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Risk for Cancer Increases In Diabetics

...rmine whether those reporting a prior diagnosis of diabetes were more likely to be diagnosed with cancer. Their findings are independent of other factors like participants' body mass index. Researchers say they found that among those who reported being diabetic, there was a three-fold increased risk for live...

Weight Reduction Surgery Also Treats Metabolic Syndrome

...tion of conditions putting people at high risk for diabetes // and heart disease. The syndrome is characterized by higher than normal blood sugar, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and obesity. The study involved 645 patients who were treated for obesity with one of two common weight loss surgeries -- l...

Obesity A Risk Factor For Stroke

...at it is not enough to just treat hypertension and diabetes to prevent stroke but obesity should also be considered a risk factor....

Controlling High Blood Can Reduce Eye Problems In Diabetics

People with type 2 diabetes have a risk of developing high blood pressure. Hig... about 1,150 patients with high blood pressure and diabetes to either a tightly controlled blood pressure group, which aimed to reduce blood pressure to less th...

Walnuts Could Aid Patients With Diabetes

...dividualized diets for about 60 people with type 2 diabetes for a six-month study.The diets were based on the ...tty acids into the diet especially for people with diabetes because they're a simple snack food, which is an integral component of managing the diet in diabetes...

Reducing The Rate Of Amputations Among Diabetics

...going [an amputation] in people with younger-onset diabetes ,thus researchers believe changes in the retina may provide a good way to predict which diabetic patients are most at risk for amputation....

Exercise Good For Patients With Diabetes and Heart Disease

...ficantly reduce risk factors for disorders such as diabetes and heart disease in older adults //, say research...ed abdominal fat (a risk factor for heart disease, diabetes and stroke), by 20 percent but there was no such improvement in the non-exercising group. At the st...

Sleeping Less May be related to Weight Gain

...s among some sleep, metabolic, cardiovascular, and diabetes researchers that insufficient sleep could be leading to a cascade of disorders, few in the general medicine profession or in the lay public have yet made the connection." The authors stress the need to investigate whether intervention in sleep dis...

Diabetics Found To Be At An Increased Risk Of Developing Cancer

High blood sugar levels and diabetes are risk factors for developing some types of canc...used by cancer. Study results showed patients with diabetes and those without diabetes but with higher fasting blood sugar levels were more likely to develop ca...

The Consequences Of Stopping Physical Activity

... efficient use of insulin may decrease, leading to diabetes and other related diseases.// Researchers conducted a study in rats and found insulin sensitivity decreased the longer the rats stayed inactive. When the rats stopped running for two days after a period of running for three weeks, the amount of suga...

Analyzing The Risk Factors For Diabetic Neuropathy

...esearchers studied around 1,200 people with type 1 diabetes who were initially screened for neuropathy between...e condition was related to blood sugar control and diabetes duration, researchers also found a greater neuropathy risk among those with the risk factors previou...

Heart Disease Risk Factors Found To Increase Risk of Dementia In Old Age

...ar disease include high cholesterol, hypertension, diabetes and smoking. Each of these cardiovascular risk fac...r in life. It was observed that participants with diabetes were 46-percent more likely to develop dementia. Those with high cholesterol had a 42-percent increa...

Women With A High-Risk Of Cardiovascular Disease Under treated

...scular disease or who were at high risk because of diabetes or multiple risk factors were studied. The women were assessed for three years to determine how doctors managed their cholesterol levels. Researchers found only 7 percent of the women at the beginning of the study had optimal levels which improved t...

Chennai Plays Hosts To The Diabetes World Congress

The fourth world congress for diabetes begins in Chennai today. The theme for the congress is Prevention of diabetes and its complications //and over 1000 doctors and researchers will attend the event from 38 countrie...

Chennai Plays Hosts To The Diabetes World Congress

The fourth world congress for diabetes begins in Chennai today. The theme for the congress is Prevention of diabetes and its complications //and over 1000 doctors and researchers will attend the event from 38 countrie...

Herb Found To Be Effective In Controlling Blood Sugar Levels

... herb used in traditional Indian medicine to treat diabetes seems to lower blood sugar and insulin levels // i... levels. For the study thirty-nine adults without diabetes participated and were given four test meals consisting of a beverage that contained the herbal extra...

More Importance To Be Given To Prenatal Nutrition

...utrition have a high risk for developing // type 2 diabetes later in life. Researchers say a pregnant mother'...igh levels of blood glucose, similar to full-blown diabetes in humans and were not programmed to secrete a limited amount of insulin later in life, no matter wh...

Diet and exercise can be a better option to control diabetes

...exercise //as preconditions to prevent and control diabetes type 2. Their computer-stimulated findings suggest that it may be cost effective to control diabetes through rigorous exercise and good diet than using medication. Type 2 diabetes reduces the body’s ...

Eye testing can reveal the condition of your heart

...condition of the heart, kidneys or conditions like diabetes or stroke. In a study headed by Dr. John I. Loewenstein, a retina specialist at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, the relationship has been drawn between changing conditions of blood vessels inside the eye with the damage that...

Treatment For Sleep Apnea Found To Lower Blood Glucose Levels

...ith sleep apnea are nine-times more likely to have diabetes than those without the sleep disorder. Based on f... recent study researchers say patients with type 2 diabetes who also suffer from sleep apnea can lower glucose levels by receiving the most common sleep apnea t...

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