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Caesarean babies have a 20% higher risk of developing type1 diabetes, a new study suggests.

Posted: August 26th 2008 By editor1       under: Child health, Diabetes    Tags: , , , , , ,
According to a report published in PubMed journal, babies who born under caesarean section have a 20% higher risk of getting type 1diabetes than the babies born naturally.

Type1 diabetes can start in early childhood and it is on rise in many European countries because of some unknown factors.

The researchers from Queen’s University Belfast worked on 20 previous studies and suggested that contact with hospital bacteria instead of material bacteria in delivery may be the real culprit.

Diabetes linked to trace arsenic in water

Posted: August 21st 2008 By editor1       under: Cancer, Diabetes    Tags: , , , , , , , ,
CHICAGO – Study findings in the Journal of American Medical Association have shed new light on the link between arsenic and Type 2 diabetes.  The study is the first to link low-level arsenic exposure, possibly from drinking water, with Type 2 diabetes.

The study was based on medical tests of 788 adults’ and revealed a fourfold increase in risk of diabetes in people with low levels of arsenic.  As seafood is a source for high concentration of organic arsenic, researchers adjusted findings of seafood arsenic and still found that those who had Type 2 diabetes had 26% higher arsenic levels than those who did not have the disease.

Results of Long-Lasting Research in Middle-Aged-Mice

Posted: July 4th 2008 By Admin       under: Diabetes    Tags:
Type 2 DiabetesSirtris, a GlaxoSmithKline company stressed upon finding out and formulating tiny molecule drugs in order to treat diseases of aged people called “Type 2 Diabetes”.  The study showed that middle aged mice were treated with “Resveratorl” improved the overall health of mice including bones betterment, decrease in cataracts and cardiovascular dysfunction and it did also improve the balance and motor coordinator among middle aged mice.

The co-author of research, David Sinclair, Ph.D, a Sirtris Co-Founder and Harvard Medical School Associate Professor of Pathology noted, “We would like to settle on resveratrol which leads towards many health betterments like caloric, dietary restraints and its control on mice.

8 percent U.S. population suffering from diabetes, CDC estimates show

Posted: June 25th 2008 By Admin       under: Diabetes, Health news    Tags: ,
U.S.diabetesAccording to the new estimates of the U.S. government, almost 24 million people in the U.S. have become diabetic and there is an increase of more than three million during two years.

The estimates of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that around 8% U.S. population is suffering from diabetes and most of them have type-2 diabetes that is related to obesity, lack of activity and poor diets.

The estimates have been based on 2007 data that also reveal pre-diabetes in more than 57 million people. Pre-diabetes is a condition that tells about higher risk for diabetes in the people and more than 25% people don’t know about it that they are the sufferer.

The CDC found that during 2007, more than 25 percent people who had diabetes were of 60 years and older.

Multiple Impacts of Diabetes

Posted: June 10th 2008 By Admin       under: Diabetes    Tags: , ,
Diabetes is one of the scrolling diseases in the world which has killed millions of people. The doctors said that the ignorance of the people is the biggest cause of diabetes which led to sudden deaths.

People are not looking after their health. They became careless in their lifestyles such as people are used to binge eating. They are taking oily and spicy foodstuffs such as sweets, mutton curry, hot chilly, creams, butter, cheese and red meat. This has led them into various and different kinds of diseases.

The diseases are the high cholesterol, blood pressure, diabetes, coronary problems, breath and heart beating, chest ache, eye problems, and heave obesity, etc. Last but not the least is the depression which is prevailing all around the world at a very alarming rate.

Trial of type-2 diabetes care package for UK based Asians shows positive results

Posted: May 26th 2008 By Admin       under: Diabetes, Health news    Tags: ,
diabetes care packageSpecial diabetes care package

A special diabetes care package has been offered to some inhabitants of South Asian ethnic origin in U.K. However, the researchers suggest, in a Diabetes Special Issue of The Lancet, strict targets in usual practice and added measures to motivate patients to decrease the effect of diabetes on these groups of the population.

Risk of Cardiovascular and renal problems

Patients of Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and other South Asian origin with type-2 diabetes (Also known as adult’s beginning diabetes) are not less than a management challenge for the doctors in UK. If compared to white Europeans, these patients of South Asian origin have 4 to 6 time higher risks to have type2 diabetes. Further, beginning of the disease in South Asians use to occur ten year earlier than in the white people. Similarly, the risk of cardiovascular and renal problems is higher in the people of South Asian origin and the death rate is around 50 percent higher. Different complications in management are considered because of cultural, social deprivation and cultural issues.

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