The risk of developing dementia is so high in the diabetic patients, final conclusion of different studies. Researchers also said that episodes of sudden hyper or hypoglycemia may also create a life-threatening condition.

A long-term study that includes thousands of old diabetic patients found that, people with the episode of hypoglycemia have more chances of developing dementia and each episode increase the chances respectively.

The results were published in the Journal of American Medical Association and researchers showed their concern as type 2 diabetes is increasing globally and patients of dementia will increase as the population ages.

Coffee intake not only awakes you but also have potential benefits for the mental health in old age, a new study suggests.

In 1,409 middle age people, researchers analyzed the consumption of coffee for twenty one years. Meanwhile, forty eight of them developed dementia and sixty one Alzheimer’s diseases.

In the study, researchers found that participants who drink three to five cups of coffee each day have 65 percent less chances of developing dementia than the people take two cup or less. But the number of people who showed such benefits was too low to draw any conclusion.

Dr. Miia Kivipelto, the lead researcher is not certifying coffee as a preventive health measure and said, “This study is strictly base on observations, there is no evidence that the non-coffee drinkers will have some protective effect after the use of coffee.”

The findings were published after controlling most of the socioeconomic factors including hypercholesterolemia and hypertension.

Pancreatic cancer is not as common as the other forms of cancer. It is considered as the deadliest form due to its rapid growth and thus often undiagnosed till at the later stages and few treatment available options.

Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer death overall, only in U.S. In estimation, nearly 38,000 Americans were diagnosed with pancreatic cancer during 2008, and only four thousand manage to survive.

Anatomy of pancreas

The pancreas is important organ situated beneath the stomach adjacent to the duodenum. The pancreas consists of collections of glands, which perform their specific function. Functionally pancreas can be divided into the parts:

• Exocrine part
• Endocrine part

The glands in exocrine part secrete their enzymes into duodenum through a duct. The enzymatic action of these secretions digest the food as it moves through the intestines.

The glands of endocrine part secrete hormones, which include insulin, into the blood circulation. Insulin assists rest of the body in the process metabolizing sugar as an energy source. Insulin also maintains the sugar level in the blood.

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.

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.”

It has been reported in diabetes special issue of The Lancet that the researchers have demonstrated that early intensive insulin therapy may improve the functions of insulin generating ?-cells in the patients with type-2 diabetes. The schedule of the therapy has also been linked with blood glucose control recovery and restoration.

Type-2 diabetes is considered a disorder related to metabolism which typifies by insulin resistance .Many studies that have been conducted before have recommended that there is an ability in intensive insulin therapy to alter or at least slow down the development of the disease. Professor Jianping Weng of Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China and co researchers tried to find the true nature of these claims.