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Obese Girls Risk a Threefold Risk for Early Death as Adults
Females who are obese during adolescence are much more likely to die before they become elderly than slim counterparts, researchers report.
Read More »Study: Common Infections May Be A Trigger for Diabetes in Children
July 2006 – A major study has added weight to the theory that environmental factors such as common infections may be a trigger for diabetes in children and young adults.
Read More »Healthy Lifestyle Reduces Women’s Stroke Risk
July 2006 : Women who are non-smokers, exercise regularly, have a healthy diet, including moderate alcohol consumption, and otherwise live a healthy lifestyle may have a reduced risk of stroke, according to a report in the July 10 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Read More »Discovery May Explain Gender Gap In Disease Risk, Drug Response
July 2006 : UCLA researchers report that thousands of genes behave differently in the same organs of males and females ? something never detected to this degree. Published in the August issue of Genome Research, the study sheds light on why the same disease often strikes males and females differently, …
Read More »Diabetes Disease-Management Programs Improve Quality of Care?
Just how effective are diabetes management programs?
Read More »Diabetes Increasingly Prevalent in Heart Failure
The prevalence of diabetes mellitus is increasing among older persons with heart failure, and diabetes is a significant independent risk factor for death in these patients
Read More »Diabetes Increases Risk of Infection in Renal Transplant Recipients
Renal transplant graft recipients with diabetes, whether long-standing or newly diagnosed, are at heightened risk of developing infections requiring hospitalization in the posttransplant period.
Read More »Platelet Dysfunction Increased in Type 2 Diabetics Requiring Insulin
Patients with type 2 diabetes on insulin therapy and oral anti-platelet agents for coronary artery disease (CAD) have a greater degree of platelet dysfunction than do similar patients who receive other anti-diabetic therapies.
Read More »Bush Veto’s Bill To Further Embryonic Stem-Cell Research
Bush adopts the so-called moral high ground and chooses to ignore scientific advice.
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