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Heart Disease 'Will Kill 400,000 Americans in 2010'
Rising obesity rates are counteracting U.S.progress in cutting cholesterol, blood pressure, and smoking, and about 400,000 Americans will die of heart disease this year, experts say. Scientists with the University of Liverpool say that eating healthier...
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Eye Exams Can Give Early Diabetes Warnings
Eye exams can give an early warning of undiagnosed diabetes and warn doctors of the presence of diabetic retinopathy.Ophthalmologists can examine the retina and detect areas of bleeding outside of the eye's blood vessels, which may eventually cause blindness...
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Diabetes Patients Rank Health Concerns Differently Than Their Doctors, UM Survey Shows
About one-third of physicians and people with diabetes do not agree on which are the most important health conditions to manage, according to the results of a survey by the University of Michigan Medical School.Both groups frequently ranked diabetes and...
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American Diabetes Association Announces Kansas City, Missouri Native Amy Johnson as 2010 National Youth Advoca
Christine Feheley cfeheley@diabetes.org 703-253-4374 The American Diabetes Association announced that Amy Johnson, 17, of Kansas City, Missouri, will be the Associations 2010 National Youth Advocate.Johnson was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when she was 12...
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Whole Grain Intake Prevents Diabetes, Heart Diseases, and Excess Weight Gain
lthough national guidelines recommend three daily servings of whole grains to prevent type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, and excess weight gain, survey data shows that few adolescents and young adults follow them.Researchers found that young people...
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One in Five Hospital Patients Has Diabetes
ore and more patients are being admitted to National Health Service (NHS) hospitals with diabetes-related illnesses, according to a new study on 200 NHS hospitals.Lack of exercise, poor diet, smoking, and alcohol abuse could be 'mushrooming' the U.K.
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Improve Your Health For Free?
Stop Diabetes and Its Complications by Attending American Diabetes Association EXPO Angela Murray amurray@diabetes.org 703-549-1500 ext.3425 In an age of soaring health care costs and staggering diabetes prevalence, the American Diabetes Association...
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Diabetes Forecast Interviews Ballerina Zippora Karz about the Ultimate Balancing Act
Dayle Kern dkern@diabetes.org 703-549-1500 ext.2290 Having diabetes can feel like a balancing act among blood glucose (sugar) levels, food, exercise and the ways in which each of these elements affects day-to-day life. Add to this more than 12 hours of...
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Skipping Insulin Injections What are the Risk Factors?
Dayle Kern dkern@diabetes.org 703-549-1500 ext.2290 More than half of people with diabetes who take insulin injections to control their diabetes say they have intentionally skipped an injection, with one-fifth of them reporting that they do so sometimes or...
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Depression and Advanced Complications of Diabetes
EMAILby Elizabeth H.Lin, Carolyn M. Rutter, Wayne Katon Diabetes Care February 1, 2010 Major depression in patients with type 2 diabetes has been associated with an increased risk of microvascular and macrovascular complications over the previous five...
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