Almost A year And A Half Later

By promising myself to be more regular with my posts to this blog...this is the result. Almost a year and a half hiatus.

Unreal.

Well, I'm still diabetic. And, I've still got it pretty well under control. (Last month my A1C was 6.2 which was slightly elevated from my last A1C of 6.1 six months ago).

HAve to run now...but promise to post more regularly than the last time. Really.

Mediterranean Diet May Thwart Diabetes

Eating a traditional Mediterranean diet may help prevent type 2 diabetes, a Spanish study shows.

The study included 13,380 Spanish university graduates (age range 20 to 90, average age 36) who were followed for about four years. They completed a dietary survey when the study started and follow-up questionnaires every two years after that. More...

Vaccine reverses diabetes in mice

An experimental vaccine has prevented and reversed type 1 diabetes in laboratory animals, researchers at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh reported Wednesday.

The vaccine has not been tested in humans, but researchers hope to begin clinical trials late next year. More...

Arthritis drug may help diabetes patients

Researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center believe an anti-inflammatory drug called salsalate could help treat type 2 diabetes.

Researchers have also said they think the same drug can prevent the disease.

The paper appears in this month's issue of the journal Clinical and Translational Science.

The study mentions three other studies showing the commonly used arthritis medication salsalate helps lower blood sugar and reduces inflammation. More...

Cocoa can be 'boost to diabetics'

A cup of enriched cocoa may help improve the working of blood vessels in diabetic patients, research suggests.

Doctors prescribed three mugs of specially formulated cocoa a day for a month, and found "severely impaired" arteries regained normal function. More...

Erectile Dysfunction And Diabetes

"Men with diabetes who are having trouble keeping an erection could be at increased risk of serious heart problems", BBC News reported. It said that a study has found that those with erectile dysfunction are twice as likely as other men with diabetes to develop heart disease. This finding could apparently be used to "alert both patients and healthcare providers to the future risk of coronary heart disease". More...

Arthritis drug may help Type 2 diabetes patients

Researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Centre have found that a drug used to treat arthritis can actually help in treating type 2 diabetes.

Salsalate, an anti inflammatory drug used for decades to treat arthritis can in fact help in treating type 2 diabetes by lowering blood sugar and reducing inflammation. More...