blood sugar control

(University at Buffalo) Exenatide, a drug commonly prescribed to help patients with Type 2 diabetes improve blood sugar control, also has a powerful and rapid anti-inflammatory effect, a University at Buffalo study has shown.

(University of Maryland Medical Center) The University of Maryland School of Medicine has found that mobile phone software is effective for the self-management of diabetes.

The study, published in September in Diabetes Care, is one of the first to examine the new field of mobile health.

Researchers found that a key measure of blood sugar control -- blood levels of hemoglobin A1c -- was lowered by an average of 1.9 percent over one year in patients using the mobile health program.

There's a new bonus to good blood sugar control: better recall.

Diabetics who tightly control their blood sugar (AP) -- even if only for the first decade after they are diagnosed - have lower risks of heart attack, death and other complications 10 or more years later, a large follow-up study has found....