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Study reveals how stress can make you sick

...ing heart disease, arthritis, osteoporosis, type-2 diabetes and certain cancers. The study also found the increase in IL-6 can linger in caregivers for as long as three years after a caregiver had ceased that role because of the spouse's death. Of the test group, 78 spouses died during the survey. This reall...

Diabetes on the Increase but Death Rate Falling

...ity of Southern Denmark carried out an analysis of diabetes in a community of 470,000 people between 1993 and 1999. While the proportion of people with diabetes increased by around three percent annually during the six-year study, the associated death rate fell...

Depression Weighs Heaviest on the Elderly

...n that they are not managing their hypertension or diabetes or they are not eating right. People die from the sort of excess disability that is created by depression in the context of other diseases." Contrary to conventional wisdom, depression is not a normal part of aging. But certain aspects of depressio...

An hour of exercise a week cuts hypertension

... week to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity.Researchers from Japan, tested 207 men and women who had high blood pressure but were otherwise healthy. None exercised regularly. They divided them into five groups who got a range of exercise from none to two hours and more a week. Th...

Teens' vitamin D deficiency an epidemic

...hronic deficiency may be linked with some cancers, diabetes and high blood pressure say specialists. Youngsters with less intense year-round sunlight are especially prone to vitamin D deficiency, as are blacks and other dark-skinned ethnic groups whose pigmented skin doesn't absorb sunlight as easily as whit...

Good carb, bad carb? Experts debate.

...the past two decades: Why diets so often fail. Why diabetes is becoming epidemic. Why mankind is growing so fa...are are less likely to become overweight or to get diabetes and heart disease....

Hidden Disease in Stroke Patients

...rol and blood pressure levels, smoking history and diabetes risk. The American Heart Association suggests patients whose risk is 20 percent or higher should undergo further medical testing. The authors write: "Several testing options are available for stroke patients who are being evaluated for unrecognized c...

Risks for Silent Strokes

...isk of a future stroke.// A new study shows having diabetes and high blood pressure increases a person’s risk ...Researchers report 82 percent of the patients with diabetes and high blood pressure and 58 percent of those with hypertension alone had suffered a silent stroke...

Rat joins list of cloned animals

...ch as cardiovascular diseases, //cancers, obesity, diabetes and neurological disorders. Rats and mice used in labs are inbred or genetically engineered to have certain traits -- such as a weak immune system, or a tendency to cancer. So-called knock-out mice and rats lack certain, specific genes and are us...

Same molecule found in meat, milk, tumors

...acks healthy tissue and include type-1 or juvenile diabetes and some types of arthritis. But much research has focused on the fat content of animal fat or byproducts of cooking meat as the cause of disease.Researchers developed an antibody -- an immune system targeting protein -- that would hook onto Neu5Gc....

New Drug for Diabetes

...A could be one of the most significant advances in diabetes since the discovery of insulin //more than 80 years ago, say doctors involved in the research. Diabetes is a disease in which the hormone insulin is not made by the body (type 1 diabetes) or the body does not effectively use the insulin it does pro...

Diabetes, obesity rates shooting up

...6.5 percent of American adults were diagnosed with diabetes in 2002 compared with 5.1 percent in 1997. Another...t about 12 million adults have been diagnosed with diabetes and an additional 5 million adults have it but do not know it.Another 12 million adults have impaire...

Promising Treatment for Diabetes

...th’s Diabetes Care, shows older people with type 2 diabetes who received a continuous infusion of a gut hormone called glucagon-like peptide 1, or GLP-1, had significantly fewer of these complications than those who remained on standard oral medications. The study involved 16 patients. Eight remained on usua...

Kidney Patients Risk Heart Attacks

... certain conditions including high blood pressure, diabetes and existing heart disease. From there, treatment can be started early. Mark Sarnak, M.D., co-author of the study, is quoted as saying, “There are some very good treatments for kidney disease, and fortunately, there isn’t a medication that is good fo...

Kidney Patients Risk Heart Attacks

... certain conditions including high blood pressure, diabetes and existing heart disease. From there, treatment can be started early. Mark Sarnak, M.D., co-author of the study, is quoted as saying, "There are some very good treatments for kidney disease, and fortunately, there isn’t a medication that is good fo...

Diabetes a cause for worry among the young

... more young adults are being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and now research shows this diagnosis puts these y...esearch shows younger adults diagnosed with type 2 diabetes are 14-times more likely to suffer a heart attack and 30-times more likely to suffer a stroke than t...

Diabetes cases could double in developing countries in next 30 years

The number of cases of diabetes in developing countries is likely to increase more...nt to increase its efforts to reduce the impact of diabetes and its complications, particularly among low- and middle-income communities, in collaboration with ...

Islets May Lead to Diabetes Cure

...1 report of a treatment that cures advanced type 1 diabetes in mice. The new research focuses on the biologica...These exciting findings in a mouse model of type 1 diabetes suggest that patients who are developing the disease could be rescued from further destruction of th...

Predictors for Type 2 Diabetes

Identifying those at risk for diabetes is important because lifestyle changes and medicat...wn as metabolic syndrome is able to predict type 2 diabetes independently of other risk factors. Metabolic syndrome has been shown to lead to the development ...

Excess Weight Can Affect Individuals as They Age

...d 6,766 middle-aged men and women who did not have diabetes or heart disease. The participants were part of another study between 1967 and 1973 when they were between 36 and 64 years old. Researchers had the participants complete a questionnaire 26 years later when they were 65 years or older. Study authors t...

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