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JENNINGS The Childhood Diabetes Expense Relief Fund will hold its annual Glow Run on da Bayou 7-10 p.m. Saturday, June 24, at the baseball fields at 1206 East Academy Ave.

The goal of the run, which last year drew over 200 runners and 150 spectators, is to raise money to help families of children with Type 1 diabetes buy insulin and testing supplies and meet other medical needs, said Casey Doucet, local CDERF president.

We hope to see over 500 people this year and would love to see our participants count break the 300 mark. Doucet said. Our main goal, however, is to educate and bring awareness to people locally and have a blast while doing so.

Doucet and his wife, Monique, created CDERF after their son, Wyatt, was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in February 2014 at the age of 3.

We had no idea the struggles that we would be facing just trying to keep him alive day after day. After six months of the daily stresses involved with treating our child with this disease, the bills began to roll in, Doucet said.

On top of all the things weve had to deal with, we now had to choose which bill wasnt getting paid this month due to the cost of diabetesrelated medications and supplies. These supplies are literally a matter of life and death, so you do not have the option of not getting them.

The Doucets began discussing ways to help other families facing the same issues, and they hit on the idea of forming the group.

It is our goal that other families do not have to face these circumstances, Doucet said. We feel like if this is the path we are meant to take with Wyatt, then we want to help others who are also facing these difficulties.

The Glow Run is not the main fundraiser for the group, but it is the main public outreach effort, he said.

It allows us to meet people in this area and helps us to raise awareness of this awful disease, Doucet said.

During last years Glow Run, we met several local families who had Type 1 diabetic children. We have been able to help several of them financially, as well as with advice or just an understanding listening ear.

The run will start at the west entrance of the Jennings Park and Recreation parking lot and travel east on East Academy, turning right onto River Oak Drive, circling the subdivision and retracing the route to the starting line.

Registration is available atcderf.org/glowrunthrough midnight June 23 and 5-6 p.m. in the park on race day.

Entry fees are $25 for adults; $20 for children 12-17; $15 for children 7-11; and $10 for non-participants. Children 6 and under enter free.

Awards will be presented to the top three runners in each division, as well as the top male and female in each age group.

Early registrants who sign up before midnight on June 20 will receive a T-shirt, glow items and a water bottle. Participants may also bring their own glow items.

Food and drinks will be provided for all paid participants. Spectators can buy a $10 wristband and eat. Children 6 and under will eat and drink free.

For more information, call CDERF at 337-329-1372 or emailinfo@cderf.org.

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Ten-year-old Sherborn resident Jillian Tierney was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in August 2016; when faced with the decision of which charitable organization she would highlight for her fifth-grade Citizenship Project, Tierney chose Joslin Diabetes Center, where she receives her care from Dr. Anat Hanono.

Ten-year-old Sherborn resident Jillian Tierney was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in August 2016; when faced with the decision of which charitable organization she would highlight for her fifth-grade Citizenship Project, Tierney chose Joslin Diabetes Center, where she receives her care from Dr. Anat Hanono.

Dr. Peter Amenta, president and CEO of Joslin Diabetes Center, joined Jillian and her family at Pine Hill Elementary School for the fifth-grade expo on June 7, where she debuted her project. Tierney showed Amenta her diabetes kit and demonstrated how she uses her glucose monitor, answered questions on the importance of counting carbs, and offered up information and statistics on diabetes for the parents and friends in attendance.

Joslins pediatrics department encourages and allows for young patients to continue pursuing their goals and participating in normal activities as part of learning to incorporate diabetes into their everyday life, and Tierney does not let her recent diagnosis slow her down. She plays soccer, recently finished a spring production of Mulan at a local theater company and will attend coastal ecology camp and a diabetes camp this summer.

For more information, visit http://www.joslin.org.

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Properly treating a common sleep-related breathing disorder may have benefits for the heart and for blood sugar, a new study suggests.

If people with obstructive sleep apnea dont use machines at night to help keep the airway open, measures of their heart health and blood sugar worsen, researchers found.

One of the long-standing debates in our field is whether sleep apnea causes heart issues and problems with blood sugar or if theyre just associated, said the studys senior author, Jonathan Jun of Johns Hopkins University.

