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Cellular jetlag seems to favor the development of diabetes Science Daily With type 2 diabetes affecting younger and younger people in the western world, researchers work on understanding how lifestyle changes in recent decades contribute to this ever-expanding epidemic, in the view of finding news strategies to curb it ... and more »

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Novel Diabetes Drugs May Protect Heart (AZN, LLY) Investopedia A new class of drugs called SGLT-2 inhibitors has demonstrated significant reduction of risks associated with death and hospitalization for heart failure in diabetes patients, compared to other therapies. The data was presented at the American College ... Newer type 2 diabetes drugs show heart protective quality in studyReuters Diabetes meds from AZ, J&J and Lilly sharply cut death rates in real-world analysisFiercePharma Real world study shows cardiovascular benefit to SGLT-2 drugsBioPharma Dive Proactive Investors UK -Diabetes.co.uk -iNVEZZ all 18 news articles »

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By Bill Berkrot | WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON A newer class of type 2 diabetes drugs significantly cut the risk of death and hospitalization for heart failure compared with other medicines for the disease, according to data released on Sunday from a so-called real world study sponsored by AstraZeneca.

The drugs, known as SGLT-2 inhibitors, work by removing blood sugar via the urine and include Astra's Farxiga, Jardiance from Eli Lilly and Co and Boehringer Ingelheim, and Invokana from Johnson & Johnson.

Jardiance caused a stir in 2015, when a clinical trial conducted to reassure it does not cause heart problems instead showed it reduced the combined risk of hospitalization for heart failure or death from heart failure by 39 percent in high risk patients. The heart benefit has since been incorporated into Jardiance's label.

AstraZeneca is conducting its own large clinical trials to determine the heart effect of Farxiga with results expected in 2019.

But the latest data presented by Dr. Mikhail Kosiborod at the American College of Cardiology scientific meeting in Washington appears to indicate that heart protection is not limited to Jardiance.

"The fact that the results are remarkably consistent from country to country regardless of which compound predominates, that certainly seems to suggest that it's a class effect," said Kosiborod, a cardiologist from Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas City. He noted that most Americans in the data were taking Invokana, while Farxiga was dominant in Europe.

The study, which analyzed data from more than 300,000 type 2 diabetes patients collected from six countries, found the SGLT-2 drugs slashed the combined risk of hospitalization for heart failure and death from any cause by 46 percent.

The data was obtained from real-world sources, such as medical records, claims databases and national registers.

Most patients were taking Farxiga or Invokana with less than 10 percent on Jardiance. The comparator medicines included a wide variety of diabetes treatments, including metformin, DPP-4 inhibitors, such as Merck & Co's Januvia, and insulin, among others.

The vast majority of patients had no history of heart disease. But heart disease is the number one killer of people with diabetes, and mounting evidence of heart protective qualities of SGLT-2 drugs could lead to greater use.

"This class has a real potential of improving patient outcomes," Kosiborod said.

Given the observational nature of the study the possibility of unmeasured confounding factors exists, researchers noted.

More than 400 million people worldwide have diabetes, of whom at least 90 percent have type 2.

(This story has been refiled to add word in last paragraph)

(Reporting by Bill Berkrot; Editing by Phil Berlowitz)

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The Resource Center at Missoula Aging Services (MAS) is partnering with the MSU Extension Office and others to offer a six-week course for older adults with diabetes or pre-diabetes. The Diabetes Empowerment Education Program (DEEP) is available free to Medicare participants and their caregivers.

Classes will help people with diabetes learn how to take charge of their health and get control of the disease. While they are designed for older adults with Medicare, anyone with diabetes or pre-diabetes is welcome to attend. Courses will be held Tuesdays from 10 to 11:30 a.m., beginning Tuesday, March 28, and continuing through May 2, at the Missoula County Extension Office, 2825 Santa Fe Court.

Please call MAS at 406-728-7682 for more information or to register, or go to deepclasses.eventbrite.com to register online. Additional partners include Mountain-Pacific Quality Health, Everyone with Diabetes Counts (EDC), and the Montana Geriatric Education Center.

