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Dairy-Deficient Diet May Determine Diabetes Risk

Posted: Thursday, July 19, 2007

A lack of vitamin D and calcium in the diet may increase the risk for the metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes in patients with impaired glucose tolerance, nutrition researchers found.

Progression of Newly Diagnosed Impaired Fasting Glucose to Diabetes in 3 Years

Posted: Thursday, July 19, 2007

On average, a person newly diagnosed with elevated fasting blood sugars above 100mg/dL progresses to diabetes within less then 3 years. Telling patients with prediabetes to watch what they eat and exercise and come back next year, doesn't work! More aggressive therapy is needed.

Progression of Newly Diagnosed Impaired Fasting Glucose to Diabetes in 3 Years

Posted: Saturday, July 14, 2007

On average, a person newly diagnosed with elevated fasting blood sugars above 100mg/dL progresses to diabetes within less then 3 years. Telling patients with prediabetes to watch what they eat and exercise and come back next year, doesn't work! More aggressive therapy is needed.

Anti-Fat Injection Can Melt Fat Away, Reducing Risk for Metabolic Syndrome

Posted: Saturday, July 14, 2007

For those who eat to combat stress, researchers here may have made a dream come true -- an injection that inhibits a well-know peptide, that makes fat melt away, at least in mice.

Neuropathy Most Likely to Strike in Type 2 Diabetes Not in Type 1

Posted: Saturday, July 07, 2007

Painful neuropathy is more common in patients with type 2 diabetes than in those with type 1, due to metabolic syndrome, researchers suggest, because of a link with the metabolic syndrome.

Markers of "Prediabetes" Independently Raises Mortality Risk 60%

Posted: Saturday, July 07, 2007

Markers of impaired glucose metabolism in nondiabetics were independently related to increased risks of all-cause and cardiovascular death in a large population-based study.

Diabetes Risk Factors Develop Earlier in Women

Posted: Thursday, March 22, 2007

The "diabetes clock" may start ticking in women years in advance of a medical diagnosis of the disease, new research has shown.

Replacing Red Meat With Soy Improves Metabolic Syndrome

Posted: Thursday, March 22, 2007

Soy as a replacement for red meat in a DASH eating plan had beneficial effects on features of the metabolic syndrome, soy-nut being more effective than soy-protein.

Sleep Expert Issues Wake Up Call To Women Who Snore-Diabetes Is A Risk

Posted: Thursday, March 01, 2007

New research shows that snoring doesn't have to be loud to cause health problems especially in women, according to sleep expert and Professor of Medicine at the University of Sydney, Colin Sullivan. FDA

Refined Definition of Metabolic Syndrome Better Predicts Future Diabetes

Posted: Thursday, December 07, 2006

A newly validated definition of metabolic syndrome that uses continuous rather than categorical variables has better predictive power for future diabetes.