Stress may play a key role in the development of type 2 diabetes in obese black women, U.S. researchers say.

“Much attention has been given to the role of obesity in the development of type 2 diabetes, but stress may be as important in this at-risk population,” study co-author Anastasia Georgiades, of Duke University in Durham, N.C., said in a news release.

The study included 62 healthy, non-diabetic black women who were asked to recall stressful life events. As they did, the researchers measured the women’s levels of blood sugar and epinephrine, the “fight or flight” hormone that’s released in reaction to stress.

Women with high epinephrine levels (25 picograms or more per milliliter of blood) while recalling stressful events and with more belly fat (33 percent or more of total body fat) had significantly higher fasting glucose scores (about 100 milligrams per deciliter) than women with lower epinephrine levels and less belly fat (85 mg/dl). A fasting blood glucose level of 100 mg/dl is considered within the low range of pre-diabetes, and a level of 125 mg/dl is the benchmark for type 2 diabetes.

Women with high epinephrine levels and more belly fat also had bigger increases in blood sugar levels during the stress test.

The findings were to be presented this week at the annual scientific meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society.

“While we don’t fully understand the nature of the association, women with abdominal obesity may be more vulnerable to the impact of stress — causing their body to increase blood sugar production and elevating their risk for diabetes,” Georgiades said.

Further research is needed to determine exactly how epinephrine production affects blood sugar levels in black women. Nearly one in four black women in the United States has type 2 diabetes, according to the American Diabetes Association.

Cancer of the liver, also known as hepatocellular carcinoma, is the fifth most common type of cancer in the world. It is increasing in incidence, largely due to the spread of hepatitis C. Its growing prevalence may also be related to the rise of obesity and type-2 diabetes, which are associated with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). However, liver cancers associated with NAFLD have been poorly described.

Researchers, led by Valerie Paradis of Beaujon hospital in Paris, decided to analyze a series of liver cancers which arose in patients whose only risk factor for chronic liver disease was metabolic syndrome. They compared their findings to the characteristics of hepatocellular carcinomas that developed in the setting of other chronic liver diseases.

Their retrospective analysis included 128 patients in their hospital who had undergone surgery to remove a liver tumor between 1995 and 2007. Of these, 81 patients had an overt cause of chronic liver disease (CLD), like hepatitis B or hepatitis C. Thirty-one patients had features of the metabolic syndrome (MS) as their only risk factor. And sixteen patients had no identifiable risk factors.

“Most hepatocellular carcinoma associated with features of metabolic syndrome as the only risk factor for chronic liver disease develop in non-fibrotic liver,” the authors report. They found that just over 35 percent of liver tumors in these patients occurred in bridging fibrosis or cirrhosis, compared to 75 percent in the patients with chronic liver disease.

“Our results suggest that well-recognized multistep progression, i.e. fibrosis-cirrhosis-HCC, may not be the main carcinogenic pathway in the context of metabolic syndrome,” they write. They suggest that the metabolic syndrome itself could have a direct cancer-causing effect, perhaps through the effects of insulin, lipid peroxidation or free radical oxidative stress.

They noted that most tumors arising in the context of the metabolic syndrome were well differentiated – nearly 65 percent compared to 28 percent in the patients with chronic liver disease. These tumors were more similar to those in patients with tumors from unknown causes, which also had better differentiation and a low prevalence of significant fibrosis.

Interestingly, the researchers found that among the patients with metabolic syndrome, five cases of liver cancer were associated with liver cell adenoma (a benign liver tumor).

“Our results suggest that a significant percentage of hepatocellular carcinoma that developed in the context of metabolic syndrome without significant fibrosis arose from malignant transformation of liver cell adenoma,” they report.

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Cardiovascular disease and diabetes are associated with lipodystrophy, which results in fat redistribution that can leave the face and lower limbs gaunt, the stomach swollen and the back humped. Lipodystrophy also raises cholesterol levels and causes glucose intolerance, which could be particularly harmful to black people, who are predisposed to heart disease and diabetes. According to the Times, there are no data that compare the incidence, age of onset and cause of aging-related diseases in the general population with long-term survivors of HIV. However, experts say they do not see HIV-negative people in their mid-50s with hip replacements associated with vascular necrosis, heart disease or diabetes related to lipodystrophy, or osteoporosis without the usual risk factors.

