Archive for January, 2009

30
Jan

Why Care About Diabetes?

Seward Phoenix Log, AK – 11 hours ago
Diabetes is currently the leading cause of kidney disease, blindness, and amputation, yet nearly 25% of people who have it don’t even know it.

Topics: pills, free, supplies, blindness, test, kidney disease, diabetes

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25
Jan

Diabetes Caused by Pregnancy

Diabetes that comes with pregnancy and goes after delivery is gestational diabetes. During pregnancy, the placenta makes many hormones that require an increased production of insulin to control blood sugar.

25
Jan

Diabetes Drugs Will Face Greater Scrutiny In 2009 By FDA

Cardiovascular risks are at the heart of a new Food and Drug Administration mandate requiring additional clinical testing on type II Diabetes drugs. In December 2008, the Food and Drug Administration released new guidelines requiring that pharmaceutical companies submit long-term cardiovascular studies for new type II antidiabetic therapies , effective immediately. This decision comes on the heels of a July 2008 Food and Drug Administration expert advisory panel vote in favor of additional cardiovascular testing for type II Diabetes drugs

23
Jan

Blood Pressure Improvements Aid Diabetic Pregnancy

Control of high blood pressure, or hypertension, leads to improved pregnancy outcomes in women with Type One Diabetes and with kidney disease, Danish science experts report in the journal Diabetes Care.

Topics: blood pressure, high blood pressure, women, blood, diabetes, hypertension, pregnancy, free, test, kidney disease, Diabetes Care, diabetic, supplies, type one

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