News tagged with diabetes prevention
Avoiding or controlling diabetes may reduce cancer risk and mortality
Results of the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study revealed that diabetes is associated with lower risk of prostate cancer in men but with higher risk of other cancers in both men and women. The data, to be presented at the AACR ...
Apr 03, 2011 |
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Diabetes belt identified in southern United States
In the 1960s, a group of U.S. states with high age-adjusted stroke mortality defined a "stroke belt." Until recently, geographic patterns of diabetes had not been specifically characterized in the same manner. In an article ...
Mar 08, 2011 |
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Higher vitamin D intake needed to reduce cancer risk
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha have reported that markedly higher intake of vitamin D is needed to reach blood levels that can ...
Feb 22, 2011 |
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Grapes may ease liver disease: study
University of Queensland Diamantina Institute PhD student, Veronique Chachay, hopes to determine if a nutrient found in grape skin could hold the key to better managing non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 07, 2011 |
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Diabetes in pregnancy a risk for mom years later
(AP) -- A type of diabetes that strikes during pregnancy may disappear at birth, but it remains a big red flag for moms' future health - one that too many seem to be missing.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 31, 2011 |
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Routine blood test may identify people with pre-diabetes, cutting later treatment costs
A simpler form of testing individuals with risk factors for diabetes could improve diabetes prevention efforts by substantially increasing the number of individuals who complete testing and learn whether or not they are likely ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 06, 2011 |
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The Medical Minute: November is diabetes month
About 24 million adults in the U.S. have Diabetes. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released new projections that the incidence of diabetes in the U.S. will triple by 2050, meaning that 1 in 3 ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 11, 2010 |
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More Americans uninsured, but rate about the same
(AP) -- The government says the number of uninsured Americans is now nearly 47 million, up about 7 percent from 2006. And a large percentage of people say they have put off health care for conditions like diabetes and high ...
Nov 10, 2010 |
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Number of diabetic Americans could triple by 2050
(AP) -- Federal officials estimate that as many as 1 in 3 U.S. adults could have diabetes by the year 2050.
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Oct 22, 2010 |
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Metabolic status before pregnancy predicts subsequent gestational diabetes
Cardio-metabolic risk factors such as high blood sugar and insulin, and low high density lipoprotein cholesterol that are present before pregnancy, predict whether a woman will develop diabetes during a future pregnancy, ...
Oct 12, 2010 |
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Study links more time spent sitting to higher risk of death
A new study from American Cancer Society researchers finds it's not just how much physical activity you get, but how much time you spend sitting that can affect your risk of death. Researchers say time spent sitting was independently ...
Jul 22, 2010 |
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A bittersweet warning for women with gestational diabetes
A common test to diagnose gestational diabetes -- a temporary condition which can harm both mother and child if left untreated -- also has predictive power for Type II adult-onset diabetes, a new Tel Aviv University study ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 07, 2010 |
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Block by block: A campaign to combat diabetes
It started with a simple medical survey in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on Chicago's near Northwest side whose results were reported in the Journal of Epidemiology in 2006.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 19, 2010 |
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Launch of Europe-wide recommendations for preventing type 2 diabetes
Researchers and clinicians from across the UK have been part of a pan-European team that has developed the first Europe wide strategy for the prevention of type 2 diabetes. The project received substantial funding of €1.2 ...
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Apr 09, 2010 |
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Extreme obesity affecting more children at younger ages
Extreme obesity is affecting more children at younger ages, with 12 percent of black teenage girls, 11.2 percent of Hispanic teenage boys, 7.3 percent of boys and 5.5 percent of girls now classified as extremely obese, according ...
Mar 18, 2010 |
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