The YWCA Missoula invites you to LUNAFEST, a local event hosted by the GUTS! (Girls using their strengths) Program. GUTS! partners with LUNAFEST, an exciting national film festival featuring short films by, for and about women, to highlight the capacity, strength and beauty of women in film and young women of Missoula. This event will raise funds for our Summer Outdoor Adventure Trips and a smaller percentage for the Breast Cancer Fund. LUNAFEST will be held on Wednesday, April 19, at the Wilma Theater in downtown Missoula. Doors open for our silent auction at 6 p.m. and the show starts at 7 p.m. Tickets are $15 in advance, $18 day of show.

Child Care Resources training: Spring Conference is set for Saturday, April 1. How do we create rich environments that meet early childhood standards and allow children and their teachers to flourish?

As an active participant, sharing photos and discussing and brainstorming environmental successes and challenges in your child care program. Youll also create a design for one learning center that you can immediately begin to create in your program.

This conference will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, April, 1. This training is $25, and is worth six training hours.

Application workshops for anyone interested in applying to build a home in partnership with Habitat for Humanity of Missoula will be held Sunday, April 2, at 2 p.m. and Wednesday, April 5, at 7 p.m.

Workshops will be held in the conference room at the YWCA located at 1130 West Broadway.

No child care will be available at either meeting.

Applications will be available at the meetings. Access to our applications on our website or to pick up at our office will be available on Tuesday, April 4. Completed applications must be submitted by 5 p.m. on Friday, April 21.

Call 406-549-8210 for more information.

To help older adultswho want to get better control of their diabetes, Mountain-Pacific Quality Health, the Medicare Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) for Montana, Ag Worker Health & Services and the Montana Geriatric Education Center are partnering together to offer a series of six, free diabetes classes. These classes provide fun, informative and interactive ways to help people with diabetes or pre-diabetes (high blood sugar)

The classes support, not replace, professional diabetes self-management education. The classes are designed for people age 65 and older. Ag Worker Health & Services will make future announcements about any classes or events for those younger than 65.

The series kicks off Monday, April 17, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., at Ag Worker Health and Services at 9801 Valley Grove Drive #D, which is about a half mile north of Lolo on Highway 93. Classes will then meet every Monday through May 22. Anyone interested in attending theses classes can register by calling 406-273-4633.

Humanities Montana awarded a $900 grant to The Montana Racial Equity Project to support the Native American Race Relations and Healing Symposium. The day-long event will feature two panel discussions lead by authors, historians, language preservationists, and experts including John Robinson and Sterling HolyWhiteMountain. The first panel will focus on tribal sovereignty and the second will explore current issues facing the Native American population. The event will take place on Saturday, April 1, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the Native American Studies Building at the University of Montana.

Humanities Montana awarded a $1,000 grant to the Wedsworth Memorial Library to fund a monthly book discussion. Dr. Penny Hughes-Briant will host eight discussions from August 2017 to May 2018. All events will be held at the Wedsworth Memorial Library in Cascade.

Humanities Montana awarded a $1,000 grant to Columbus High School to fund the Yellowstone National Park Inquiry Project. Students will research and build projects on the impacts that visitors have on Yellowstone National Parks animals, ecosystem, environment, and cultural values.

Humanities Montana is the states independent, nonprofit state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Molly Aukes, a Century Elementary physical education teacher, is one of the organizers of the walk and says the week of education, awareness and fundraising for type 1 (T1D) and type 2 (T2D) diabetes research began as a discussion within the department.

"We all have or have had students with T1D and this will be a fact-filled week that will allow kids and families to learn together," she said. "The education and awareness is our main focus, but the fundraising is critical as well as all the money raised will go to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation for research."

The community is invited to join the School Walk to Cure Diabetes on March 25 to hear from kids and adults living with T1D and T2D, visit booths with information from community partners including Essentia Clinic, CHI St. Joseph's Hospital, Lions Club, Coborns and Novo Nordisc.

Tia Kocka, certified diabetes educator and certified bariatric nurse at St. Joseph's, is helping to raise awareness and educate the community.

"This is a great opportunity to educate the kids at the school and the community on diabetes, both type 1 and type 2," she said. "There are a lot of misconceptions about kids with type 1 diabetes; for example, that they can't have any sugar. People with type 1 diabetes are normal healthy people, but they have to be their own pancreas by delivering the correct amount of insulin for the amount of carbs in the foods they eat."

Type 1 typically occurs in early adults and younger children; however, can occur at any age of life. The pancreas is attacked and no longer makes insulin. A person with type 1 diabetes needs to give themselves insulin via insulin pens, needles or insulin pump to stay alive.