In obstructive sleep apnea, the airway intermittently collapses or becomes blocked during sleep. The blocked airway causes pauses in breathing. Some people address this by using CPAP continuous positive airway pressure machines at night to keep the airway open.

In the past, researchers have tried to directly link sleep apnea with heart health and blood sugar by comparing patients instructed to use CPAP devices with patients instructed to sleep without these machines. But one of the major issues with those studies is that people may not actually use the CPAP machine, Jun said by phone.

For the new study, the researchers recruited 31 people with moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea who were known to regularly use CPAP machines.

The participants slept two nights in a lab, using their CPAP device on only one of the nights. The researchers obtained blood samples while participants slept.

We are looking at real-time changes, Jun said. Were getting blood every 20 minutes.

As reported in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, on the night without CPAP, patients obstructive sleep apnea returned. On those nights, the participants had low levels of oxygen in their blood, poor sleep and an increased heart rate.

Additionally, their blood samples showed increases in fatty acids, sugar and the stress hormone cortisol.

The researchers also saw increases in blood pressure and arterial stiffness, which has been linked with a risk for heart problems.

These were obese patients and patients with relatively severe sleep apnea. They also had other medical problems, Jun pointed out. People who fit that description may be experiencing the same changes if they sleep without using a CPAP machine, he said.

Glucose and fatty acids rose in the overall group without the CPAP machines, but participants with diabetes may be more vulnerable to the glucose elevation, Jun warned.

He said the study cant say what would happen to people with milder sleep apnea.

Because obesity has been tied to an increased risk of sleep apnea, it has been difficult to know whether its sleep apnea or obesity that is causing those problems, Jun noted.

The new study, he said, advances that idea that other conditions and not obesity itself are drivers of those levels.

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Broccoli contains an ingredient that can help those with type 2 diabetes control their blood sugar level, according to a new study potentially providing a much-needed treatment option for millions.

A chemical in cruciferous vegetables like broccoli and sprouts calledsulforaphaneis thought to be responsible,having been shown to lower glucose levels in earlier lab experiments on diabetic rats.

To identify suitable compounds to examine, researchers used computer models to identify gene expression changes linked with type 2 diabetes, and then sift through thousands of chemicals that might reverse these changes.

"We're very excited about the effects we've seen and are eager to bring the extract to patients," one of the researchers, Anders Rosengren of the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, told Andy Coghlan at New Scientist.

"We saw a reduction of glucose of about 10 per cent, which is sufficient to reduce complications in the eyes, kidneys and blood."

That 10 percent average reduction was across a sample of 97 human volunteers taking part in a 12-week randomised, placebo-controlled trial. The participants who were obese and who had higher baseline glucose levels to begin with benefitted the most.

The dose was the equivalent of around 5 kilograms (11 pounds) of broccoli daily a fair few platefuls but the researchers say it could be adapted into a powder to add to food or drinks.

It's important to note that all but three of those taking part in the trial continued to take metformin, a drug already used to improve blood sugar regulation in people with diabetes.

However, the researchers think sulforaphane could eventually replace metformin for some patients up to 15 percent of those with diabetes can't take metformin because of the associated risks of kidney damage.

The two chemicals take different approaches: sulforaphane suppresses the enzymes in the liver that stimulate glucose production, whereas metformin makes cells more sensitive to insulin, taking more glucose out of the bloodstream.

With more than 29 million people having type 2 diabetes in the US alone, and that number on the rise, any kind of help is going to be very welcome.

Before the human trial, the researchers also found sulforaphane was able to reduce glucose production in liver cells grown in a lab, and shift liver gene expression away from an abnormal, diseased state in diabetic rats.

Larger and more detailed studies are required before the drug can get approved for regular treatments though, and until then it's probably wise to keep your vegetable intake to a normal, healthy level.

"More research is needed to see if this repurposed drug can be used to treat Type 2 diabetes, as it was only tested in a small number of people and only helped a subset of those who are taking it," Elizabeth Robertson from Diabetes UK, who wasn't involved in the research, told New Scientist.

"For now, we recommend that people continue with the treatment prescribed by their healthcare team."

The findings have been published in Science Translational Medicine.

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