Researchers have developed a sensor that measures blood sugar continuously and transmits the information wirelessly.
The small device has a pair of sensors and could be implanted in a person's torso. One of the sensors detect oxygen while the other one studies the reaction of oxygen and glucose. This information is then transmitted through an integrated antenna.
The blood glucose monitor, which measures about 1.5inches across, could be available under prescription within a few years. scientists reported in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
The device has been tested in one pig for more than a year and in another for nearly 10 months with no problems, they said.
Lead author Professor David Gough, from the UC San Diego, said that they were now focused on getting the human clinical trials going. He said they hoped to begin the first human trial within in a few months.
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Monday, August 9, 2010
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Black tea helps fight diabetes
Can black tea fight diabetes? Yes, black tea can help fight diabetes according to researchers from the Tianjin Key Laboratory in China.
The researchers, whose work was published in the Journal of Food Science, found that black tea can help fight diabetes on the basis of the study of polysaccharide levels in green, oolong and black teas.
They found that polysaccharide in black tea had the most glucose inhibiting properties when compared to green and oolong teas.
Polysaccharides is a kind of carbohydrate, which includes starch and cellulose. It may benefit diabetic people as they help retard absorption of glucose.
The researchers also found that polysaccharides in black tea had the highest scavenging effect on free radicals, which are believed to lead to cancer, rheumatoid arthritis and other illnesses.
The researchers believe that there was a great potential for exploitation of polysaccharide in black tea for managing diabetes.
The researchers, whose work was published in the Journal of Food Science, found that black tea can help fight diabetes on the basis of the study of polysaccharide levels in green, oolong and black teas.
They found that polysaccharide in black tea had the most glucose inhibiting properties when compared to green and oolong teas.
Polysaccharides is a kind of carbohydrate, which includes starch and cellulose. It may benefit diabetic people as they help retard absorption of glucose.
The researchers also found that polysaccharides in black tea had the highest scavenging effect on free radicals, which are believed to lead to cancer, rheumatoid arthritis and other illnesses.
The researchers believe that there was a great potential for exploitation of polysaccharide in black tea for managing diabetes.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Insufficient sleep contributes to diabetes
Sleeping and diabetes are related. Short sleep is known to contribute to the development of insulin resistance and reduced glucose tolerance. This has been established by a new study, which has been published in The Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
The researchers subjected a group of healthy middle-aged men and women to two 14-day period of controlled living with free access to food and 5.5 or 8.5 hour of sleep.
It was seen that when the sleeping hours was reduced from 8.5 hours to 5.5 hours, they showed changes in their response to two common sugar tests, which were seen to be similar to those seen in those with an increased risk of developing diabetes.
Plamen Penev of the University of Chicago and a senior author of the study has said that the westernised style combined with reduced sleep might contribute to the increased risk of many overweight and sedentary individuals developing diabetes.
He says it is not just a healthy life style and healthy eating habit that is needed to control diabetes, but one should also have good sleep.
The researchers subjected a group of healthy middle-aged men and women to two 14-day period of controlled living with free access to food and 5.5 or 8.5 hour of sleep.
It was seen that when the sleeping hours was reduced from 8.5 hours to 5.5 hours, they showed changes in their response to two common sugar tests, which were seen to be similar to those seen in those with an increased risk of developing diabetes.
Plamen Penev of the University of Chicago and a senior author of the study has said that the westernised style combined with reduced sleep might contribute to the increased risk of many overweight and sedentary individuals developing diabetes.
He says it is not just a healthy life style and healthy eating habit that is needed to control diabetes, but one should also have good sleep.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Diabetes; it is critically important to control this killer disease
Once you are diagnosed with diabetes, it is critically important to control diabetes. You should have to be very careful in dealing with diabetes as it can lead to many other complications. It is likely that diabetes can affect your eyes, kidney, heart, nervous system and brain.
It is critically important to control diabetes. Controlling diabetes means you have lesser risks of complications. Controlling diabetes means you are less likely to suffer from the complications arising out of diabetes. Controlling diabetes means lowering the risk of damage to the kidney, brain and eye.
Controlling diabetes means controlling the glucose level in the body. You have to maintain the right levels of your glucose, neither high nor low. Once you are found to be diabetic, you have to go for regular check ups, preferably once a week.
If you are traced with diabetes, it is better to be under the guidance of a physician as he may help you to maintain the right glucose levels. Do not try to treat diabetes on your own as it can only complicate matters.
An important aspect in controlling diabetes is to maintain proper diet. Always maintain a healthy eating habit, which helps in controlling diabetes. Do not go for heavy meals and instead cut short the meals into five or six smaller meals. Go for leafy vegetables and let your food be a balanced one with the right nutrients, vitamins and carbohydrates.
Along with a proper diet, exercise is also an important factor that helps in controlling diabetes. Exercise helps in the speedy dispose of excess glucose from the body.
Well, it is critically important to control diabetes. Once diagnosed as diabetic, you should have to critically control it or you are liable to come across many health complications.
It is critically important to control diabetes. Controlling diabetes means you have lesser risks of complications. Controlling diabetes means you are less likely to suffer from the complications arising out of diabetes. Controlling diabetes means lowering the risk of damage to the kidney, brain and eye.
Controlling diabetes means controlling the glucose level in the body. You have to maintain the right levels of your glucose, neither high nor low. Once you are found to be diabetic, you have to go for regular check ups, preferably once a week.
If you are traced with diabetes, it is better to be under the guidance of a physician as he may help you to maintain the right glucose levels. Do not try to treat diabetes on your own as it can only complicate matters.
