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Study Reveals Large Gaps In Diabetes Care
A new study from the Health Department reveals huge gaps in the care that New Yorkers with diabetes receive. If we see this in a city that is pro-active in diabetes care, then what is happening in the rest of the U.S.?
Read More »Running Slows The Aging Clock, Researchers Find
Regular running slows the effects of aging, according to a new study from Stanford University School of Medicine that has tracked 500 older runners for more than 20 years.
Read More »Study Shows Type I Diabetes Is A Genetic Disease
A 40-year study of identical twins at the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes is finding that four out of five people eventually develop the disease after their identical twin gets it first.
Read More »Can Long-Term, Low-Dose Aspirin Prevent Type 2 Diabetes in Healthy Women?
Although small clinical studies have shown a prominent hypoglycemic effect of short-term high-dose aspirin, no randomized trials have directly evaluated the efficacy of aspirin in diabetes prevention at doses acceptable for use in routine clinical practice. This study evaluated whether chronic low-dose aspirin prevents the development of clinical diabetes among …
Read More »It’s Here, A New Disease For The 21st Century: “PreObesity”
The risk of heart failure goes up 11% for every one-point increase in body-mass index (BMI)
Read More »85% of Type 1 Children are Vitamin D Deficient
Three-quarters of children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes had insufficient levels of vitamin D in a study conducted by researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center.
Read More »Type 1 Diabetes May Be Triggered By Common Infant Virus
From the findings of a study from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, comes the information that the Human parechovirus is a harmless virus which is encountered by most infants and displays few symptoms. But is suspected of triggering type 1 diabetes in susceptible people.
Read More »The Relationship Of Coffee Consumption With Mortality
Regular coffee consumption was not associated with an increased mortality rate in either men or women.
Read More »Gastric Bypass (Lap-Band) Halts Diabetes in Obese Teens
Surgery could help them avoid long-term complications of blood sugar disease, scientists say. But changing the diet and increasing physical activity can have the same results. Is this really a magic pill? What happens over time?
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