A kidney disease caused due to long term diabetes, as 15 years or more, is also known as Kimmelstiel-Wilson syndrome and intercapillary glomerulonephritis. Long term diabetes’ kidney disease regarded as the main cause of dialysis, characterized by nephrotic syndrome.

Generally kidney defects, diseases, and infections are caused in diabetics due to persistent high levels of blood sugar that pass into urine in order to be secreted out. It can be found in both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetics. In Type1 patients, insulin production is diminished, and in Type2 patients, once called non-insulin diabetes mellitus, or adult onset diabetes results as insulin deficiency or insulin resistance.

Uncontrolled sugar levels however are fatal for both types of diabetics. Cardiovascular diseases, impairment of several body organs, muscle weakness, nephropathy, blindness, memory loss, artery diseases, and most commonly heightened healing defects are some of the defects and ailments caused due to excessive hypoglycemia or hyperglycemia.

According to an analysis of data on diabetes in the US shows that nearly 13% people aged 20 and above have diabetes and nearly 40% among them have not been diagnosed yet.

In a previous study, the rates of undiagnosed people were almost the same, but this study shows a larger proportion of diabetics than found in that previous study.

Catherine C. Cowie, the lead author of the study, says in this connection: “It can be said without any doubt that the cases of diagnosed diabetes have considerably increased that were 5.1% from 1988 to 1994 and were 7.7% from 2005 to 2006. It has been also observed that the cases of diagnosed diabetes have increased in African-Americans particularly.”

“While, the number of undiagnosed and pre-diabetes cases is still quite stable with 30% and it’s, indeed, a good news,” Catherine added. “If the cases of undiagnosed diabetes remain the same and diagnosed cases go up, it means we are doing a good job in detecting these cases.”

You must have heard about type1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, but the least existing form of diabetes is gestational diabetes. If you are pregnant and during pregnancy you develop diabetes that condition is referred to gestational diabetes or GDM.

In accordance with the normal procedure alimentary canal digest the carbohydrate of food into glucose and absorb into blood. Glucose is the key source of the energy of human body.

After that, the essential organ of the body ‘pancreas’ release hormone called insulin, that get the glucose from blood and provide them to the body cell for proper functioning.

Development of diabetes refer to the state, that either your body in not producing enough protein or your body cells are not recognizing the insulin present in your body, that is why they are not using it in the way they should.

Obese teenagers who have undergone bariatric surgery, along with the weight loss also see the disappearance of their type 2 diabetes, a new study says.

Bariatric surgery also known as gastric bypass surgery works by reducing the size of the stomach and in this manner limiting the quantity of food one can eat. Lapband method was being used by the researchers, in which an adjustable band is placed to block off large portion of the stomach. The band confines how much food the body absorbs.

“Past studies have proven regular reduction of type 2 diabetes in adults following gastric bypass surgery, but until now, no research had provided valuable information about the affect of surgery on adolescent diabetics,” lead researcher Dr. Thomas H. Inge, said.

For this specific study, Inge’s team involved 78 obese teens with type 2 diabetes. Eleven teens were selected for the gastric bypass surgery, while the rest of 67 patients received routine care for diabetes.

Patients with surgical procedure not only get 34 percent reduction in their body weight, but their diabetes start to vanish as well. On the other hand the second patients without surgery experience weight loss of less than two pounds and they still need anti-diabetic drug.

Gleevac, which is considered a wonder drug to treat leukemia and other cancers, may also prove helpful to reverse type1 diabetes, researchers from University of California San Francisco find.

While noticing effects on mice, the researchers also found that Gleevec and another similar cancer drug Sutent helped to avoid the development of type1 diabetes. Type1 diabetes occurs because of the body’s inability to produce insulin and more often it is diagnosed in children and young adults.

Jeffrey Bluestone, who led the study, says: “ Gleevec seems to affect related kinases even platelet-derived growth factor that are possibly involved in different cell types  grave to the progression and development of autoimmune disease like type1 diabetes”.

Diabetes when combined with any form of aerobic or strength exercise displayed a lot of improvements in glucose control along with fat composition and physical performance as per the latest study.

According to the American Physical Therapy Association spokesperson Robin L. Marcus aerobic exercises along with some considerable strength training is highly recommended for treating people with diabetes.

The results of this study were published in the November issue of the Physical Therapy journal. Diabetic currently affects approximately 24 million people in the United States itself. Type 2 diabetes, which is a chronic illness caused by the decrease in the insulin sensitivity and overall poor control of glucose, is promoted by a decrease in the physical activity.

According to Robin Marcus, diabetic patients should be motivated to undertake physical therapy as a cost effective and safe alternative treatment. This study involved 15 volunteers with type-2 diabetes who participated for 16 weeks under supervised exercise training programs. There were eight of them who undertook aerobic exercises and the other seven combined aerobic as well as strength training programs.

In United States, the rates of new cases of type 2 diabetes have got nearly doubled in the last 10 years and most of these cases appearing in southern states, according to federal officials report.

From 1995 to 1997, new diagnosis of type 2 diabetes were 4.8 per people and from 2005 to 2007, they rose to 9.1 per 1000 people. Officials say that this increase in new cases is the result of high obesity rates, as it’s a leading cause of the blood sugar disease.

Study author Karen Kirtland, who is a data analysts in CDC’s Division of Diabetes Translation, says: “Obesity and inactivity are to major risk factors for type 2 diabetes and we it’s a known fact that South has a high prevalence of physical inactivity and obesity if compared to the other parts of the country.”

According to a report published in PubMed journal, babies who born under caesarean section have a 20% higher risk of getting type 1diabetes than the babies born naturally.

Type1 diabetes can start in early childhood and it is on rise in many European countries because of some unknown factors.

The researchers from Queen’s University Belfast worked on 20 previous studies and suggested that contact with hospital bacteria instead of material bacteria in delivery may be the real culprit.

CHICAGO – Study findings in the Journal of American Medical Association have shed new light on the link between arsenic and Type 2 diabetes.  The study is the first to link low-level arsenic exposure, possibly from drinking water, with Type 2 diabetes.

The study was based on medical tests of 788 adults’ and revealed a fourfold increase in risk of diabetes in people with low levels of arsenic.  As seafood is a source for high concentration of organic arsenic, researchers adjusted findings of seafood arsenic and still found that those who had Type 2 diabetes had 26% higher arsenic levels than those who did not have the disease.

Sirtris, a GlaxoSmithKline company stressed upon finding out and formulating tiny molecule drugs in order to treat diseases of aged people called “Type 2 Diabetes”.  The study showed that middle aged mice were treated with “Resveratorl” improved the overall health of mice including bones betterment, decrease in cataracts and cardiovascular dysfunction and it did also improve the balance and motor coordinator among middle aged mice.

The co-author of research, David Sinclair, Ph.D, a Sirtris Co-Founder and Harvard Medical School Associate Professor of Pathology noted, “We would like to settle on resveratrol which leads towards many health betterments like caloric, dietary restraints and its control on mice.