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Thirty Million Americans Have Normal-Weight-Obesity: A recent report suggests that fat in your body can get you and your heart into trouble even if you don’t look fat and if the scale tells you you’re healthy. In a study that looked at data from 6,171 Americans with normal body size, …

Key to Reversing Type 1 Diabetes Discovered: Doctors at Eastern Virginia Medical School’s Strelitz Diabetes Center have been stalking the culprit responsible for Type 1 diabetes. Now, they are one step closer. See this week’s Item #9.

Normal Glucose Greater than 85mg/dL in Kids Predicts Diabetes Later: Increases in fasting plasma glucose during childhood — even though levels remain in the normal range (85-100mg/dL.) — can predict adult prediabetes and Type 2 diabetes later in life, a retrospective cohort study showed. Among individuals with a fasting plasma …

GlucoPro Insulin Syringes Voluntarily Recalled A voluntary nationwide recall of all GlucoPro Insulin Syringes (Nipro Medical Corporation) is underway, according to a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) notification to healthcare professionals. The alert notes that syringes may have needles that detach from the syringe. “If the needle becomes detached …

Approval of Diamyd’s Diabetes Vaccine Set for 2011: The diabetes vaccine being developing by Diamyd is not far from being approved. Diamyd is using two different technologies: the first is based on a GAD65 molecule. The molecule was shown to stall the destruction of beta cells connected with Type 1 …

Cerebral Macrovascular Disease Predicts Renal Failure in Type 2 Diabetes: In patients with Type 2 diabetes, silent cerebral infarction signaled an increased risk for progressive renal disease and renal failure, independent of microalbuminuria, according to a new study. During a mean 7.5 years of follow-up, patients with diabetes and silent …

Hypertension Identified as Number One Global Risk for Mortality: Hypertension is the leading global risk for mortality, responsible for 12.8% (7.5 million) of total deaths worldwide, according to a new report from the WHO. The report also identified hypertension as responsible for 3.8% of years of life lost due to …

Novo Nordisk’s Once A Day Victoza(R) Receives FDA Approval for Adults with Type 2 Diabetes. Sibutramine Contraindicated in Patients with a History of Cardiovascular Disease — Sibutramine, marketed as Meridia in the US by Abbott, is now contraindicated in patients with a history of cardiovascular disease, the FDA announced. FDA …

One in five teens at risk of heart disease due to high cholesterol: One out of every five US teenagers has a cholesterol level that increases the risk of heart disease, federal health officials reported, providing striking new evidence that obesity is making more children prone to illnesses once primarily …

Too much sitting as bad as too little exercise: Sitting all day may significantly boost the risk of lifestyle-related disease even if one adds a regular dose of moderate or vigorous exercise. The study shows that each daily one-hour increase in sitting time while watching television upped the rate of …