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    Diabetes

    To control this and avoid from this fatal disease must be take the hard exercise even to take the yoga in order to fit the body and just to control the sugar by all means.If medicen necessary then use other wise be save form the medical treatment.
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    The Most Successful Strategy For Diabetes Is Early, Intensive Treatment

    Intensive early treatment of type 2 diabetes slows down progression of the disease by preserving the body's insulin-producing capacity, a UT Southwestern study has shown. "We can potentially change the course of this prevalent disease, which would represent a breakthrough," said Dr. Ildiko...
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    Database Of More Than 1 Million Diverse Diabetes Patients Used To Find Better Treatme

    Eleven integrated health systems, with more than 16 million members, have combined de-identified data from their electronic health records to form the largest, most comprehensive private-sector diabetes registry in the nation. According to a new study published in the Centers for Disease Control...
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    Kidney Failure In Type 2 Diabetes May Not Be Reduced By Aggressive Glucose Control

    Yale School of Medicine researchers have found that intensively controlling glucose (glycemic) levels in type-2 diabetes patients may not reduce the risk of kidney failure. The study, which is a review of data from seven clinical trials, is published in the May 28 issue of Archives of Internal...
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    Teen Diabetes Increased Almost 300%; Why Politicians Need To Fix This

    A new study just confirmed that the number of teens with diabetes today*has increased*almost 300%. Shocking, right? Of course, but equally as shocking is that not enough people in power are really doing anything about this. So here's*an idea for all the politicians out there vying for our...
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    In Rat Model Of Diabetes, Experimental Bariatric Surgery Controls Blood Sugar

    For the first time, scientists at the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute have shown that an experimental bariatric surgery can lower blood sugar levels in rats with type 1 diabetes. A team led by Dr. Tony Lam and Dr. Danna Breen, a post- doctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Lam, used a rat...
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    An Estimated 53 Million Americans May Have Diabetes By 2025

    The Diabetes 2025 Model for the U.S. projects a continuous and dramatic increase in the diabetes epidemic and makes it possible to estimate the potential effects of society-wide changes in lifestyle and healthcare delivery systems. Predictions for individual states and population subgroups are...
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    Teenagers With Type 2 Diabetes Benefit From Metformin And Rosiglitazone Combo

    A combination of two diabetes drugs, metformin and rosiglitazone, was more effective in treating youth with recent-onset type 2 diabetes than metformin alone, a study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has found. Adding an intensive lifestyle intervention to metformin provided no...
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    Animal Model For Xenotransplantation As A Therapy For Type 1 Diabetes

    Type1 diabetes is caused by autoimmune destruction of the insulin-producing beta cells. Over 250,000 patients suffer from type 1 diabetes in Germany who are treated with daily insulin injections to maintain glucose metabolism. Replacement of the destroyed beta cells by transplantation of either...
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    The Risk Of Parkinson's Disease In Diabetes Can Be Substantially Reduced By Metformin

    A major 12-year study based on a Taiwanese population cohort has demonstrated that not only does diabetes increase the risk of developing Parkinson's disease more than 2-fold, the use of sulfonylureas, commonly used as treatment for diabetes, increases the risk further by about 57%. This study...
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    Potential For Treating Diabetes Via Glucagon Pathway

    Maintaining the right level of sugar in the blood is the responsibility not only of insulin, which removes glucose, but also of a hormone called glucagon, which adds glucose. For decades, treatments for type II diabetes have taken aim at insulin, but a new study suggests that a better approach...
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    Not Just Beauty Rest: Study Links Lack Of Sleep To Diabetes, Obesity

    No matter what kind of health or beauty goals you have, one of the most consistent recommendations from experts across the board is to get more sleep. And the benefits aren't limited to better skin or feeling slightly more alert in the morning; they also include a lower risk of diabetes and...
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    Maternal Obesity, Diabetes Linked To Autism; Is Jessica Simpson Putting Her Baby At R

    Children born to obese, hypertensive or diabetic mothers are 60% more likely to be autistic or have other developmental delays, according to a new study. This adds to a wealth of evidence linking maternal obesity with unhealthy or impaired children. Yet whenever the issue of pregnancy and weight...
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    From Cancer Drug To Diabetes

    The drug known as rapamycin is widely used by cancer and transplant patients, and there are hints that it might even help us put off old age and live longer. But, it also comes with a downside: rapamycin leads to diabetes in as many as 15 percent of the people who take it. Now, researchers...
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    Paula Deen Pretends To Be Poor To Avoid Discussing How Diabetes Works

    Paula Deen's first interview since announcing her type 2 diabetes was just published in Prevention, and she's proving to be one crafty PR maven. The magazine pressed her on criticisms that her signature brand of unhealthy cooking is at odds with her new role as diabetes drug spokesperson, but...
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    Association Between Alcohol And Diabetes Supported By Study

    Subjects in a cohort in Sweden, some of whom had been exposed to a community intervention program to prevent diabetes, were evaluated 8-10 years after baseline for the presence of diabetes mellitus or impaired glucose metabolism ("pre-diabetes") in relation to a baseline report of alcohol...
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    Dieting During Pregnancy Increases Risk Of Obesity And Diabetes For Offspring

    If you're expecting, this might make you feel a little better about reaching for that pint of ice cream: New research published online in the FASEB Journal suggests that twins, and babies of mothers who diet around the time of conception and in early pregnancy, may have an increased risk of...
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    Risk Of Heart Disease In Type 2 Diabetes May Be Reduced By Vitamin D-Fortified Yogurt

    Daily intake of vitamin D-fortified doogh (Persian yogurt drink) improved inflammatory markers in type 2 diabetics and extra calcium conferred additional anti-inflammatory benefits, according to a recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology...
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    Mentoring Provides Health Benefits For African American Veterans With Diabetes

    Intervention by peer mentors has a statistically significant effect on improving glucose control in African American veterans with diabetes, according to a study by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia VA Center for Health Equity...
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    Paula Deen Finally Admits She Has To Make Healthier Food To Sell Diabetes Drugs

    Paula Deen announced new plans to lighten up her recipes, in what seems like an unspoken admission that critics are right to be outraged by her promotion of diabetes drugs and embarrassingly fat- and sugar-heavy foods. She says she plans to remain true to herself (read: she's not going to teach...
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