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unusual facts about Diabetes



Aldose reductase inhibitor

Aldose reductase inhibitors are a class of drugs being studied as a way to prevent eye and nerve damage in people with diabetes.

Arthur Grumiaux

Despite a struggle with diabetes, Grumiaux continued a rigorous schedule of recording and concert performances, primarily in Western Europe, until a sudden stroke in Brussels took his life in 1986 at the age of 65.

Autoimmunity

Recently, PTPN22 has been associated with multiple autoimmune diseases including Type I diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, Graves’ disease, Addison’s disease, Myasthenia Gravis, vitiligo, systemic sclerosis juvenile idiopathic arthritis, and psoriatic arthritis.

Baitullah Mehsud

Syed Saleem Shahzad, writing in the Asia Times, described Baitullah Mehsud as a physically small man, with diabetes.

Bernhard Naunyn

He published an important treatise on diabetes titled Der Diabetes Melitus (1898), and his Klinik der Cholelithiasis was translated into English by Archibald Garrod (1857-1936) as "A treatise on cholelithiasis" (1896).

Change for the Children Foundation

It was later renamed to Jonas Brothers Change for the Children Foundation in 2005 when Nick was diagnosed with diabetes.

Charles Joseph Tanret

Georges Tanret identified an alkaloid (galegine) from Galega officinalis that was evaluated in clinical trials in patients with diabetes in the 1920s and 1930s.

Developmental toxicity

Typical factors causing developmental toxicity are radiation, infections (e.g. rubella), maternal metabolic imbalances (e.g. alcoholism, diabetes, folic acid deficiency), drugs (e.g. anticancer drugs, tetracyclines, many hormones, thalidomide), and environmental chemicals (e.g. mercury, lead, dioxins, PBDEs, HBCD, tobacco smoke).

Dorian Gregory

Dorian is working to raise funds to help find a cure for diabetes and offering information to support people living with the disease.

Edward Patten

Patten suffered from diabetes, and died of a stroke at St. Mary's Hospital in Livonia, Michigan, where he resided, on February 25, 2005 at the age of 65.

Elijah Muhammad

On January 30, 1975, Muhammad entered Mercy Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, suffering from a combination of heart disease, diabetes, bronchitis, and asthma.

European Association for the Study of Diabetes

The Association holds annually an EASD Scientists Training Course and a Robert Turner Clinical Research Course to attract new talent to diabetes research in different centres throughout the world.

Frederick Madison Allen

These authors note that in the eighteenth century, John Rollo had observed that glycosuria in diabetics could be reduced if sufferers of diabetes mellitus reduced the quantity of their food consumed.

Gestational diabetes

Because glucose travels across the placenta (through diffusion facilitated by GLUT3 carriers), in untreated gestational diabetes the fetus is exposed to consistently higher glucose levels.

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals

In the formulation business, its business spans segments such as Dermatology, Internal Medicine, Paediatrics, Gynaecology, ENT and Diabetes.

Graham Windeatt

A company focusing on promoting a healthy lifestyle with a strong emphasis on Exercise, Nutrition and Target Heart rate Zones as recommended by Diabetes, Cancer, and Heart Groups.

Healthcare Improvement Scotland

There are over 120 Guidelines available on their website including ones in 2011 on early rheumatoid arthritis and in 2010 diabetes, obesity and Parkinson's disease.

Hirsutism

Metformin: Antihyperglycemic drug used for diabetes mellitus.

HLA DR3-DQ2

With coeliac disease risk is increased with the consumption of Triticeae glutens, and this also increases risk in juvenile diabetes whereas other cereals also appear to play a role.

IAPP

Islet amyloid polypeptide or Amylin, a protein produced by the pancreatic beta-cell that has been linked to type II Diabetes.

International Diabetes Center at Park Nicollet

Originally called the Diabetes Education and Detection Center, it was located in Asbury Methodist Hospital in downtown Minneapolis.

International Diabetes Center at Park Nicollet (IDC) is a center for diabetes care, research and education located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

International Diabetes Federation

World Diabetes Day, the primary awareness campaign of the diabetes world.

John A. Galloway

John A. Galloway (born December 8, 1928) is an endocrinologist who has made major contributions to the study and treatment of diabetes.

Joslin Diabetes Center

1980s: C. Ronald Kahn and his team define the molecular mechanism of insulin action and how it is altered in insulin resistant states such as type 2 diabetes and obesity.

Naturally Obsessed

Shot over three years’ time in the molecular biology laboratory of Dr. Lawrence Shapiro of the Columbia University Medical Center, the film chronicles how the tool of X-ray crystallography enables the discovery of the workings of the AMPK protein molecule, revealing a new path towards the treatment of diabetes and obesity.

