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Sunday, October, 25, 2009

Prevention Of Diabetes

Can Avandia, other drugs, prevent diabetes?

October 02, 2008
The drugs used to treat diabetes may also be useful in preventing the disease, says specialist Dr. Maria Collazo-Clavell. Drugs like Avandia and Glucophage may help people who are at high risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, she says, but some of the drugs have potentially serious side effects. According to Collazo-Clavell, healthy lifestyle changes remain the best way to prevent diabetes. Read more »

Expert & Community Posts

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Mice cured of diabetes?
By Dr. Bill Quick , Health Expert

...experimental model to test ideas about treatment and prevention of diabetes. So, anyway,... Read more »

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Innovative Research and Type 1 Diabetes: “Of Mice and Men”
By Dr. Fran Cogen , Health Expert

...you my vision for a potential treatment of type 1 diabetes mellitus. I proposed that a... Read more »

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Straight from the Womb: Are we dooming our children?
By Dr. Frank Varon , Health Expert

...risk of obesity in childhood was just published in Diabetes Care by the American Diabetes... Read more »

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Diabetes in children in the US
By Dr. Bill Quick , Health Expert

The journal Diabetes Care has just published a discussion of results from the SEARCH for Diabetes... Read more »

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Diabetes Cures and Diabetes Prevention
By Dr. Bill Quick , Health Expert

...reverse the beta-cell loss of type 1 diabetes.But prevention of diabetes is another... Read more »

Health Guide

What do I need to know about diabetes?"
Diabetes is called a disorder of metabolism. More simply put, diabetes keeps your body from properly utilizing the sugar obtained from food. Your body changes most of the food you eat into a form of... Read more »
Pre-Diabetes Risks, Symptoms & Prevention
Pre-diabetes is a health condition that carries no symptoms. Commonly referred to as "impaired glucose tolerance," approximately 54 million people in the United States twenty years and... Read more »
Diabetic Women Can Reduce Their Risk of Urinary Incontinence
Lifestyle Intervention Is Associated With Lower Prevalence of Urinary Incontinence The Diabetes Prevention Program Jeanette S. Brown, MD, Rena Wing, PHD, Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, MD, Leroy M.... Read more »
Type 1 Diabetes: Prevention
...that can test for autoantibodies that identify children who are at high risk for developing type 1 diabetes. At this time, however, there is no way to prevent type 1 diabetes and all preventive... Read more »
Link Between Diabetes and Alzheimer's Deepens
Monday's New York Times article Link Between Diabetes and Alzheimer's Deepens provides alarming statistics indicating that increases in diabetes may contribute to the rising toll from Alzheimer's.... Read more »

Medications

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...high blood sugar. It is used in patients with type 2 diabetes (non-insulin-dependent diabetes).... Read more »

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...(ex-EN-a-tide) Uses Exenatide is used along with other oral diabetes medications (e.g.,... Read more »

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...to control high blood sugar in people with type 2 diabetes (non-insulin-dependent diabetes).... Read more »

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...control high blood sugar in patients with type 2 diabetes (non-insulin-dependent diabetes). It... Read more »

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...control high blood sugar in patients with type 2 diabetes (non-insulin-dependent diabetes).... Read more »

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