Diabetes in Science

Diabetes is considered a major health problem with increasing prevalence, and leading cause of morbidity, mortality and vast complications. In order to determine if a patient is diagnosed with diabetes, there are a number of metabolic biomarkers that are taken in consideration, and currently serum uric acid is not included.

Studies have often shown that there's an association between blood pressure, diabetes and obesity and that's what has been strengthened by a recently published study under Research in Endocrinology Journal. The research has studied levels of some hormones and proteins in a group of patients' bodies. A group of researchers from the center of...

Obesity plays a key role in developing diabetes as there's a relation between serum leptin made by fat cells and insulin. Several studies validated that serum leptin resistance may lead to insulin resistance and diabetes, and many researchers tried to discover how physical exercises can affect fat serum and insulin resistance including a new...

Liver is an important element for digestive system in particular and body in general with multiple functions including production of biochemicals, detoxification, among other roles. Also liver is vital for blood considering the decomposition of red blood cells, plasma protein synthesis, as well as its functionality in relation with different diseases that touch blood such...

WHO defines obesity as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that presents a risk to health. The obese person is the one with a BMI of 30 or more, to distinguish it from an overweight person who has a BMI between 25 and 30. A person becomes obese when there isn't balance between calories he eats...

Diabetes is one of the most prevalent diseases of the modern time affecting large numbers over the world. It is estimated that the disease will reach around 4.4 % of the worldwide population in 2030 after it was only 2.2% in 2000. The number of affected people is expected to rise from 171 million...

Managing diabetes requires some sort of strict life style to making control of medicines prescribed by doctor so as to take command of one's diet. This managing challenge increases when the affected person is a young person or adolescent and has type 1 diabetes. The latter is a metabolic disease that usually affects young people...