Nellie Connally

The following year, Richard Nixon, Donald Trump, and Barbara Walters turned out for a gala to honor her and raise money for diabetes research.

Nina Arvesen

Actress Nina Arvesen support for charities including the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital for several years, Arvesen Has been involved in many charitable causes, including the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, The Make-A-Wish Foundation .

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

In the Pioglitazone versus Vitamin E versus Placebo for the Treatment of Nondiabetic Patients with Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (PIVENS) trial, for patients with NASH but without diabetes mellitus, the use of very high dosages of vitamin E (800 IU/day) for four years was associated with a significantly higher rate of improvement than placebo (43% vs. 19%) in the primary outcome.

Paul Janssen

2009: Axel Ullrich, PhD, director of the Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Germany, received the 2009 Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research for his pioneering work in applying molecular biology and molecular cloning to the discovery of protein therapeutics for the treatment of a wide range of diseases, including diabetes and cancer.

Pterocarpus marsupium

Kannada people in India make a wooden glass (tumbler) from the heartwood of this herb (tree) and its aqueous solution is used to cure diabetes.

Pulsatile insulin

Dr. Thomas Aoki, former Head of Metabolism Research at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, Massachusetts, and a current Professor of Medicine at the University of California, Davis, was the pioneer of using pulsatile insulin in the treatment of diabetes.

Rafael López Gutiérrez

He died in Amapala in March 1924, suffering from diabetes, after a failed attempt to escape to the United States for insulin treatment.

Roche Diagnostics

Internally, it is organized into five major business areas: Roche Applied Science, Roche Professional Diagnostics, Roche Diabetes Care, Roche Molecular Diagnostics and Roche Tissue Diagnostics (Ventana).

Ron and Tammys

In another subplot, Ann (Rashida Jones) asks Chris (Rob Lowe) to film a quick Public Service Announcement about diabetes, but the overly-enthusiastic Chris spends all day doing countless takes, making Ann wonder why she even dated him in the first place.

Susan Alberti

In 1997 she received an AM (Member of the Order of Australia) for her contribution towards the cause of diabetes research.

Synthalin

The folk remedy French lilac (Galega officinalis), was used to treat the symptoms of diabetes, and towards the end of the nineteenth century it was discovered to contain guanidine.

Tabby's Place

Tabby's Place houses many "special needs" cats, adopting a philosophy that even cats with serious health conditions such as diabetes, Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV), neurological disabilities, cancer, blindness and paraplegia should be able to live with dignity, to have a loving home, and to be adopted.

Telehealth

Three thousand and thirty people with one of three conditions (Diabetes, Chronic Heart Failure and COPD) were included in the telehealth trial.

Terry Mercer

Mercer has been an administrator and fundraiser for numerous charitable organizations such as the Kidney Foundation of Canada, St. John Ambulance, the Nova Scotia Lung Association, the YMCA and the Canadian Diabetes Association and is currently Past Chair of the Association of Fundraising Professionals' Foundation for Philanthropy in Canada.

Tessa's Troopers

Over the past 14 years, Tessa's Troopers has raised over 6 million dollars for research for Type 1 Diabetes with the majority of funds being donated to JDRF.

After being diagnosed with Juvenile Diabetes at age 8, Tessa Wick and her family Douglas Wick, Lucy Fisher, Sarah Wick and Julia Wick founded Tessa's Troopers as a walk team for JDRF's annual Walk to Cure Diabetes in 2000.

The Diabetes Duo: Captain Glucose and Meter Boy

The Diabetes Duo characters was created by two professional television actors, Bill Kirchenbauer and Brad Slaight.

Captain Glucose and Meter Boy: The Diabetes Duo are internationally known and have been featured on many professional sites and blogs including International Diabetes Federation and contributed to their World Diabetes Day project; Diabetes Hands Foundation.

Vesanto Melina

Her father was physiologist Ed Goranson who specialized in diabetes working in the Toronto lab of Sir Frederick Banting and Charles H. Best who received a Nobel prize for the discovery of insulin; he taught physiology at the University of Toronto and the University of British Columbia,and did cancer research at Princess Margaret Hospital and at Mill Hill in London England.

Walkathon

Most commonly, Walkathons focus on fighting or curing pervasive diseases or ailments such as AIDS, Cancer, Diabetes, Lupus, and Arthritis, and participation is also often promoted as a symbol of empowerment, remembrance, or awareness of sufferers and their relations.

Wily Mo Peña

In 2007, Wily Mo Peña and his MoPeace Foundation teamed up with Joslin Diabetes Center's Latino Diabetes Initiative for the Beisbol y Salud Latino Diabetes and Health Festival to educate Latino men, women and children about type 2 diabetes.


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