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Data from the United States and Japan advance knowledge in diabetes research

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, October 9th, 2006

Diabetes data are the focus of recent research from the United States and Japan.

Study 1: Nocturnal hypoglycemia is common in type 1 diabetes, but a bedtime snack or terbutaline were not adequate treatments.

"We assessed four putative bedtime treatments in the prevention of nocturnal hypoglycemia in type 1 diabetes. Plasma glucose concentrations were measured every 15 min from 2200 h through 0700 h in 21 patients with type 1 diabetes (mean±SD HbA1C =7.1±1.0%) on five occasions with, in random sequence, bedtime (2200 h) administration of 1) no treatment, 2) a snack, 3) the snack plus the alpha-glucosidase inhibitor acarbose,...

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