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Filter by:The study will be carried out at the hospital of the medical school of sao paulo (HC-FMUSP) and the goal is to compare the effects of the administration of myo-inositol in relation to the effects of metformin in women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and insulin resistance or glucose intolerance. Menstrual cycle, hyperandrogenism, chronic inflammatory process, carbohydrate metabolism, hepatic steatosis will be evaluated. In total, 60 women in the reproductive period, with a variable age between 18 and 36 years old will be recruited and randomized in two groups: intervention- myo-inositol for 6 months, control group will use metformin also for 6 months.
The investigators will conduct a single-arm mixed methods pilot study to examine the feasibility and acceptability of a low-carbohydrate diabetes prevention program (LC-DPP). The investigators will estimate weight loss as well as the percentage of participants who achieve 5% body weight loss at 6 month and 12 month timepoints. Weight loss from the pilot VA LC-DPP cohort will be compared to weight loss outcomes from previously published DPP studies and the VA MOVE! program. The investigators will also evaluate secondary outcomes including change in physical activity, mental health, psychosocial functioning, and hemoglobin A1c over the 12-month study period. The investigators will also conduct qualitative interviews with participants at 6 and 12 months.
Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) is a serious chronic condition and one of the world's fastest growing health problems. The onset of T2DM is gradual, with most individuals progressing through a state of pre-diabetes, which provides an important window of opportunity for the prevention of T2DM and its complications. This project aims to translate the evidence-based diabetes prevention strategies into community setting and utilize mobile health technology to reduce diabetes risks in Hong Kong.
There is an urgent need to engineer targeted physical activity interventions that are effective and scalable for obese adolescents and young adults (AYA) with type 2 diabetes (T2D), who often have very low levels of physical activity. The BEAM Trial is a proposed mobile health (mHealth) intervention that uses behavioral economic-informed financial incentives and text messaging to promote physical activity in AYA with T2D and prediabetes.
This project is designed to test for the first time whether glucose metabolism is differentially impaired by sleep restriction with and without additional exposure to artificial light at night (ALAN).
According to the data from the Di@bet.es study, which is part of the National Diabetes Strategy, the prevalence of type 2 diabetes among Spanish population is 13.8%. Diabetic patients suffer from several short and long term complications, which are related to a significant worsen of quality of life and a substantial increase in death rate. In this sense, it is important to prevent the development of Type 2 diabetes. Therefore, it is of high relevance to identify and to treat prediabetic subjects prior to the development of the disease. Many strategies have been implemented to reverse this situation, such as changes in diet and lifestyle, among others. However, it is hard to achieve changes in lifestyle and despite the use of some drugs in this phase of the disease, the problem continues growing. For this reason, new strategies to combat the development of type 2 diabetes are been investigated, such as the use of probiotic formulations. However, at the moment, few studies evidence the effect of probiotics on glycemic regulation. Therefore, an interesting opportunity arises according to the potential ability of probiotic formulation for the control of prediabetes. Considering this background, the main objective of this research is to assess the effect of a new probiotic formulation on glycemic control, insulin resistance and the composition of the fecal microbiota in prediabetic subjects.
The investigators plan to examine whether teaching people at risk for type two diabetes to use self-compassion (orientation to care for oneself during difficult situations) helps them self-manage and increase their physical activity. People at risk for type 2 diabetes will learn about their type 2 diabetes risk and strategies to increase their physical activity, which represents the recommended information that people at risk for type two diabetes should receive. In addition to this, some participants, but not all, will be taught to be self-compassionate in relation to their type two diabetes risk and their efforts to increase their physical activity. The investigators expect that people who receive the additional training about how to be self-compassionate will engage in more physical activity than people who do not and they will do so because of self-compassion's positive effect on aspects of self-management - adaptive reactions and a tendency to use strong self-management skills. This study is important for health promotion because it allows the investigators to determine whether they can improve how they currently help people prevent type 2 diabetes through engaging in physical activity.
With current antiretroviral therapy, people living with HIV reach virological suppression faster, which in turn leads to a higher life expectancy. Nevertheless, this improved survival rate is not free of other comorbidities, such as metabolic syndrome, characterized by a decrease in glucose tolerance and an increase in insulin resistance. Berberine is an alkaloid that has proven beneficial effects on both glucose tolerance and insulin resistance, but has not been tested in people living with HIV under virological suppression. We hypothesize that berberine will improve inflammatory markers and metabolic profile in this population without significant interactions nor adverse effects.
The association of hyperglycaemia in pregnancy (gestational diabetes mellitus; GDM) with adverse maternal and fetal outcomes is clearly recognised. Traditionally the diagnosis is made at 28 weeks gestation at which stage children of affected women already have a two-fold rate of excessive weight gain (abdominal circumference > 90th percentile). This is attributed to fetal exposure to undiagnosed high blood glucose earlier in pregnancy. Indeed almost 25% of women with GDM develop the condition before 20 weeks gestation. Interventional studies in women diagnosed in the late second trimester have shown benefits in reducing fetal macrosomia. It is unknown whether screening in the first trimester would predict fetal macrosomia and allow more timely and effective intervention. To examine this question, we propose a prospective cohort study of 1,662 women at increased risk of GDM to determine if an elevated HbA1c (39-48mmool/l) in early pregnancy (<14 weeks) can identify babies at risk of excessive weight gain in later pregnancy, as determined by ultrasound measurement of abdominal circumference at 28 weeks gestation. The study will be largely integrated into routine clinical practice enabling a large number of women to participate. Study participants will all undergo formal screening (75g oral glucose tolerance test) for GDM at 28 weeks gestation. Secondary outcomes, namely the ability of early pregnancy HbA1c to predict later maternal GDM, and fetal and maternal complications of pregnancy will also be evaluated. The results of this study, if positive, are likely to impact upon patient care almost immediately following study completion. In addition, given the stability of the Northern Ireland population, the relatively unique data set will facilitate future work on predictive markers for cardiovascular disease, and prospective studies on the cardiovascular consequences of GDM on both mother and baby.
There are an estimate 7 million people in the United Kingdom living with pre-diabetes. The increasing number of new cases of pre-diabetes presents a global health concern due to funding implications. The progression from pre-diabetes to overt type 2 diabetes is often characterised by a reduction in insulin secretion (or β-cell dysfunction). Whilst inflammation may contribute to β-cell dysfunction, a complete picture is still lacking. The proposed research will help develop a more complete understanding of the molecules that may trigger β-cell failure, a process that often connects pre-diabetes to overt diabetes. The aims of this project are; 1. Run large-scale proteomics and metabolomics analysis in pre-diabetic individuals to determine possible biomarker molecules. 2. Use measures and / or classifications of insulin resistance and diabetes (i.e. β-cell function and Disposition Index) to establish whether particular metabolic and / or proteomic signatures (aim 1) are associated with the development of pre-diabetes. 3. To determine if the possible metabolite or protein profile changes are associated with the progression or regression of pre-diabetes from baseline (0 month) to the end of the National Diabetes Prevention Programme (NDPP) (9 month).