News tagged with diabetes risk
Related topics: diabetes , women , type 2 diabetes , insulin resistance
Blood on the menu: New research could make it easier to grow health-promoting blood oranges
For the red pigmentation to develop, blood oranges normally require a period of cold as they ripen. The only place to reliably grow them on a commercial scale is in the Sicilian area of Italy around Mount ...
Mar 13, 2012 |
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New insights into insulin resistance could lead to better drugs for diabetics
Research published in the October Molecular and Cellular Biology moves us closer to developing drugs that could mitigate diabetes.
Oct 21, 2011 |
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Metabolite levels may be able to improve diabetes risk prediction
Measuring the levels of small molecules in the blood may be able to identify individuals at elevated risk of developing type 2 diabetes as much as a decade before symptoms of the disorder appear. In a report receiving advance ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 20, 2011 |
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Study: Native Hawaiians at higher risk of hemorrhagic stroke at younger age
Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders may be at higher risk for hemorrhagic stroke at a younger age and more likely to have diabetes compared to other ethnicities, according to a study released today that will be presented ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 15, 2011 |
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Searching for the soul of the genome (w/ Video)
The discovery that a "gene desert" on chromosome 9 was a hotspot for coronary artery disease (CAD) risk was among the highlights of findings produced recently by genome-wide association studies, which compare the genomes ...
Feb 09, 2011 |
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Women with both diabetes and depression at higher risk of dying from heart disease, other causes
Depression and diabetes appear to be associated with a significantly increased risk of death from heart disease and risk of death from all causes over a six-year period for women, according to a report in the January issue ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 03, 2011 |
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Study links large waist size to higher diabetes rates among Americans
A higher rate of diabetes seen among adult Americans when compared to peers in England is explained primarily by a larger waist size rather than conventional risk factors such as obesity, according to a new study by researchers ...
Oct 07, 2010 |
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Genetics may not help you live to old age
(PhysOrg.com) -- Most people living to over 90 have avoided the three major causes of death: heart disease, cancers, and type 2 diabetes. Several areas on the human genome have been identified as being implicated ...
Oct 05, 2010 |
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Lifestyle intervention for overweight patients with diabetes provides long-term benefits
An intensive lifestyle intervention appears to help individuals with type 2 diabetes lose weight and keep it off, along with improving fitness, control of blood glucose levels and risk factors for cardiovascular disease, ...
Sep 27, 2010 |
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Diet/exercise intervention for patients at risk for heart disease improves quality of life
A lifestyle intervention incorporating exercise training and diet counseling in primary health care settings appears to improve quality of life among adults at moderate to high risk for heart disease and appears cost-effective ...
Sep 13, 2010 |
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Diabetes risk in children increases risk for weak bones
Children at risk for diabetes before they reach puberty also appear to be at risk for weak bones, Medical College of Georgia researchers report.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 16, 2010 |
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New diabetes risk assessment developed
A team from the University of Leicester, led by Professor Melanie Davies from the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences and Professor Kamlesh Khunti from the Department of Health Sciences, has developed an easy way for people ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Aug 11, 2010 |
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Larger waist associated with greater risk of death
Individuals with a large waist circumference appear to have a greater risk of dying from any cause over a nine-year period, according to a report in the August 9/23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/A ...
Aug 09, 2010 |
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Near-normal blood sugar target did not delay risk of organ damage in people with diabetes
In people with longstanding type 2 diabetes who are at high risk for heart attack and stroke, lowering blood sugar to near-normal levels did not delay the combined risk of diabetic damage to kidneys, eyes, or nerves, but ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 29, 2010 |
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Metabolic syndrome in living kidney donors worsens function of remaining kidney
People who donate one of their kidneys experience faster deterioration of their other kidney if they have the metabolic syndrome at the time of donation, a new study finds. The results will be presented Sunday at The Endocrine ...
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Jun 21, 2010 |
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