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Mortality Rate From Diabetes Increasing Worldwide

Posted: Friday, November 11, 2005

According to the World Health Organization, there were at least 170 million people with diabetes around the world in the year 2000. Seven and a half million people with diabetes died that year but deaths directly caused by diabetes were estimated to be 2.9 million, or 5.2% of total deaths.

Obesity and Diabetes Independently Linked to Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes

Posted: Friday, November 11, 2005

Pre-pregnancy weight above 149 pounds was tied to increased risks of preeclampsia in all ethnic groups. In the combined analysis, increased body weight raised the risk of primary cesarean delivery, but was tied to reduced risk of low birthweight

Proportion of Cancer Due to Obesity High: Study

Posted: Friday, November 11, 2005

In the United States, roughly 10% of all cancers -- more than 100,000 cases a year -- could be avoided if overweight and obesity did not exist "We can clearly conclude that adult overweight and obesity cause cancer,"

Two "Diabetes Genes" Predict the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes

Posted: Friday, November 11, 2005

Scandinavian researchers have confirmed that at least two "diabetes genes" predict the risk of Type 2 diabetes (T2D) when combined with lifestyle factors, in the largest study of its kind to date.

Why Our Tongues Our Are Worst Enemy in Controlling Diabetes

Posted: Friday, November 11, 2005

New research has shown that the tongue may indeed have a taste for cheesecake, french fries and butter cookies.

French scientists identified a receptor on the tongue that appears to detect dietary fat. This counters the traditional view that the taste buds pick up only five basic flavors: sweet, sour, salty, bitter and "umami," — a flavor associated with the food additive monosodium glutamate (MSG).

21 Million Americans (7%) Have Diabetes, CDC Finds

Posted: Friday, November 04, 2005

Nearly 21 million Americans have diabetes, most of them the type-2 variety associated with being overweight, too little exercise and poor diet, reported the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Any Level of Exercise Can Help

Posted: Friday, November 04, 2005

Baffled or annoyed by the federal government's 30-minutes-per-day-of-moderate-exercise-five-days-per-week dictum? A new study suggests that clearing a lower bar offers significant health benefits.

Just an additional 3200 steps a day, not 10,000 shows fitness gains

Depression May Up Type 2 Diabetes Death Risk

Posted: Friday, November 04, 2005

A new study of people with type 2 diabetes shows a higher death rate among depressed patients over a three-year period. The higher death rates were seen in patients with minor depression and those with major depression

Fasting Glucose Levels Not The Best Indicator of Diabetes Risk

Posted: Friday, November 04, 2005

"People and physicians should not look only on the current definition of normal and abnormal blood glucose levels when assessing an individual’s risk to develop diabetes A careful interpretation of the body mass index, the triglyceride level and the patient`s family history of diabetes is needed in order to better identify those at high risk,"

GlaxoSmithKline, American Pharmacists Association Foundation To Launch Program To Reduce Employer Costs for Diabetes for Ten Cities

Posted: Friday, November 04, 2005

Under the Ten City Challenge project -- based on an eight-year initiative in Asheville, N.C. -- participating employers must agree to waive workers' copayments on medicines to treat diabetes to encourage the drugs' use.