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Diabetics and their babies

Babies born to women with diabetes are five times more likely to die at birth than th... Sweden. They found that babies born to women with diabetes in Swden were much less likely to either die or have birth defects. A spokeswoman for the charity Di...

Diabetes on the rise

The world's largest diabetes epidemic is threatening India, which is ill-equipp...say experts. The amount of type II, or adult-onset diabetes in Indian cities is high, and rising, suggests health data. India has a population of more than a bi...

Pollution- hazardous for diabetics

...iabetes. It's possible that pollution exposure and diabetes affect the same pathways to heart disease and when...re present the risk is compounded. But people with diabetes were not at any extra risk of PM10-induced respiratory symptoms. The message is that people with dia...

Avoid stress to have strong babies

...are more likely to develop coronary heart disease, diabetes and depression in later life. Dr Glover said more research was needed to determine why stress should impact on development. "One possible reason is that stress raises the levels of hormones such as nor-adrenalin, which is known to constrict the blo...

Vitamins reduce pre-eclampsia

...ncy, and if the mother is over 40 years old or has diabetes or existing high blood pressure. If left untreated, it can cause internal bleeding, or even seizures (eclampsia).// The study, carried out at hospitals in London, looked at 346 women known to be at high-risk of the condition. Half were given 1000mg ...

Cardiac diseases develop early

...ating in the blood. Insulin resistance may lead to diabetes and a cluster of factors including insulin resistance (called Metabolic Syndrome X) has been linked to an increased risk of heart disease. Researchers measured obesity, insulin resistance, blood pressure and cholesterol levels of 324 boys and girls....

Pioneering artificial heart patient dies

...rker, was suffering from congestive heart failure, diabetes and kidney disease when he received the artificial heart. At the time of the surgery, Tools was only expected to live one month. Doctors had said if he lived for 60 days with the new heart, it would be a major success. He far surpassed doctors’ expec...

No vaccination - diabetes link

...her diseases were no more likely to have developed diabetes than those who had not been given the vaccines. //...ewer vaccines came into use. The cause of juvenile diabetes is not known but genetic and environmental factors are believed to be involved....

Cinnamon combats Diabetes

...e spice to their food.// Adult-onset, or type II diabetes is far more prevalent than insulin-dependent diabetes, which normally begins earlier in life and requires a regimen of blood testing and insulin injections. It happens when cells in the body normally responsible for dealing with excess blood sugar lo...

Higher Risk of Asthma in children with autoimmune disease

...ree autoimmune conditions : celiac disease, type 1 diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis. Celiac disease is an in...ystem attacks the tissue lining the joints. Type 1 diabetes occurs when the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas are destroyed, making it necessary for a per...

Good News For Women With Gestational Diabetes

When an expectant woman has diabetes during her pregnancy, the special form of the dise...d successfully by pregnant women who've had type 1 diabetes since childhood. Now, it appears, there's a second, larger group of women who can benefit from the t...

Unsatisfactory Grade On Women's Health Issues

...s. Still, few states have made progress in women's diabetes rates or in promoting programs to cut obesity, smoking or high blood pressure in women....

New treatment for diabetics

...tion every day. Type 2, or non-insulin dependent diabetes is the most common form of the disease, and usuall...the bloodstream and causes health problems. Type 2 diabetes can be controlled by regular exercise and diet control, though some also need extra insulin. However...

Breast screening among diabetic women

...order to prevent it from advancing. Women who have diabetes should go for a mammogram as a routine check up, t...thout diabetes. They found that 50 per cent of the diabetes group were having mammograms to screen for early breast cancer, compared to 70 per cent of the contr...

Water regulation in humans

...s. The finding may help to develop treatments for diabetes insipidus,an ailment that inhibits reabsorption of water causing frequent urination and emaciation.Water makes up 70% of the human body, and while certain cells need to absorb water quickly, other cells are relatively impermeable to water. About a d...

Knowing how weight loss aids in diabetes

...f the population now classified as overweight, and diabetes seemingly reaching epidemic proportions, it is nev...s on cardiovascular risk factors, the incidence of diabetes complications, general health and quality of life. The result will be of great significance to peopl...

Obesity a global problem

...besity-related illnesses, including heart disease, diabetes and cancer. Obesity is also on the increase among non-Western immigrants to industrialised countries, as well as certain Western groups undergoing rapid socioeconomic changes. Researcher Marquisa La Velle, of the University of Rhode Island, has stud...

Wheat wards off colon cancer

...ioxidants which may help to ward off colon cancer, diabetes and heart disease. Biochemists from Ohio State University, who carried out the research//, say the findings may empower them to create modified wheat strains with high levels of cancer-fighting chemicals. Antioxidants are important because they comb...

Beta-Carotene May Aid Diabetics

...pare the oxidation of LDL drawn from patients with diabetes mellitus to normoglycemic controls. They also soug...ed development of atherosclerosis in patients with diabetes mellitus....

Lifestyle variation can cut diabetes hazard

...ing weight and increasing exercise cut the risk of diabetes by over half. People who have elevated blood sugar...ncreased risk of developing diabetes.// Given that diabetes has serious even life-threatening complications, it would be very useful if there was some way of he...

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