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Patients with early type 2 diabetes who took insulin-glargine injections showed reductions in atherosclerosis measures, while those who took omega-3 capsules did not. The findings suggest that fish oil supplements do not provide protection against atherosclerosis progression and should not be recommended to patients for that purpose, researchers said. Diabetes …

A study looked at 625 children from 4th to 6th grades in San Antonio, Texas. The researchers surveyed the children once a year and asked them what they had eaten for breakfast in the previous three days. After the children were surveyed, the researchers calculated their BMI. When the children …

Data on nearly 3,900 young adults showed those with higher levels of mercury had a 65% greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes but also had healthier lifestyles compared with other participants. The lead researcher said the findings emphasize the importance of choosing seafood known to contain low levels of …

It’s estimated a third of Canadians will have either diabetes or prediabetes by 2020. "Pre-diabetes I like to think of as the waiting room to diabetes," said guideline chair and Toronto endocrinologist Dr. Alice Cheng. "We want to be able to identify who is sitting in that waiting room and …

Researchers found that even those with mild symptoms of psoriasis face a significant risk for diabetes. They analyzed data from a populational cohort of participants 10 years of age or older in January 1997 and followed through December 2009. Of the 4,614,807 subjects studied, 52,613 patients had psoriasis, including 6,784 …

Researchers presented a study at an AHA meeting which found that adults who consumed canola or high-oleic canola oils on a daily basis for four weeks lowered their belly fat by 1.6%. Abdominal fat was unchanged by the other three oils studied, which included a flax/safflower oil blend, corn/safflower oil …

A breath test profile of microorganisms inhabiting the gut may be able to tell doctors how susceptible a person is to developing obesity. The study shows that people whose breath has high concentrations of both hydrogen and methane gasses are more likely to have a higher BMI and percentage of …

One impact of the obesity epidemic is that people are now too fat to ride horses. A third of recreational riders are too heavy for their beasts of burden, and are giving the animals health problems including lameness and back pain. The rotundness of their riders may also be leading …

Norwegian researchers found adults with diabetes were two to three times as likely as those without the condition to die from CVD. However, diabetes patients who reported 1 to 2 hours of weekly exercise had a similar risk as inactive adults who didn‘t have diabetes, researchers wrote. "In conclusion, the …

 In the retrospective study, researchers from Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit examined data from more than 4,400 patients taking diabetes medications between 2000 and 2012. About 1,500 were taking GLP-1 medications and nearly 3,000 were not. Over an average 9-month follow-up period, patients taking GLP-1 medications were 41% less likely …