The most comprehensive research has come from the AIDS Community Research Initiative of America, which has studied 1,000 long-term survivors in New York City. The ACRIA study, published in 2006, found unusual rates of depression and isolation among older people living with HIV.

The NIH-funded Multi-Site AIDS Cohort Study — which has followed 2,000 subjects nationwide for the past 25 years — will examine the effects of HIV/AIDS and aging over the next five years. MACS investigators and other researchers say the slow pace of research on HIV/AIDS and aging is a result of numbers. They note that the first generation of people diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in the mid-1980s had no effective treatments for 10 years and died in large numbers, leaving few people to participate in studies.

Charles Emlet — an associate professor at the University of Washington-Tacoma and a leading HIV and aging researcher — said HIV/AIDS and aging research has been slow to start because of “the rapid increase in numbers.” CDC’s most recent data, from 33 states that meet certain reporting criteria, showed that the number of people age 50 and older with HIV or AIDS was 115,871 in 2005, compared with 64,445 in 2001. In addition, the “routine exclusion” of older people from drug trials by large pharmaceutical companies has undermined such research, the Times reports. The studies are designed to measure safety and efficacy but not long-term side effects of drugs. The lack of research also limits a patient’s care, the Times reports.

“AIDS is a very serious disease, but longtime survivors have come to grips with it,” Emlet said, noting that although some patients experience unpleasant side effects from the antiretroviral drugs, a vast majority find a regimen they can tolerate. “Then all of a sudden they are bombarded with a whole new round of insults, which complicate their medical regime and have the potential of being life threatening. That undermines their sense of stability and makes it much more difficult to adjust,” he added (Gross, New York Times, 1/6).

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Diabetes UK has invested substantially in its research programme through the support of its Board of Trustees.

The research budget has increased steadily from £4.5 million in 2000 to £7.38 million in 2008.

Major funder

We are one of the major funders of research in both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes and we have a long and distinguished track record in funding research that will make a real difference to people with diabetes, their families and carers.

Open to more projects

However, the limit of three years’ funding and maximum award of £225,000 has meant that the larger, multi-centre collaborative projects in both basic and clinical diabetes research could not be submitted by leading researchers to Diabetes UK.

In the past year, we have worked hard to change this and ensure that leading diabetes researchers in the UK consider submitting their proposals to Diabetes UK in the first instance.

The Research Committee will now consider applications for up to five years’ duration with no limit on the funds requested. All requests for funding, however, will have to be fully justified by the applicants. Any request for more than £500,000 will need to be discussed with the Research team at Diabetes UK before a submission is made.

Research award criteria

The criteria for awarding grants remain the same:

- Potential to make a difference to people with diabetes
- Track record of the applicants to deliver results
- Value for money.

Dr Iain Frame, Director of Research at Diabetes UK, said: “I am absolutely delighted that we can now offer more time and resources to the world-class researchers we have in the UK, enabling them to improve the lives of people with diabetes through their ambitious and innovative research programmes.”

How to apply

Further details on how to apply for research funding can be found in our Research section.

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Deep sleep, also called “slow-wave sleep,” is thought to be the most restorative sleep stage, but its significance for physical well-being has not been demonstrated. This study found that after only three nights of selective slow-wave sleep suppression, young healthy subjects became less sensitive to insulin. Although they needed more insulin to dispose of the same amount of glucose, their insulin secretion did not increase to compensate for the reduced sensitivity, resulting in reduced tolerance to glucose and increased risk for type 2 diabetes. The decrease in insulin sensitivity was comparable to that caused by gaining 20 to 30 pounds.

Previous studies have demonstrated that reduced sleep quantity can impair glucose metabolism and appetite regulation resulting in increased risk of obesity and diabetes. This current study provides the first evidence linking poor sleep quality to increased diabetes risk.

“These findings demonstrate a clear role for slow-wave sleep in maintaining normal glucose control,” said the study’s lead author, Esra Tasali, MD, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Chicago Medical Center. “A profound decrease in slow-wave sleep had an immediate and significant adverse effect on insulin sensitivity and glucose tolerance.”