Type 2 diabetes can occur at any age, typically age 40 or older.

"We, as a nation, are seeing a rise in children with type 2 diabetes, in large part due to inactivity and obesity on the rise," Kocka said. "This type of diabetes occurs due to insulin resistance. A person's pancreas is still working, it just doesn't make enough insulin and the body is resistant to using the insulin."

A person with type 2 diabetes can sometimes manage with diet and exercise alone, oral medications and insulin, if needed.

Money raised for JDRF goes toward diabetes research, and Kocka points out, the research has allowed for many advancements in new technology to make life easier to manage type 1 diabetes, with JDRF's ultimate goal to find a cure.

Living with diabetes

Century Elementary first grade teacher Jenny Corbin and husband Evan found out about four years ago their little boy, Nick, had diabetes.

Nick is a six-year-old kindergarten student at Century, and the family will be participating in the local JDRF walk. They've done the JDRF walk in Minneapolis the last few years and are looking forward to the Park Rapids walk.

"It's nice to have one more local. A lot of people will be there and it really gives the kids something to look forward to, classmates and friends can take part," Jenny said.

When Nick was 2 years old, he was sick and Jenny said they had no idea what was going on at the time. Nick was lethargic, took long naps and his appetite was gone. He was extremely thirsty and all he wanted to do was drink, which led to a lot of bathroom breaks, Jenny recalls. The signs were there and they suspected diabetes. Nick went to the emergency room in Staples as a "pretty sick little boy" and that's where it was confirmed he had type 1 diabetes.

Now Nick has an insulin pump which administers insulin and manages blood sugar throughout the day. He sees a pediatric endocrinologist in St. Cloud every three months to look at his blood sugar average and make adjustments to the pump as needed. Other than that, Jenny says, Nick is like all the other kids his age. Part of her participating in the education week and community walk is to help people better understand diabetes and help clear up any misconceptions.

"It's nice to see the support for the kids and raise awareness," Jenny said. "Treat him like a normal kid. I worry, is he going to be excluded from things? I worry about him being left out. He's still a happy, healthy kid and we want to keep him that way."

That happy, healthy kid will be wearing his Superman cape for the Park Rapids walk on March 25.

Support groups

CHI St. Joseph's Health hosts a D1 Kids Club every second Monday of the month from 6 to 7 p.m. Family and friends are welcome to the meeting which promotes knowledge and fun for the kids with diabetes.

The Corbin family attends this group, and Jenny says it's a great time for kids and parents to learn about diabetes and participate in activities.

"For parents, it's nice to share tips and ideas. It's nice to be with people that understand it and know what you're going through."

Another diabetes support group also meets at St. Joseph's the second Tuesday of the month from 9 to 10 a.m. with a variety of topics and speakers featured.

For more information contact Tia Kocka at 218-255-3684 or tiakocka@catholichealth.net

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Posted on March 19, 2017

12-year-old Naperville resident Paige Laurinec was diagnosed with type one diabetes when she was 8-years-old.

Everyday I wake up and I know what I have to do, during the day Ive adapted to carrying a purse with me to hold all my stuff, when lunch comes around I know I have to check and count all my carbs, explained Paige Laurinec.

Its what she and around 200,000 children who are diagnosed with type one diabetes endure everyday as the disease stops their pancreas from creating insulin. That means they need to replace it to maintain their health.

Insulin actually acts to lower your blood sugar it does a lot of different things to allow cells to uptake blood sugar and through multiple different activities it allows us to control our blood sugar, explained Dr. Jim Lengemann, Co-Medical Director of Edward Medical Group.

Local business owner Debbie Kliegl wanted to do her part to raise awareness of the disease and help find a cure. So she hosted a fundraiser donating 30% of all proceeds from Yogurt Beach on March 14 to help kids in our area that suffer from the disease.

We want to connect with our community and make a difference, we want people to understand were here for them, were a business, yeah,but were here to help the community. They help us and we help them, we want to work together, said Kliegl.

While doctors arent sure how long finding a cure may take, mothers of Paige and five-year-old Cayden, who also suffers from the disease, are hopeful more people will become educated about type one and help fund researchfor a cure.

A lot of people just dont know the difference, like oh if you eat too much sugar youll get diabetes, its really not true, especially with type one. I just pray for a cure everyday and I try to educate as much as I can and get involved as much as I can, said Sue Laurinec, Paiges Mom.

