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Preventing Diabetes Hospitalizations Could Save U.S. $2.5 Billion Annually

Posted: Friday, March 11, 2005

Hospital costs for patients with multiple stays averaged $23,100 and women with diabetes were two to four times as likely to be hospitalized for cardiovascular disease as women who did not have diabetes

Depression Increases Insulin Resistance, Diabetes in Middle-Aged Women

Posted: Monday, January 17, 2005

Results of a new study provide more evidence that depression influences glucose metabolism and risk of diabetes. The incidence of diabetes was highest in African-American women in the 3 years of follow-up and was more than twice that of white women.

Ethnicity Affects Impact of Vitamin D on Diabetes

Posted: Wednesday, December 15, 2004

As serum levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D increase, the risk of diabetes decreases in non-Hispanic whites and Mexican Americans, but not seen in blacks.

Family Bonds Tied to Diabetes Control

Posted: Wednesday, December 15, 2004

The results of a study show that families play an important role in how well African-Americans with diabetes manage their disease.

Diabetes Rates Are Higher Along Our Borders

Posted: Tuesday, November 30, 2004

The survey found the rate of diabetes was 15.7 percent among adults, which is more than 3 percent higher than previous studies.This is higher than the comparable 13.9-percent rate of diabetes in the United States and 14.9-percent rate in Mexico, the report said

Super-Sizing Asian Americans

Posted: Monday, November 15, 2004

Percentage of low-income Asian and Pacific Islander children in California who are overweight more than doubled between 1994 and 2003, from 7 percent to 15 percen. tLow-income Asian and Pacific Islander children in California are becoming overweight at an alarming rate -- and will soon catch up to low-income white, black and Latino children in the proportion who are overweight or obese, according to research reported at the 5th Asian American Cancer Control Academy. The percentage

School-based Program Cuts Children's Diabetes Risk

Posted: Wednesday, September 29, 2004

Among Mexican-American children at high risk for developing diabetes, a school-based prevention program led to statistically significant increases in fitness levels and reductions in fasting glucose levels, researchers report.

Diabetes Now Mexico's Leading Cause of Death

Posted: Wednesday, September 08, 2004

Diabetes has overtaken poverty-related infections to become the leading cause of death in Mexico, and WHO is warning that a devastating global diabetes epidemic is looming.

Hispanics More Prone to Blindness From Diabetes

Posted: Tuesday, September 07, 2004

Results from the Los Angeles Latino Eye Study, published this summer in the journal Ophthalmology, show high rates of eye diseases such as diabetic retinopathy and open-angle glaucoma among 6,357 Latinos age 40 or older. The people are primarily of Minorities. Higher rates of diabetic retinopathy, a complication of diabetes, in the Latino population are closely tied to high rates of diabetes.

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Millions of Hispanics at Increased Risk for Type 2 Diabetes

Posted: Tuesday, July 13, 2004

Without intervention, one in three children born in the year 2000 will develop diabetes in his or her lifetime. For some of us, the risk is even higher. If that child is Hispanic and female, she has a one in two chance of developing diabetes in her lifetime. We need to get the word out that type 2 diabetes prevention is proven, possible, and powerful."

While diabetes is a growing epidemic for Hispanics, a recent landmark study found that type 2 diabetes