An important aspect in controlling diabetes is to maintain proper diet. Always maintain a healthy eating habit, which helps in controlling diabetes. Do not go for heavy meals and instead cut short the meals into five or six smaller meals. Go for leafy vegetables and let your food be a balanced one with the right nutrients, vitamins and carbohydrates.
Along with a proper diet, exercise is also an important factor that helps in controlling diabetes. Exercise helps in the speedy dispose of excess glucose from the body.
Well, it is critically important to control diabetes. Once diagnosed as diabetic, you should have to critically control it or you are liable to come across many health complications.
Monday, July 20, 2009
Treating Diabetes Effectively
People are now much concerned of being diabetic. It is that no one can now ignore the fact that more and more people are becoming diabetic every day. Once you are diagnosed with diabetes, it is better to start treating it without further delay.
Treating diabetes does not mean taking diabetes pills or insulin injections. The first thing towards treating diabetes is to understand what diabetes is. Get know all aspects of this killer disease in all its ramifications. Know all the complications regarding diabetes. Knowing diabetes better is the first step towards treating diabetes.
The most important thing is to keep the blood sugar levels under control. You have to regularly monitor your blood sugar level. This will help you to check if your body is responding to the medications. It is better to check the blood sugar levels every day and if not check it once in two days.
Taking tablets or injecting insulin does not mean that you will have control over the blood sugar. A healthy life style combined with a perfect diet plan and good exercise helps in controlling the sugar levels.
Your body gets glucose from the food that you take so it is necessary to control the food that you eat. Instead of taking heavy meals, go for smaller meals. Eat only a balanced diet that contains the necessary proteins, fats and carbohydrates. You have to add more of fibres and vegetables in your diet. It is also better to reduce the alcohol consumption.
Well, once you have control over your glucose intake, the next thing is to maintain it. Exercise burns the glucose that you take and helps in maintaining your glucose level. It is said that exercise helps in keeping the body weight under control, which means you only have the required glucose level. Walking is a very good exercise.
Treating diabetes does not mean taking diabetes pills or insulin injections. The first thing towards treating diabetes is to understand what diabetes is. Get know all aspects of this killer disease in all its ramifications. Know all the complications regarding diabetes. Knowing diabetes better is the first step towards treating diabetes.
The most important thing is to keep the blood sugar levels under control. You have to regularly monitor your blood sugar level. This will help you to check if your body is responding to the medications. It is better to check the blood sugar levels every day and if not check it once in two days.
Taking tablets or injecting insulin does not mean that you will have control over the blood sugar. A healthy life style combined with a perfect diet plan and good exercise helps in controlling the sugar levels.
Your body gets glucose from the food that you take so it is necessary to control the food that you eat. Instead of taking heavy meals, go for smaller meals. Eat only a balanced diet that contains the necessary proteins, fats and carbohydrates. You have to add more of fibres and vegetables in your diet. It is also better to reduce the alcohol consumption.
Well, once you have control over your glucose intake, the next thing is to maintain it. Exercise burns the glucose that you take and helps in maintaining your glucose level. It is said that exercise helps in keeping the body weight under control, which means you only have the required glucose level. Walking is a very good exercise.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Pre diabetes; what’s it?
Pre diabetes is a condition in which the glucose level in the blood is higher than normal but not high enough for a diagnosis of diabetes. Well, it is seen that people with pre-diabetes are likely to develop Type 2 diabetes in ten years time.
It has also been stated that people with pre diabetes have an increased risk of heart disease and stroke.
Those who are pre- diabetic can delay or prevent developing Type 2 diabetes if they lead a healthy life style, which includes weight loss and moderate physical exercise.
It has also been stated that people with pre diabetes have an increased risk of heart disease and stroke.
Those who are pre- diabetic can delay or prevent developing Type 2 diabetes if they lead a healthy life style, which includes weight loss and moderate physical exercise.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Checking diabetes
There are very simple ways of detecting if you are diabetic or not. It is measured by checking the amount of glucose presence in the blood.
Fasting Plasma Glucose (FPG), Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT) and a random Plasma Glucose Test are used for diagnosing diabetes.
The FPG test is usually done in the morning a d it measures the glucose level in a person who has not eaten anything for at least eight hours. If a person has 100 to 125 mg/dL of glucose level, then he or she is having Impaired fasting Glucose, a type of pre-diabetes. And if the level increases above 125 mg/dl, then that person has diabetes.
The Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT) measures glucose level just before and two hours after the person drinks a liquid containing 75 gms of glucose dissolved in water. If the person’s glucose level after drinking the liquid is between 140 and 199 mg/dL, then he has a form of pre-diabetes called Impaired Glucose Tolerance. If the glucose level is above 199 mg/dl, then the person is diabetic.
A random plasma glucose test measures the glucose level without regard to when a person last ate.
Fasting Plasma Glucose (FPG), Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT) and a random Plasma Glucose Test are used for diagnosing diabetes.
The FPG test is usually done in the morning a d it measures the glucose level in a person who has not eaten anything for at least eight hours. If a person has 100 to 125 mg/dL of glucose level, then he or she is having Impaired fasting Glucose, a type of pre-diabetes. And if the level increases above 125 mg/dl, then that person has diabetes.
The Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT) measures glucose level just before and two hours after the person drinks a liquid containing 75 gms of glucose dissolved in water. If the person’s glucose level after drinking the liquid is between 140 and 199 mg/dL, then he has a form of pre-diabetes called Impaired Glucose Tolerance. If the glucose level is above 199 mg/dl, then the person is diabetic.
A random plasma glucose test measures the glucose level without regard to when a person last ate.
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