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RSSShort height of people may increase the risk of obesity and the onset of type 2 diabetes. The journal ‘Diabetes Care’ has published a research report that concluded by Dr. Keiko Asao and his associates of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
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As diabetes is rapidly becoming one of the world’s most common diseases, its financial cost is mounting, too, to well over $200 billion a year in the U.S. alone.
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The controversial diabetes pill Avandia failed to significantly slow plaque buildup in heart arteries compared with an older drug, though there were some hopeful signs...
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In an Oct. 30 story about U.S. diabetes rates, The Associated Press erroneously said that with Type 2, diabetics do not produce or use insulin, a hormone needed to...
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The nation’s obesity epidemic is exacting a heavy toll: The rate of new diabetes cases nearly doubled in the United States in the past 10 years, the government...
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The rate of new diabetes cases nearly doubled in the United States in the last 10 years, with the highest levels in the South, the government said Thursday in its first...
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The rate of new diabetes cases nearly doubled in the United States in the last 10 years, with the highest levels in the South, the government said Thursday in its first...
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The government should ban the diabetes drug Avandia because of a wide variety of life-threatening risks, including heart and liver damage, a consumer group said...
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Americans with diabetes nearly doubled their spending on drugs for the disease in just six years, with the bill last year climbing to an eye-popping $12.5 billion.
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Drinking chamomile tea daily may help prevent the complications of type 2 diabetes, such as loss of vision and nerve and kidney damage, a study says.
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As more studies are focusing on childhood health, obesity in kids can be a risk factor to consider especially in cases of heart attacks and strokes at an early age....
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In order to protect yourself from diabetes you need not spending long hours in gymnasium, as doing household chores is capable of doing that. This fact rolled out from...
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In a discovery that could help obese people and those afflicted with diabetes, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies has devised a new tablet that could help people...
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With diabetes becoming almost a household disease now, the need for blood glucose monitoring has become a compulsion.The concentration of glucose in the blood is...
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After establishing itself as a heart-friendly drink, read wine is now once again ready to be there on your dining table; this time as an antidote to diabetes....
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A breakthorough concept in bandages has surfaced on the horizon which is boon for diabetics. HealFast is a bandage designed by Donn Koh that uses electric fields to...
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Booming economy has brought India on the stage where it vies with countries like China and the US. Well, on one issue, it is set to outshine these rivals even! Thanks...
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Researchers at the University of California, Irvine believe it may be possible to develop a breath analysis test to monitor blood sugar.
They tested the breath of 10...
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If you are heart patient or have ever incurred heart attack, so may be another health threat in the form of diabetes is not far away. Credit to bring out this...
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Recent study conducted on diabetes has shown that Nutraceuticals have the capability to control diabetes.
Nutraceuticals denote foods having medicinal effect on the...
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Diabetics who tightly control their blood sugar _ even if only for the first decade after they are diagnosed _ have lower risks of heart attack, death and other...
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Low-fat dairy products might reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes in women. At the same time, some of previous research has already stated that high level of dairy foods...
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Low level of ‘LDL’ or bad cholesterol radically decreases the chances of heart attack in the people with diabetes and heart disease. The researchers have...
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Researchers at University of Alberta found, in a study, a link between depression and Type 2 diabetes. The case occurs mostly in young adults. Dr. Jeffrey Johnson, with...
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If a U.S. citizen has diabetes and he develops a foot infection, it makes worse effect on the patient. He will be at a 55 times greater risk for hospitalization....
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The risk of developing diabetes later in life increases by gestational diabetes mellitus. Finnish investigators report this in Diabetes Care. According to the study,...
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Hanoi witnessed the opening of an international diabetes conference Wednesday, which addresses one of the most significant public health challenges of the 21st...
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The link between diabetes and periodontal disease was previously established. But, do you know the destruction of gums can start in diabetic children as young as six...
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A long known cause of type II diabetes - Obesity may accelerate, in turn, the onset of type 1 diabetes! But, according to research at Wake Forest University School of...
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