“Since reduced amounts of deep sleep are typical of aging and of common obesity-related sleep disorders, such as obstructive sleep apnea these results suggest that strategies to improve sleep quality, as well as quantity, may help to prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes in populations at risk,” said Eve Van Cauter, PhD, professor of medicine at the University of Chicago and senior author of the study.

The researchers studied nine lean, healthy volunteers, five men and four women between the ages of 20 and 31. The subjects spent two consecutive nights in the sleep laboratory, where they went to bed at 11 P.M., slept undisturbed but carefully monitored, and got out of bed 8.5 hours later, at 7:30 A.M.

The same subjects were also studied for three consecutive nights during which they followed identical nighttime routines. During this session, however, when their brain waves indicated that they were drifting into slow-wave sleep they were subtly disturbed by sounds administered through speakers beside the bed.

These sounds were loud enough to disrupt deep sleep but not so loud as to cause a full awakening. This technique enabled the researchers to decrease slow-wave sleep by about 90 percent, shifting the subjects from the onset of deep sleep (stage 3 or 4) to a lighter sleep (stage 2) without altering total sleep time.

“Our system proved quite effective,” Tasali said. When asked about the sounds the next morning, study subjects vaguely recalled hearing a noise “three or four times,” during the night. Some recalled as many as 10 to 15. On average, however, subjects required about 250-300 interventions each night, fewer the first night but more on subsequent nights as “slow-wave pressure,” the body’s need for deep sleep, accumulated night after night.

“This decrease in slow-wave sleep resembles the changes in sleep patterns caused by 40 years of aging,” Tasali said. Young adults spend 80 to 100 minutes per night in slow-wave sleep, while people over age 60 generally have less than 20 minutes. “In this experiment,” she said, “we gave people in their 20s the sleep of those in their 60s.”

At the end of each study, the researchers gave intravenous glucose (a sugar solution) to each subject, then took blood samples every few minutes to measure the levels of glucose and insulin, the hormone that controls glucose uptake.

They found that when slow-wave sleep was suppressed for only three nights, young healthy subjects became about 25 percent less sensitive to insulin. As insulin sensitivity decreased, subjects needed more insulin to dispose of the same amount of glucose. But for eight of the nine subjects, insulin secretion did not go up to compensate for reduced effects. The result was a 23 percent increase in blood-glucose levels, comparable to older adults with impaired glucose tolerance.

Those with low baseline levels of slow-wave sleep had the lowest levels after having their sleep patterns disrupted and the greatest decrease in insulin sensitivity.

The alarming rise in the prevalence of type 2 diabetes is generally attributed to the epidemic of obesity combined with the aging of the population. “Previous studies from our lab have demonstrated many connections between chronic, partial, sleep deprivation, changes in appetite, metabolic abnormalities, obesity, and diabetes risk,” said Van Cauter. “These results solidify those links and add a new wrinkle, the role of poor sleep quality, which is also associated with aging.”

“Chronic shallow non-REM sleep, decreased insulin sensitivity and elevated diabetes risk are typical of aging,” the authors conclude. “Our findings raise the question of whether age-related changes in sleep quality contribute to the development of these metabolic alterations.”

Insulin is a hormone that controls blood sugar. Insulin resistance occurs when the body becomes less sensitive to insulin. This condition can lead to type 2 diabetes. Chinese scientists report that resveratrol curbs insulin resistance in mice. These scientists, including Cheng Sun and Qiwei Zhai of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai, indicate that this is a “valuable new strategy for treating insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes.” If the findings apply to people, it might be possible to create new resveratrol compounds. However, to reach the same levels of resveratrol, it would require a significant consumption of red wine.

“According to [our] findings, people might need to drink about three liters of red wine each day to get sufficient resveratrol – about 15 milligrams – for its biological effects,” Zhai said in a news release, although the researchers did not recommend that anyone rely on wine to help their insulin sensitivity.

Resveratrol is found in grapes (especially in red wine), raspberries, peanuts, and other plants that use resveratrol to defend against threats such as disease. Sun’s team found that insulin-resistant mice become more sensitive to insulin when given resveratrol. The scientists’ experiments with cells in test tubes show that resveratrol spurs a gene called SIRT1 to become more active, boosting insulin sensitivity.

