Statistics Of Diabetes
Diabetes in children in the US
The journal Diabetes Care has just published a discussion of results from the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study, titled The Many Faces of Diabetes in AmericanYouth: Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes in Five Race and Ethnic Populations. It's a series of articles, one for each race/ethnic group.
The authors describe the study's objective as "to describe childhood diabetes [in children and teenagers less than age 20] as it occurs among the five major race and ethnic groups in the U.S." They evaluated...
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Expert & Community Posts
Half of diabetics have some form of arthritis
By Christine Miller , Health Expert...which shows that about one half of all adults with diabetes also have some form of arthritis. ... Read more »
Glargine (Lantus) and Cancer: Is There a Relationship to Type 1 Diabetes?
By Dr. Fran Cogen , Health Expert...on this site, mostly by bloggers discussing type 2 diabetes. What do these research findings... Read more »
Those Misleading Reports
By Gretchen Becker , Health Expert...really going on. An example more relevant to diabetes is a study comparing colon cancer... Read more »
Types of Diabetes: are there more than two?
By Dr. Bill Quick , Health Expert...recently received an e-mail inquiring about "type 3 diabetes." The writer stated "It's very... Read more »
The huge burden of diabetes - and the rest of the story
By Dr. Bill Quick , Health ExpertThe NIH has just released a press release about diabetes, New Survey Results Show Huge Burden of... Read more »
Health Guide
What do I need to know about diabetes?"
Diabetes is called a disorder of metabolism. More simply put, diabetes keeps your body from properly utilizing the sugar obtained from food. Your body changes most of the food you eat into a form of... Read more »Link Between Diabetes and Alzheimer's Deepens
Monday's New York Times article Link Between Diabetes and Alzheimer's Deepens provides alarming statistics indicating that increases in diabetes may contribute to the rising toll from Alzheimer's.... Read more »Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
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Pre-diabetes is a health condition that carries no symptoms. Commonly referred to as "impaired glucose tolerance," approximately 54 million people in the United States twenty years and... Read more »Stanford University Seeks Help in Patient Study
Self-Management@Stanford Healthier Living with Diabetes is a workshop and study given on the Internet. Researchers at Stanford University are currently recruiting participants with type 2 diabetes... Read more »Images
Medications
...high blood sugar. It is used in patients with type 2 diabetes (non-insulin-dependent diabetes).... Read more »
...(ex-EN-a-tide) Uses Exenatide is used along with other oral diabetes medications (e.g.,... Read more »
...to control high blood sugar in people with type 2 diabetes (non-insulin-dependent diabetes).... Read more »
...control high blood sugar in patients with type 2 diabetes (non-insulin-dependent diabetes). It... Read more »
...control high blood sugar in patients with type 2 diabetes (non-insulin-dependent diabetes).... Read more »
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Predicting Type 1 Diabetes Better
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November 12, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Low-dose aspirin has been recommended as a primary prevention strategy for patients with an increased cardiovascular risk, but... Read summary »
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