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(1) Having psoriasis may double your risk for metabolic syndrome - a recent observational study found that metabolic syndrome was twice as likely to occur in patients that have psoriasis, when compared to patients who do not have this debilitating skin condition. So of the 6.6 million adults, ages 20 - 59 in the US currently diagnosed with... Read moreChevron
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Obesity & Pre-Diabetes: Tool Assessing High Risk of Fasting Glucose Impairment

The problem with pre-diabetes and even diabetes is that very often the person can have it and not know it.  Of course if you are overweight - we might suspect it - but frankly, not every person who is overweight gets diabetes.  So we need better ways to identify these patients so that we can intervene with strategies that that can... Read moreChevron
posted 12/15/2008, comments (0)|
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Obesity and Diabetes: Linked Diseases Require Healthy Lifestyle to Avoid

November is Diabetes Awareness Month and though we constantly talk about obesity and diabetes, there seems to be a disconnect for many people.  If you are obese, you put yourself at risk for diabetes because you become insulin resistant, meaning that no matter how hard your pancreas tries to put out insulin, to bring down your blood sugar, it... Read moreChevron
posted 11/08/2008, comments (0)|
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Three Stages of Weight Loss & Maintenance, Overweight Pre-Diabetes in Children

Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the US today.  So it is alarming to see that the overweight children in this group lean to what is called persistent pre-diabetes.  We say someone has pre-diabetes when their fasting blood sugar falls between 100 and 120 - higher than normal but not high enough to qualify for a formal... Read moreChevron
posted 08/27/2008, comments (0)|
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