Treatment and diagnosis of Type II Diabetes has been well studied, but little is known about the condition that leads to the disease, known as pre-diabetes.
Now doctors are trying to change that.
Members of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists created recommendations for the treatment of people with pre-diabetes. It’s a condition where a person's blood glucose is higher than normal but not high enough to be diabetes.
They say patients who are obese, those with metabolic syndrome, those with a family history of the disease, and women who had gestational diabetes should have their glucose checked.
Any cardiovascular problems patients have should be addressed as they may be a risk factor for Type II Diabetes.
And in other medical news…
Drugs normally used to lower cholesterol may also help kidney transplant patients.
Researchers at the Medical University of Vienna studied more than 2,000 patients who had a kidney transplant between 1990 and 2003.
They found 73 percent of patients who had been taking statin drugs were alive 12 years after the study started, compared to 64 percent of those not taking the drugs.
Researchers caution there are flaws with this study and more research is needed before statins are routinely recommended for transplant patients.