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People With Diabetes More Sensitive to Cardiovascular Effects from Air Pollution

Posted: Monday, June 13, 2005

Hospitalizations and deaths related to cardiovascular problems increased among diabetics when levels of air pollution were higher.

Chromium Good for the Diabetic Heart

Posted: Friday, June 10, 2005

Chromium supplementation can lead to a shortening of a harmful heart rhythm, which may lower cardiovascular risk in type 2 diabetics

Alter Your DNA Linked to Diabetes and CVD With Exercise

Posted: Thursday, May 12, 2005

They found that many activated genes are likely linked to diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Muscle study reveals how physical training activates hundreds of genes.

Research May Re-Define Management of Heart Failure in Diabetes

Posted: Thursday, May 05, 2005

Control of oxidized copper levels in the body may be as important as lowering blood glucose levels in preventing cardiovascular complications in diabetes

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

Diabetes Tests 'Offer Cure Hope'

Posted: Thursday, December 09, 2004

Some patients have already been cured by islet cell transplants, but a major obstacle is a shortage of donor pancreases to harvest the cells from.
Now National Institute of Health scientists say they have found a way to make more of the cells required.

One-Third of Patients Older Than 50 With Diabetes Have PAD

Posted: Thursday, December 09, 2004

Patients with diabetes and PAD have already developed evidence of atherosclerosis and are at increased risk for myocardial infarction, stroke, or cardiovascular death, even without symptoms.

Cardiovascular Events Declining In US Diabetics, BUT!

Posted: Wednesday, December 01, 2004

Between 1950 and 1995, there was a 50% drop in the rate of incident cardiovascular events among patients with diabetes. But diabetic patients are still twice as likely to experience such events as people without diabetes.

Increased Chromium Absorption Linked with Reduction in Cardiovascular Risk Factor

Posted: Tuesday, November 30, 2004

A new randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study found a significant correlation between increased urinary chromium levels -- a measure of chromium absorption -- and reductions in cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors, including total cholesterol, triglycerides, LDL cholesterol and lipid ratios in people with type 2 diabetes.

More Than Half of Adult Diabetics in US Are Obese

Posted: Tuesday, November 30, 2004

The CDC found that between 1999 and 2002, 54.8% of diabetics over the age of 19 were obese. An increasing number of American adults diagnosed with diabetes are obese, making it more likely they will develop cardiovascular disease, retinopathy and other health problems, U.S. officials said.