I know that were leaps and bounds further then we were years ago so were all hoping that for a cure. I dont know if were ever going to find it but we just choose to support it and hope that Cayden will see a cure in his lifetime, said Amy Nottke, Caydens Mom.

A sweet dream for the future.

Naperville News 17s Alyssa Bochenek reports.

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Gluten-free diets may be one of the most popular eating regimens, but a new study says it could be bad for your health.

Researchfrom Harvard University indicates that gluten may help lower the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. In a long-term study, the team found that most people typically ate below 12 grams of gluten per day. Those who ate the most had a decreased chance of developing Type 2 diabetes. Naturally, those who ate less gluten also consumed less cereal fiber, which is known to protect against Type 2 diabetes.

A gluten-free pasta product of Italian food company Barilla is offered at a supermarket of Swiss retail group Coop in Zumikon, Switzerland December 13, 2016. Reuters

People who ate the most gluten, in the top 20 percent, had a 14 percent lower risk of developing diabetes than those with the lowest consumption, about four grams or less of gluten per day.

A protein found in wheat, rye, and barley, gluten can make people with a sensitivity or Celiac disease sick. Despite the small population of people suffering from Celiac or gluten sensitivity, the diet has become mainstream.

Gluten-free foods often have less dietary fiber and other micronutrients, making them less nutritious and they also tend to cost more," Geng Zong, Ph.D., and research fellow at Harvard Universitys T.H. Chan School of Public Health,says in a statement. People without Celiac disease may reconsider limiting their gluten intake for chronic disease prevention, especially for diabetes.

The team looked at the gluten intake of 199,794 participants.

According to market researchfirm NDP group, only about 25 percent of people living in a gluten-free home do so because of a food sensitivity or Celiac.

One reason some believe gluten-free diets are healthy is because they lose weight. But experts say this is likely due to cutting out junk food and not about the actual gluten. If you do eliminate wheat, nutrition specialist Heather Mangieri tellsScientific Americanto sub in a healthy, naturally gluten-free grain, such as quinoa or buckwheat.

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Reversing Type 2 Diabetes

Type 2 diabetes, a disease wherein the body is incapable of producing sufficient levels of insulin or doesnt respond to insulin correctly, can be a lifelong disease. It leads to the build up of blood sugars andin the cells inability to receive the energy it needs to function correctly. Its also more likely to afflict people over the age of 40, those who are overweight, or anyone whose family has a history of diabetes.

Prior to this research, there was no definitive cure for type 2 diabetes, although experts have long hypothesized that it could be reversible. A team of Canadian scientists have demonstrated that this theory is indeed correct. In some patients, type 2 diabetes can be reversedthrough a combination of lifestyle changes, intensive medical treatment using oral medication, and insulin therapy. The researchers published their study in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

They tested their theory in diabetic patients who had been symptomatic for up to three years. The subjects underwent a personalized exercise regimen, and a strict diet that closely watched and limited their calorie intake to just 500 to 700 a day, and pharmacological treatment withglucose-controlling drugs.

Four months after the intervention, the study revealed that 40 percent of the 83 subjects were able to effectively stop taking their medications, staying in partial or even complete remission.

The results of this pilot study suggest patients with type 2 diabetes have more options to treat their condition,said the studys first author, Natalia McInnes, of McMaster University.

The findings support the notion that type 2 diabetes can be reversed, at least in the short term not only with bariatric surgery, but with medical approaches, McInnes said in an Endocrine Society press release. The research might shift the paradigm of treating diabetes from simply controlling glucose to an approach where we induce remission and then monitor patients for any signs of relapse.

According to the Societys Endocrine Facts and Figures report, one out of 10 American adults suffer from type 2 diabetes.Raising the possibility of reversing the disease can prove to be strong motivation for patients to actually make lifestyle changes and maintain them, McInnes said. This new treatment could also give the patients pancreases a rest and lower fat stores in their bodies, thus improving insulin production in the long run.

Right now, the treatment has proven to be effective only in the short term, but further study and other drug combinations could ultimately lead to better results and higher remission rates.

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New role for immune cells in preventing diabetes and hypertension Science Daily Immune cells which are reduced in number by obesity could be a new target to treat diseases such as type 2 diabetes and hypertension that affect overweight people, according to a collaborative study between the University of Manchester, Lund University ... Targeting immune cells could treat diabetes and high blood ...FierceBiotech all 2 news articles »

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