According to the American Diabetes Association. there are 20.8 million children and adults in the United States, or 7% of the population, who have diabetes. While an estimated 14.6 million have been diagnosed, unfortunately, 6.2 million people (or nearly one-third) are unaware that they have the disease and 54 million people are estimated to be pre-diabetic. About 1.5 million new cases of diabetes were diagnosed in people aged 20 years or older in 2005.

The total annual economic cost of diabetes in 2002 (latest year for which data is available) was estimated to be $132 billion. Direct medical expenditures totaled $92 billion and comprised $23.2 billion for diabetes care, $24.6 billion for chronic diabetes-related complications, and $44.1 billion for excess prevalence of general medical conditions. Indirect costs resulting from lost workdays, restricted activity days, mortality, and permanent disability due to diabetes totaled $40.8 billion. Furthermore, one out of every 10 health care dollars spent in the United States is spent on diabetes and its complications.

During the third quarter of this year, the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Nutritional Specialties, Inc./dba LifeTime®, launched Resveratrol Life Tonic™ in liquid form for enhanced bioavailability. The product’s powerful antioxidant properties include 300 mg of resveratrol extract in each one ounce serving, which is equivalent to 1,300 glasses of red wine. For more information, visit here.

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* healthy eating habits

* physical activity

* glucose monitoring

* medication compliance

* problem solving

* healthful coping

* reducing risk

“Studies of various study designs were carefully reviewed using rigorous review criteria adopted the by American Diabetes Association,” commented Diana Pihos, AADE Director of Communications. “Both strengths and weaknesses of the studies were critiqued, to help identify effective strategies for enhancing diabetes educators’ effectiveness in educating patients in self-care behaviors. Remaining gaps in existing knowledge were also identified for each behavior division, providing direction for future researchers to follow.”

Sections include:

- New Products: From new medications to continuous blood glucose monitors, this is the state of the art.

- Type 2 drugs: With six classes of diabetes pills and several combination oral medications on the market, there are many ways to control type 2 with drugs.

- Insulin: Learn about the main characteristics of insulin; insulins commonly used in the US; and other helpful tips related to shipping, labeling, storage and safety.

- Insulin Delivery: All about syringes, pumps, jet injectors, pens, and infusers. Does your equipment suit your needs?

- Blood Glucose Monitoring and Data Management Systems: How to find the best tools for monitoring blood glucose.

- Low Blood Glucose: Learn more about products that can assist you when you go low – and others that may help you stay on track in the future.

- Urine Testing: An important way to monitor for ketones.

- Manufacturers and Exclusive Distributors: An ‘A to Z’ list of manufacturers and distributors.

Also in this issue: How to make the most of those New Year’s weight loss resolutions, with eight simple steps to help you stick with your plan.

In addition, this issue of Diabetes Forecast brings you stories about:

- Delicious recipes for soup and stew that cuts out fat and calories.

- The role of heredity and diabetes-related kidney disease.

- The importance of exercise when it comes to cutting heart disease risk in kids.

Diabetes Forecast has been America’s leading diabetes magazine for 60 years. Each full-color issue offers the latest news on diabetes research and treatment. Its mission is to provide information, inspiration, and support to people with diabetes, helping them to live a healthier lifestyle, control their diabetes, and prevent or treat its many complications. The magazine is published monthly by the American Diabetes Association.

About the ADA

The American Diabetes Association is the nation’s premier voluntary health organization supporting diabetes research, information and advocacy. Founded in 1940, the Association has offices in every region of the country, providing services to hundreds of communities. The Association’s commitment to research is reflected through its scientific meetings; education and provider recognition programs; and its Research Foundation and Nationwide Research Program, which fund breakthrough studies looking into the cure, prevention, and treatment of diabetes and its complications.

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“Achieving CE Mark approval for TAXUS Liberté in patients with diabetes is an important milestone,” said David McFaul, Boston Scientific Senior Vice President, International. “As a leader in devices for the treatment of cardiovascular disease, Boston Scientific’s goal is to provide patients with the most advanced treatment options available. In this case, we are offering another specific solution for diabetic patients outside the United States, who are typically at higher risk for adverse events compared to non-diabetic patients.”

