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Your mother’s nutritional habits during pregnancy might make you predisposed to high blood pressure later in life.

A virus generally believed to be a cause of diabetes might actually help protect people against the disorder.

Midterm mortality and morbidity were significantly greater for patients with diabetes.

By reducing the amount of insulin, subjects stayed lean.

Hormone therapy reduces the risk of type 2 diabetes in postmenopausal women who have heart disease.

New approach to predicting who is most at risk for type 1 diabetes by the use of a test to measure biological markers for destroyed beta cells.

One of the more exciting therapeutic ideas for type 1 diabetes is islet transplantation. In this procedure, islet cells, which produce insulin in healthy non-diabetics but are damaged in type I diabetes, are surgically transplanted into diabetic patients. While this technology is significantly more advanced than other strategies (such as …

Hypertension is defined as the sustained elevation of either or both systolic and diastolic blood pressure while at rest. There are several different classifications of hypertension, but the two main categories are primary, also called essential hypertension, and secondary hypertension. The majority of all those diagnosed with hypertension fall under …

Even mild increase of homocysteinemia play an important role in the progression of atherosclerosis, either in coronary or peripheral arteries.

Difference in plasma norepinephrine was significantly less in patients with painful neuropathy.