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According to researchers in the U.S. as many as one in three American teens are physically unfit and already have many of the risk factors for heart disease.

Lace up your walking shoes before hitting the holiday banquet table. Just one long walk can protect your heart from fatty foods, making it easier to eat, drink, and be merry with minimal guilt.

New Discovery Improves Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases and Type 2 Diabetes New method is able to identify the precise zones of each protein that force the proteins to bond, aggregate and form amyloid fibers. New method very useful for designing new drugs to prevent the protein aggregation.

Compared to whites with type 2 diabetes, blacks with type 2 diabetes suffer more heart attacks, strokes, and end-stage renal disease, but African Americans appear to have significantly lower rates of clinical coronary artery disease than whites.

There appears to be an association between increased total glycosylated hemoglobin (GHb) levels and increased age at menarche in young women with type 1 diabetes.

Nearly one in five Americans from the age of 12 through 49 — an estimated 16 million — can’t pass a simple physical fitness treadmill test.

Results of a published study suggest that glucose has an inhibitory influence on food intake in type 2 diabetic patients.

In hypertensive patients with type 2 diabetes, carvedilol reduces microalbuminuria to a greater extent than does metoprolol.

Results of a 14-year prospective study suggest, that abnormal levels of plasma total cholesterol (TC), non-high density lipoprotein cholesterol (non-HDL-C) and the TC/HDL-C ratio are independently associated with a subsequent increased risk of incident hypertension in men.

European regulators said they were reviewing the safety of two popular oral diabetes drugs, Actos and Avandia following rare case of eye problems that may be associated with the medicines.