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Women With Osteoporosis Suffer More If They Have Previously Broken a Bone, Say Scientists

August 18, 2010 Diabetes Research

Osteoporosis is more common in women who have fractured bones when they were younger — and they experience a similar loss in health-related quality of life as those with arthritis, lung disease, diabetes and other chronic diseases.

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Larger Waist Associated With Greater Risk Of Death

August 17, 2010 Cardiovascular Research

Individuals with a large waist circumference appear to have a greater risk of dying from any cause over a nine-year period, according to a report in the August 9/23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

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One High-Fat Diet, Two Different Outcomes: The Path To Obesity Becomes Clearer

August 10, 2010 Diabetes Research

Why is it that two people can consume the same high fat, high-calorie Western diet and one becomes obese and prone to diabetes while the other maintains a slim frame? This question has long baffled scientists, but a study by Yale School of Medicine researchers provides a simple explanation: weight is set before birth in the developing brain.

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Popular Diabetes Drugs Associated With Fractures In Type 2 Diabetic Patients, Study Finds

August 9, 2010 Diabetes Research

Postmenopausal women with diabetes taking thiazolidinediones (TZDS), including rosiglitazone and pioglitazone, may be at increased risk for fractures, according to a new study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM).

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Mystery Of Healthy Fat People: Why Some Obese People Go On To Become Diabetic While Others Do Not

July 30, 2010 Cardiovascular Research

It is common to find obese people — even morbidly obese people — who are healthier than their condition would normally allow. Working with subjects with a body mass index of about 56, a team of researchers in Spain and Cambridge investigated the inflammatory and insulin signalling pathways in the patients’ visceral adipose tissue and have published their findings in the Disease Knowledge Environment of the Biochemical Journal.

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Early Predictors Of Metabolic Syndrome In Healthy 7-9 Year-Olds Identified

July 28, 2010 Cardiovascular Research

Melinda Sothern, PhD, CEP, Professor of Public Health and Director of Health Promotion at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, will present evidence that supports relationships seen in adolescents between insulin sensitivity and fatty liver, belly fat, and total body fat and identifies additional potential early markers of insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome in healthy 7-9 year-old children, including fat in muscle cells, blood pressure, physical activity, and birth weight.

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Well-Defined Quantity Of Antioxidants In Diet Can Improve Insulin Resistance, Study Finds

June 23, 2010 Cardiovascular Research

A diet rich in natural antioxidants improves insulin sensitivity in insulin-resistant obese adults and enhances the effect of the insulin-sensitizing drug metformin, a preliminary study from Italy finds.

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Poor Control Of Diabetes May Be Linked To Low Vitamin D

June 23, 2010 Diabetes Research

Vitamin D deficiency is highly prevalent in patients with Type 2 diabetes and may be associated with poor blood sugar control, according to a new study.

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Fructose Sugar Makes Maturing Human Fat Cells Fatter, Less Insulin-Sensitive, Study Finds

June 23, 2010 Cardiovascular Research

Fructose, a sugar widely used in soft drinks and processed foods, often gets some of the blame for the widespread rise in obesity. Now a laboratory study has found that when fructose is present as children’s fat cells mature, it makes more of these cells mature into fat cells in belly fat and less able to respond to insulin in both belly fat and fat located below the skin.

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Berry Meals And Risk Factors Associated With Metabolic Syndrome

March 10, 2010 Diabetes Research

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is commonly associated with obesity, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia and type 2 diabetes, and can thus be regarded as the hepatic manifestation of metabolic syndrome. In this study we compared the effects of lifestyle intervention with…

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More Than 90 Percent of People With Gum Disease Are at Risk for Diabetes, Study Finds

December 15, 2009 Diabetes Research

An overwhelming majority of people who have periodontal (gum) disease are also at high risk for diabetes and should be screened for diabetes, a New York University nursing-dental research team has found. The researchers also determined that half of those at risk had seen a dentist in the previous year, concluded that dentists should consider…

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Pitt Study Finds Molecular Link Between Insulin Resistance And Inflammation

August 26, 2009 Diabetes Research

An exploration of the molecular links between insulin resistance and inflammation may have revealed a novel target for diabetes treatment, say scientists at the John G. Rangos Sr. Research Center, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC. Their findings were published earlier this month in the online version of Diabetes, one of the journals of the …

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