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Study Shows Diabetes Medication Can Reduce Atherosclerosis

​COLUMBUS, Ohio – Researchers at The Ohio State University Medical Center have shown in lab tests that a new type of diabetes medication can not only lower blood sugar, it can also improve cardiovascular disease, a frequent complication for those living with type 2 diabetes.
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Poor sleep linked to increased health, behavior problems in young diabetics

Lighter sleep, breathing problems found in youths with Type 1 diabetes ...
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Early menarche can increase the risk of diabetes

Neuherberg - The younger girls are at the onset of menstruation, the greater their risk of developing prediabetes or diabetes in the course of their lives. This is the conclusion reached by scientists of the Helmholtz Zentrum München based on the analysis of data obtained from the KORA cohort. Following the advance online publication of the new risk factor in the specialist journal Diabetologia, the researchers hope that they will be able in future to find better ways to prevent the disease....
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Innovative Hebrew University research approach successfully maps susceptibility to type 2 diabetes

Research carried out at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has provided the first proof of molecular risk factors leading to type 2 diabetes, providing an “early warning” sign that could lead to new approaches to treating this and other human disease conditions. ...
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New sugar a treat for diabetes treatment

Researchers from The Australian National University have discovered a new treatment for Type-1 diabetes – an autoimmune disease which currently affects some 130,000 Australians....
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Type 2 Diabetes Patients May Need Increased Daily Intake of Vitamin B12, Study Says

ATLANTA – According to a study in the December online edition of Diabetes Care, the current recommended daily allowance for vitamin B12 is too low for people taking metformin, an oral drug used to treat diabetes....
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Social norms for obesity learned in childhood

Newcastle University research studying siblings has revealed that childhood experience and genes may set your weight rather than social networks later in life. ...
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Waist circumference seems related to children's metabolic risk

-HOUSTON - Waist circumference and physical activity, in addition to body mass index (BMI), play an important role in cardiovascular and diabetes risk factors in children, according to researchers at the USDA Agriculture Research Service Children's Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital in a study that appears in the current issue of Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders....
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USC Scientists Find Missing Link in Regulation of Glucose

By Robert Perkins - A team led by USC neuroscientist Alan Watts identified for the first time a biochemical signal that helps regulate the amount of glucose in the blood....
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Insulin signaling is distorted in pancreases of type 2 diabetics

Study is first to discover abnormal signals that harm insulin-making cells ...
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