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Tuesday, February 09, 2010
| Doctors Miss Major Cause of Infertility and Obesity |
| Women often misdiagnosed after weight gain from hormonal disorder. |
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| Diabetes Patients Rank Health Concerns Differently Than Their Doctors |
| About one-third of doctors and their patients with diabetes do not see eye to eye on the most important health conditions to manage. |
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| Diabetes Medication May Help Decrease BMI in Obese Adolescents |
| Metformin XR appears to cause a small but significant decrease in body mass index (BMI) in non-diabetic obese adolescents when combined with a lifestyle intervention program. |
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| Severe Complications of Diabetes Higher in Depressed Patients |
| Depression raises risks of advanced and severe complications from diabetes, including kidney failure, blindness, heart attack and stroke. |
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| Most Parents Don't Realize Their 4- or 5-Year-Olds are Overweight or Obese |
| Half of the mothers who took part in a study thought that their obese four or five year-old was normal weight, as did 39 per cent of the fathers. |
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| Early Artificial Pancreas Trials Show Benefits for Kids, Teenagers with Diabetes |
| Researchers showed that using a first-generation artificial pancreas system overnight can lower the risk of low blood sugar emergencies while sleeping, and at the same time improve diabetes control. |
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| Poorer Diabetics Receive Worse Care Than Other in Countries with Universal Health Coverage |
| People with lower socioeconomic status and those belonging to ethnic minority groups receive worse health care in the treatment of diabetes than the rest of patients in the world's most developed countries. |
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| Childhood Metabolic Measurements May Predict Diabetes Development Years Later |
| A child's blood pressure, body mass index, blood glucose level and other laboratory tests and simple office measures may predict the risk of developing type 2 diabetes nine and 26 years later. |
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| Newly Identified Genes Influence Insulin and Glucose Regulation, 5 variants raise type 2 diabetes risk |
| Researchers found 13 new genetic variants that influence blood glucose regulation, insulin resistance, and the function of insulin-secreting beta cells in populations of European descent. Five of the variants increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. |
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| Diabetic Eye Disease More Severe in African-Americans Who Consume More Calories, Sodium |
| High intakes of calories and sodium appear to be associated with the progression of retinal disease among African American patients with diabetes. |
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| Analysis of New Data Confirms Bisphenol A Link to Diseases Like Diabetes |
| Researchers have found more evidence for a link between Bisphenol A exposure (BPA, a chemical commonly used in plastic food containers) and cardiovascular disease and diabetes. |
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