Archive for 'Diabetes'
Increasing Soda Consumption Fuels Rise in Diabetes, Heart Disease (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
FRIDAY, March 5 (HealthDay News) –Increasing consumption of sugary soft drinks contributed to 130,000 new cases of diabetes, 14,000 new cases of heart disease and 50,000 more life-years burdened with heart disease in the last decade, a new U.S. study finds. Read more.
Full StoryGeorgetown star Freeman is diagnosed with diabetes – Philadelphia Daily News
Georgetown’s leading scorer Austin Freeman has been diagnosed with diabetes, leaving his status uncertain for the team’s upcoming games. Freeman returned to practice Wednesday and yesterday after missing Monday night’s loss to West Virginia. He was … Read more.
Full StoryLunchtime coffee cuts diabetes risk – Khaleej Times
NEW YORK â Drinking coffee cuts diabetes risk, new research confirms, but you may need to enjoy your java with lunch if you want to get any benefit. A study in nearly 70,000 women found that those who drank at least a cup of coffee with lunch were … Read more.
Full StoryGeorgetown Hoyas get back Austin Freeman after diabetes diagnosis (ESPN)
Austin Freeman is back in the starting lineup for Georgetown after being diagnosed with diabetes. Read more.
Full StoryFamily Finds Comfort In Dealing With Diabetes (Elk Grove Journal)
Samantha Jacobsen was 2-½ years old when she was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. Diabetes is when the body has trouble regulating blood glucose, or blood sugar levels. Type 1 is also called Juvenile Diabetes or Insulin-Dependent Diabetes, according to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Read more.
Full StoryCardiovascular Benefits of Statins vs. Risk for Incident Diabetes – General Medicine
Comment: Although statins might cause one additional case of diabetes per 255 nondiabetic patients treated for 4 years, data from another meta-analysis indicate that statins would prevent five major coronary events in those 255 patients. Therefore, the authors recommend that risk for diabetes should not deter therapy with statins in patients at moderate-to-high cardiovascular risk, […]
Full StoryNew Markers Discovered For Early Detection Of Type 1 Diabetes
Diabetes can be dangerous – especially when the disease is not diagnosed in time. Munich scientists of Helmholtz Zentrum München and Technische Universität München have identified new markers which enable an early diagnosis and prognosis of type 1 diabetes.
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