Few days back the Diabetes Council Australia has released the data, which has stated that the rates of diabetics are increasing in New South Wales by leaps and bound, in specific the rates are much more higher in some specific regions such as Sydney West and the State’s Coastal Regions. Approximate figure has stated only Read more
The Medscape Medical News reported that higher plasma levels of vitamin D are associated with lower risk of incident diabetes among those people who are at a high risk of this disease. In this regard G. Pittas, existing head of the research team headed by Anastassious of Boston’s Tufts New England Medical Center, analyzed the Read more
Data collected after analyzing samples from European Diabetes Prevention Study (EDIPS) have shown that the PreDx Diabetes Risk Score (DRS) is significantly lowered by lifestyle intervention. This indicates that the person has low risks of developing diabetes in the future. The same data has also shown that people with very high DRS, i.e. those at Read more
Contrary to general perception, researches have now revealed that babies that are born big need not necessarily be healthy. They are at a higher risk of facing health problems like diabetes and obesity. A majority of babies that are born overweight end up being obese in their youth. Further, babies who put on abnormal weight Read more
Patients suffering from the silent killer disease need to maintain their eating habits which plays an important role to keep the culprit disease at bay. The disease stops producing or storing glucose in your body which results in the need of artificial intake of insulin. It was normally diagnosed in people over 40 but now Read more
Diabetes versus Stroke According to latest research, people who are diabetic and have had a stroke need to be extra careful because they are at higher risk of a second and fatal stroke. The risk of heart attacks increase as well. The study was carried out by a team of scientists in Duke University Medical Read more
GROWTH HORMONE You will also be familiar with the disease caused by lack of insulin – diabetes – and with the conditions caused by too much or too little hormone – dwarfism and gigantism. Growth during the first eight to ten months of life is largely controlled by food intake, but growth hormone then becomes Read more