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HIV Treatment Said to Increase Heart Attack Risk

...cholesterol level, a higher triglyceride level and diabetes were associated with an increased risk for a heart attack. Investigators conclude combination antiretroviral therapy was independently associated with a 26-percent increase in the rate of a heart attack. However, they point out the risk has to be ba...

Islet Cells May Lead to Diabetes CureChildren

...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...

Easier Methods Required to Screen Insulin Resistance

...stance is a major medical problem often leading to diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Being overweight greatly increases the odds someone will be insulin //resistant, but not all overweight or obese people are afflicted. The insulin suppression test used to identify insulin resistance, however, it is too...

Easier Methods Required to Screen Insulin Resistance

...stance is a major medical problem often leading to diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Being overweight greatly increases the odds someone will be insulin // resistant, but not all overweight or obese people are afflicted. The insulin suppression test used to identify insulin resistance, however, it is too d...

Diabetes Linked to Depression

A new study shows women with diabetes have a higher risk of depression. British research...ded those without diabetes. Women who did not have diabetes were again divided into four smaller groups, based on their levels of insulin resistance. Researche...

Pancreas Transplant for Diabetics

...on may be considered for diabetics who have severe diabetes with frequent episodes of very low or very high bl... collected suggests that patients with complicated diabetes who are considering a solitary pancreas transplant must weigh the potential benefit of insulin indep...

Women With Diabetes Have a Higher Risk of Depression

... associated with suicide risk. They say women with diabetes may be more likely to suffer depression because of...ded those without diabetes. Women who did not have diabetes were again divided into four smaller groups, based on their levels of insulin resistance. Researc...

Multi-Drug Therapy Effective in Lowering Blood Pressure

...f mercury (diastolic). The goals for patients with diabetes or renal impairment were less than 130 millimeters of mercury (systolic) and less than 85 millimeters of mercury (diastolic). The patients were treated with a calcium antagonist strategy (CAS) or a non-calcium antagonist strategy (NCAS). Researcher...

Insulin Resistance Linked To Difference In Gender

Type 2 diabetes used to be considered an adult disease, but now more children are being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.// Research has shown girls are affected more than boys. Now, a new study shows sex-linked genes may explain this difference between girls and boy...

Poor Preventive Measures Taken By Diabetics

...ges 20 years or older, who had been diagnosed with diabetes for more than a decade.They examined levels of gly...cholesterol and discovered that many patients with diabetes were not proactively managing these factors. The research showed 37 percent of patients were above...

Blood Marker Found To Predict Colon Cancer

...related to diabetes, going against the belief that diabetes acts as the mediator between inflammation and cancer risk. Specialists however say that It’s not clear yet how or whether measuring C-reactive protein would fit into current screening and prevention strategies for colorectal cancer but they say fur...

Possibility of Link Diabetes with Iron

...women has shown that there may be a link of type 2 diabetes manifesting in women with no risk factors whose bl...ation of 109 nanograms/milliliter manifested with diabetes whereas those with levels of 71.5 nanograms/milliliter in healthy patients did not get diabetes. Wo...

Cholesterol-lowering drug Found To greatly Reduce the risk of stroke and heart attack

...the patients were taking and other factors such as diabetes or coronary artery disease. Researchers say the next step should be to do randomized clinical trials in which half of a group of patients gets a statin and half gets a placebo and they feel that the results of this study could indeed lead to a nove...

Childhood Weight Gain Found To Increase The Risk of Diabetes

... cardiovascular disease. The prevalence of type 2 diabetes is increasing rapidly in developing countries such as India. Researchers say the epidemic of type 2 diabetes in developing countries has been attributed to what is called nutritional transition. Nutritional tr...

Benefits Of The Worlds Most Widely Used Beverage

...abolize food, especially sugar. Type-I or juvenile diabetes is a different disease caused by the destruction o...eople found men who drank six cups a day cut their diabetes risk by half over 12 to 18 years, while women who drank that amount had a 30 percent lowered risk. "...

The Link Between Childhood Vaccinations And Diabetes Questioned

...o kids. Results showed no increased risk of type 1 diabetes among children who received the normal childhood vaccinations. Thus researchers say based on their findings there appears to be no support for any causal relation between childhood vaccination and type 1 diabetes....

The Importance Of “ Good ”Control Of Diabetes During Pregnanc

Investigators surveyed about 320 women with type 1 diabetes and noted significant problems, despite the fact m...gists caring for infants born to women with type 1 diabetes should be alert for signs of low blood sugar in the babies....

The Link Between Diabetes and Colon Cancer

...e risk of colorectal cancer and the risk of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease....

The After Effects Of Pneumonia

...nia. In addition, patients with poorly controlled diabetes and a hematocrit (ratio of the volume of packed red blood cells to the volume of whole blood) of less than 35 percent were significant predictors of death. Researchers also observed a higher risk of early death among patients 41 to 60 years old who h...

A Rise In Eye Complications In Diabetics

...tinopathy occurs in most people with long-standing diabetes but its incidence can be reduced with aggressive c...ght eye surveys and estimated prevalence rates for diabetes reported in the 1999 National Health Interview Study and the 2000 U.S. Census. An estimated 10.2 mil...

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