Combined data from four TAXUS ATLAS trials supported the efficacy and safety of the TAXUS Liberté stent system in diabetic patients.2 The trials examined 1,529 patients treated with the TAXUS Liberté stent system, 413 of whom had diabetes, and reported similar rates of target lesion revascularisation (TLR, or retreatment), cardiac death, myocardial infarction (MI, or heart attack) and stent thrombosis (clotting) between diabetic and non-diabetic stent recipients after adjustment for differences in risk at baseline.

Diabetes affects more than 200 million people worldwide and is expected to affect 360 million people by 2030.3 Approximately half of all patients presenting with coronary artery disease (CAD) in Europe have diabetes.4 Diabetic patients with CAD often have poorer outcomes after revascularisation procedures because their blood vessels tend to build up more plaque than the vessels of non-diabetic patients, and their CAD advances more quickly. CAD is the most common cause of death among European adults with diabetes.5

As a result of the expanded CE Mark, the TAXUS Liberté stent system in the European Union is indicated for treatment of de novo and restenotic lesions or total occlusions in patients with coronary artery disease angina; silent ischaemia; acute myocardial infarction to improve luminal diameter and reduce restenosis within the stent and at the stent edges in native coronary arteries. The TAXUS Liberté stent system is also indicated for patients with concomitant diabetes mellitus as well as treatment of abrupt or threatened closure in patients with failed interventional therapy.

The TAXUS Liberté stent is available outside the United States in a wide range of sizes to treat a diversity of vessel sizes and lesion lengths seen in patients with coronary artery disease.

The TAXUS Liberté stent system is pending approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and is not available for sale in the United States.

Boston Scientific is a worldwide developer, manufacturer and marketer of medical devices whose products are used in a broad range of interventional medical specialties. For more information, please visit: http://www.bostonscientific-international.com.

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References

1. For patients with concomitant diabetes mellitus.

2. Ormiston J, Mahmud E, Mandinov L, et al. TAXUS Liberté attenuates the risk of restenosis in diabetics: results from the TAXUS ATLAS Program. Presented at the annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics symposium, Washington DC, 20 – 25 October 2007.

3. Wild S, Roglic G, Green A, et al. Global prevalence of diabetes: estimates for the year 2000 and projections for 2030. Diabetes Care 2004;27(5):1047-53.

4. Bartnik M, Ryden L, Ferrari R, et al. The prevalence of abnormal glucose regulation in patients with coronary artery disease across Europe. The Euro Heart Survey on diabetes and the heart. Eur Heart J 2004;25(21):1880-90.

5. Ryden L, Standl E, Bartnik M, et al. Guidelines on diabetes, pre-diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases: executive summary. The Task Force on Diabetes and Cardiovascular Diseases of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD). Eur Heart J 2007;28(1):88-136.

The product will be officially withdrawn from the market from 16 January 2008, but it is hoped that this programme will help some people switch back other a longer period to other forms of treatment and that it will also allow enough time for another pharmaceutical company to pick up the production of inhaled insulin.

Diabetes UK had initiated talks with Pfizer regarding the withdrawal of the product and welcomes the initiative. Diabetes UK also wants to see a long-term solution put in place and will contact a variety of pharmaceutical companies in the UK and the US to encourage them to consider taking over the manufacturing of inhaled insulin.

“Pfizer’s decision to put in place a transition programme is helpful,” said Simon O’Neill, Director of Care, Information and Advocacy Services at Diabetes UK.

“We now want to see another pharmaceutical company take on the production of inhaled insulin. It is crucial that people with diabetes have access to a variety of treatments to ensure that they can self-manage their condition effectively.”

To access the transition programme the patient’s Diabetologist will have to register them with Pfizer’s INH (inhaled) Customer Care Centre and then prescribe them with a six-month supply of Exubera. The INH centre will then send the stock to the hospital pharmacist who will dispense it to the patient. Replacement devices (inhalers) will also be available from the centre.

The extended programme is only available to those people already on Exubera. No new patients will be considered.

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