Type 1 diabetes in children risk rises with celiac disease

A recent study done in Sweden found that children who have celiac disease are three time more likely to have type 1 diabetes. Allergy to gluten is the main cause of celiac disease, gluten is basically found in wheat. Celiac disease symptoms are pain, intestinal cramping, diarrhea, bloating, and weight loss.

In another study it is found that most children who have type 1 diabetes have celiac disease, As Danish researches said.

Dr. Ludvigsson of the Orebro University Hospital and colleagues used the Swedish National inpatient register during the period 1964 to 2003 to study 9243 patients. Theses patients had celiac disease in the age before 20.

The results of the study showed that children who had celiac disease are more likely to suffer from type 1 diabetes. Therefore it is recommended to do diabetes check if some one suffers from celiac disease.

Reducing smoking is not enough to prevent tobacco related diseases


It is found by researches that smoking connected diseases only can be prevented by stopping the use of tobacco. The study which took 20 years done on 51,000 men and women to find the results of cutting the use of tobacco on heart disease and lung cancer and other tobacco related diseases, those people were at risk of heart disease at the start of the study.

The long term results were more considerable on people with high rate of smoking 15 cigarettes daily, those who stopped smoking had lower risk of heart disease than people who reduced smoking rate. However the short term effects of dying due to heart disease and other diseases did not show major difference between people who cut and did not cut smoking.

The number of people who die due to heart disease and cancer caused by smoking is expected to double in the next 15 years. In order to prevent tobacco related diseases smokers must not only reduce smoking but stop it.

Heart disease risk can be reduced with folic acid

British researches found that folic acid may reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke and by reducing levels of amino acid homocysteine. David Wald said: “reducing levels of amino acid homocysteine can reduce the risk of heart disease by 10 to 20 percent.

Folic acid which is suggested for women in the early period of pregnancy is actually a compound of folate (a B vitamin can be founded in green leafy vegetables and liver). Homocysteine causes heart disease by damaging the inside layer of arteries.

The results showed that people who have more homocysteine are more likely to get cardiovascular disease. This enough amount of vegetables per day.

Homocysteine is one of many factors which raise the risk of heart disease which are smoking, obesity and lack of exercises or heredity.

Byetta is approved for sale in Europe


The European health regulators accepted the sale of Byetta which is used to treat type 2 diabetes, it is a new type of diabetes medicines which is famous as incretin mimetics This medicine is made by Eli Lilly and Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc. The approval came after a group of advisory at the European Medicines Agency had sowed a good view on the medicine in last September. The medicine was approved for peaople who have not achieved sufficient blood sugar manage on metformin or a sulfonylurea or both.
It is expected to start selling the drug in 2007 in Europe. However, Byetta was approved for sale in the U.S in 2005, April.
On the other hand there is a tough competitor for Byetta which is Januvia, this medicine was made by Merck & Co. Inc and approved in the U.S in last October.
The results of the researches which done on Byetta showed that patients who took Byetta lost some weight which is one of the main causes of type two diabetes.

Heart disease and belly fat childrens

U.S. researches said American children are more likely to heart disease specially diabetes, because of the obesity which is increasing between children in the U.S.A. There is a 65% increase of stomach fat between children from 1990s. Stomach fat is more dangerous than normal obesity, because it surrounds the internal organs.

By measuring the circumference of the stomach, the study which was done by Dr. Chaoyang Li from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Stephen from University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in New York found that 10.5% of girls and moth have a stomach fat in 1999, while in 2004 the figures raised to reach 17.4% for boys and 17.8 for girls.

Many researches found that measuring waist circumference can tell you if you are healthy or not, this is better than calculating body weight and height. A belly fat person may not have a fat body.

LVAD can save people from heart disease symptoms

British researchers reported on November 1st, 2006 a device that may do what have been thought it is impossible, that device helps strongly damaged hearts pump. It may repeal heart failure and save people who are their death is soon from symptoms of heart disease.

The device is called LVAD (left ventricular assist device) can encourage the heart to work better, if the suggested drugs were used with the LVAD, according to the researchers.

For the time being, a result of another study approved that statin drug can reduce the dangers of heart attack and heart strokes and other heart disease. This may reduce the number of people who die by heart failure by 24%. Both studies were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association and New England Journal of Medicine.

Sir Magdi Yacoub from Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospital and Dr. Emma Birks from Imperial College London the leaders of this study, tested the LVAD in 15 patients who had severe heart failure with variety of drugs. After one year 11 of the patients were ok to take away the LVAD. One of the patients who had the pump taken died immediately and another one died because of cancer and a third one needed a transplant.

Approximately, there are 5 million Americans who suffer from heart failure and 550,000 cases are reported yearly according to the latest statistics. More than half of them die after two years.

The LVAD device was made by Thoratec. The LVAD transfers the blood from the heart to the arteries of the body, for this reason it reduce the stress on the heart. The researchers gave the patients a variety of drugs to reduce the size of the heart and build its muscle.

The eight survivals are enjoying their normal life and doing their daily responsibilities actively. However, the treatment by LVAD way is risky and not cheap, it costs about $124,000.