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Shellfish Can Raise Diabetes Risk

Posted: Monday, November 02, 2009

A new U.K. study showed that eating white and oily fish regularly may provide protection against Type 2 diabetes but eating shellfish may have the opposite effect.

Updated 2009 Diabetes Prevalence and Diagnosis in US by States

Posted: Wednesday, October 21, 2009

The numbers are in and it looks like we have not improved and it will get worse.

Neighborhoods Can Increase the Risk for Diabetes

Posted: Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Individuals living in neighborhoods conducive to physical activity and providing access to healthy foods may have a lower risk of developing Type 2 diabetes by 38% in a five-year period, according to a report.

New Definition of Metabolic Syndrome

Posted: Wednesday, October 21, 2009

A new joint statement from a number of professional organizations has identified specific criteria for the clinical diagnosis of metabolic syndrome, tightening up the definition, which previously differed from one organization to the next.

Excess Weight Gain in Small Children Raises Metabolic Risk Factors by Age Four

Posted: Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Very young children who gain more weight, relative to their height, than their peers have more metabolic risk factors at 4 years of age, according to study findings.

Low Rates of Postpartum Diabetes Screening

Posted: Wednesday, October 14, 2009

The rate of postpartum diabetes screening is low, according to the results of a retrospective cohort study.

Treating Mild Gestational Diabetes Reduces Serious Birthing Problems

Posted: Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Treating pregnant women for mild gestational diabetes resulted in fewer cesarean sections and other serious birthing problems associated with larger than average babies, according to a recent study.

Link between Male Diabetes Patients with Allergies and Kidney Disease

Posted: Wednesday, September 30, 2009

For men with Type 2 diabetes, the eosinophil (a cell type linked to allergic inflammation) cell count may be able to estimate the risk of diabetes-related kidney and heart disease in men. This comes from a recently published study in Japan.

African Americans' Diabetes Prevalence Linked to Living Conditions

Posted: Wednesday, September 30, 2009

The higher incidence of diabetes among African Americans when compared to whites may have more to do with living conditions than genetics, according to a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.

Update on Dr. Faustman's Research on Reversing Type 1 Diabetes

Posted: Wednesday, September 23, 2009

The Faustman Lab at Massachusetts General Hospital, run by Denise L. Faustman, MD, PhD, is moving rapidly through the clinical trial challenge to test and possibly establish a vaccine using a generic drug, Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) to reverse Type 1 diabetes.