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Risk of Diabetes Reduced by 58% With Active Counseling and Continues After Counseling Stops Posted: Wednesday, November 22, 2006

The effects of lifestyle intervention on diabetes risk do not disappear after active counseling has stopped, even after three plus years.

Obese Kidney Transplant Patients Twice As Likely To Die In The First Year Posted: Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Six per cent of patients with a BMI of more than 30 died in the first year after transplant, compared with three per cent of patients with a BMI of less than 30.

Panic Attacks Exacerbate Diabetes Symptoms Posted: Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Repeated panic attacks in people with diabetes can lead to poorer control of the illness, more severe health complications, and a reduced quality of life.

Diabetes Drug Reduces Cardiovascular Risks Posted: Wednesday, November 22, 2006

A drug commonly used to increase the body's sensitivity to insulin may slow the progression of cardiovascular disease in patients with type 2 diabetes, according to a study at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine.

Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome Treated with Malaria Drug Posted: Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Studies of a rare genetic condition that increases cancer risk have unveiled a potential treatment for metabolic syndrome, and diabetes disorders that afflicts as many as one in every four American adults and puts them at sharply increased risk cardiovascular disease, heart attacks and strokes.

Rimonabant (Accomplia) to Treat Obesity and Improve Glycemic Control Approved in Mexico Posted: Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Accomplia is now approved in Europe and Mexico, US next?

Height Directly Linked to Risk of Peripheral Insensate Neuropathy Posted: Thursday, November 16, 2006

Tall people, regardless of whether they have diabetes or not, are at increased risk for peripheral insensate neuropathy.

Human Stem Cells Stimulate Insulin Production in Diabetic Mice Posted: Thursday, November 16, 2006

Transplantation of human stromal cells into diabetic mice stimulated native mouse beta cells to produce insulin, and the human cells were taken up into the animals' glomerular epithelium.

Children's Belly Fat Increases More Than 65 Percent Since 1990's Posted: Thursday, November 16, 2006

Abdominal obesity increased more than 65 percent among boys and almost 70 percent among girls between 1988 and 2004. The finding of growing girth is significant because abdominal obesity has emerged as a better predictor of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes risk than the more commonly used Body Mass Index, a weight to height ratio that can sometimes be misleading.

Three Years Later, Participants in the Diabetes Prevention Study Still Benefiting Posted: Thursday, November 16, 2006

The effects of lifestyle intervention on diabetes risk do not disappear after active counseling has stopped, a new follow-up of the Finnish Diabetes Prevention Study shows.

 

 

 

 

 

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