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Folate may offer extra protection against stroke, on top of reducing levels of an amino acid related to the incident.

Maternal hypertension improves neonatal physiology and survival in small for gestational age infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).

Glyburide may control gestational diabetes unresponsive to diet therapy.

French researchers have identified a gene associated with increased risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes in children and adults.

People’s bodies respond to exercise in different ways, and their genetic makeup is partly responsible.

Engaging in regular vigorous physical activity before pregnancy reduces the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM).

Retinopathy can lead to blindness in people with diabetes and may occur far sooner than previously thought, possibly when patients are still in the prediabetes stage or when glucose levels are only slightly higher than normal.

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Hyperlipidemic subjects were 43% more likely to have dementia than normolipidemic subjects.

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