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Liposuction Has No Health Benefits For Diabetes or Heart Disease

Posted: Tuesday, June 22, 2004

A new report published in The New England Journal of Medicine challenges several earlier studies, preliminary ones suggesting that liposuction could improve health by lowering blood fats and other risk factors linked to diabetes.
One reason for the finding may be that liposuction removes fat only from under the skin, whereas dieting and exercise reduce deeper deposits in the organs and inside the abdomen; such deposits are believed to be more dangerous

Cholesterol & Hypertension Uncontrolled In People With Diabetes

Posted: Thursday, June 10, 2004

People with diabetes and their doctors are failing to give cholesterol and blood pressure control the attention needed to reduce the high risk for heart attacks and strokes in diabetes. Physicians around the world and their patients are failing to make the link science has long since proven — that two out of three people with diabetes die from heart disease and stroke.”

Cholesterol & Hypertension Uncontrolled In People With Diabetes

Posted: Thursday, June 10, 2004

People with diabetes and their doctors are failing to give cholesterol and blood pressure control the attention needed to reduce the high risk for heart attacks and strokes in diabetes,“Physicians around the world and their patients are failing to make the link science has long since proven — that two out of three people with diabetes die from heart disease and stroke.”

Childhood Obesity A Major Problem And Is Getting Worse

Posted: Saturday, May 29, 2004

If an answer to this obesity epidemic is not found soon, for the first time this century, the present generation of children will not live as long as their parents "This trend shows us our children are becoming more obese at a younger age and if we don't address this problem, the health consequence for obesity include premature death from heart disease, diabetes, cancer, breathing problems and arthritis

New Onset Diabetes Increases Risk For Heart Attack 3 Fold

Posted: Friday, May 14, 2004

Compared with patients without diabetes, those with new diabetes were 2.9-times more likely to experience a heart attack or related event -- an elevated risk similar to the 3.6-fold risk seen in patients with long-standing diabetes.

Long-Term Diabetes Control Pays Off for the Heart

Posted: Thursday, April 22, 2004

A mean HbA1c of 8.4% or greater predicted cardiac autonomic dysfunction. They have found that good long-term glucose control by type 1 diabetic patients preserves the automatic responses of the heart to varying situations, while a lack of adequate glycemic control leads to poor so-called cardiac autonomic function

Relationship Between Obesity-Associated Diabetes And Heart Disease Pinpointed

Posted: Saturday, April 10, 2004

A major link between obesity and insulin resistance is a high level of free fatty acids, which cause insulin resistance and seem to simultaneously set off inflammation, which can be the missing link to heart disease.

Longer Diabetes Means Higher Heart Risk

Posted: Monday, April 05, 2004

Investigators found that for every 10 years a person has diabetes, his or her chance of developing heart disease increases by 38 percent. Furthermore, after 10 years of diabetes, the risk of dying from heart disease increases by nearly 90 percent.

Death Risk 70% Higher in Diabetics with Heart Failure

Posted: Wednesday, March 31, 2004

Diabetes increases the overall risk of death by 70 percent in diabetic women hospitalized with heart failure.

Statins Are Underused and Underdosed!

Posted: Thursday, March 18, 2004

The practice of under-dosing statins is just bad medicine and bad economics because low-dose statins do not offer the cardiovascular disease protection of higher-dose statins, so the patients have not reduced their risk of cardiovascular events.