Diabetes News

HealthDay - THURSDAY, Nov. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Black children with diabetes face a death rate twice as high as that for white children, new U.S. government research shows.

Reuters - More Chinese children are becoming overweight and prone to diet-related diseases like diabetes due to unhealthy lifestyles and high stress linked to their studies, state media reported on Thursday, citing a top health official.

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Nov. 14 (HealthDay News) -- The development of type 2 diabetes in adults can be predicted in childhood, according to a U.S. study that's followed a group of 814 children and adults since 1973.

AFP - Scientists on Wednesday said they had uncovered two more genetic links to juvenile diabetes as the United Nations backed World Diabetes Day to place a spotlight on this fast-growing form of the disease.

Reuters - The number of U.S. girls taking diabetes drugs more than doubled between 2002 and 2005, almost certainly because of rising obesity, researchers reported on Wednesday.

HealthDay - THURSDAY, Nov. 1 (HealthDay News) -- New information about a protein in the pancreas may help in efforts to determine how diabetes develops during pregnancy, say Stanford University Medical Center researchers.

(HealthDay News) - Diabetics are prone to foot problems that can be serious enough to require amputation.

Worldwide, 40 percent of men and 30 percent of women are now overweight, and 24 percent of men and 27 percent of women are obese, say researchers who looked at data from 63 countries.

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) - Type 2 diabetes is a disease in which the body doesn't properly process the hormone insulin, which regulates blood sugar. This form of diabetes is controlled with medication, proper diet and exercise, and maintaining a healthy body weight, and normal blood pressure and cholesterol levels.

(HealthDay News) - Type 2 diabetes is a disease in which the body doesn't properly process the hormone insulin, which regulates blood sugar. This form of diabetes is controlled with medication, proper diet and exercise, and maintaining a healthy body weight, and normal blood pressure and cholesterol levels.

Type 1 diabetes, sometimes called juvenile diabetes, affects the amount of insulin produced by the pancreas. Insulin is a hormone that regulates blood sugar levels.

Along with taboo topics such as politics and religion, many Americans are reluctant to discuss managing a chronic illness with family or friends, according to a new survey of more than 1,000 adults.

Compared to women with optimal blood pressure, those with high blood pressure are up to three times more likely to develop type 2 diabetes, a U.S. study finds.

Reuters - In patients with type 2 diabetes, the adult on-set variety, depressive symptoms -- even if they do not meet criteria for major depressive disorder -- is associated with poor adherence to self-care, according to results of a study published in Diabetes Care.

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The largest study ever of the impact of environment and genes on the health of American children will be directed from 22 new centers across the United States, organizers said in a special news conference held Thursday.

Reuters - A Swedish study indicates that the fertility of women with type 1 diabetes was reduced prior to 1985, but since then is its begun to normalize, if diabetic complications were avoided.

Obesity is a big factor driving soaring rates of chronic disease in the United States, with many more Americans chronically ill than their European counterparts, a new study finds.

Chinese researchers have outlined the molecular chain of activity that makes resveratrol, a chemical found in the skin of red grapes and in red wine, a promising candidate for treatment of diabetes and other conditions.

Black Americans and Latinos with diabetes who take drugs to control their disease are less likely to have their blood sugar under control than whites, a new study finds.