resolution of their condition with weight loss, a new study concludes. Rita Kalyani, a diabetes expert at Johns Hopkins, says this finding points to the need …
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How can weight loss help resolve type 2 diabetes? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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A group of overweight but not obese people with type 2 diabetes were able to completely resolve the condition and go off medications when they lost 10-15% of their body weight, a new study finds. Diabetes expert Rita Kalyani at …
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If you have type 2 diabetes but are not overweight, does losing weight still help? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Overweight and obesity are associated with the development of type 2 diabetes. Now a new study demonstrates that in people with the condition, losing weight even if they’re not obese can resolve the condition entirely. Johns Hopkins diabetes expert Rita …
How might cancer and diabetes be linked? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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A blood marker called prostasin seems to link both one’s risk to develop diabetes and the risk of dying from cancer. How might these be linked? William Nelson, director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, offers his interpretation. …
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