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Sweet Drinks May Make Sour Future
Sweetened beverages can increase the likelihood of developing type 2 diabetes. Those same drinks also cause the greatest increase in weight gain--a risk factor for type 2 diabetes as well. Read more about this research. If you have a taste for sweetened drinks and juices, then you may be pushing... Continue reading
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Slowing Insulin Resistance
Insulin resistance, or the body's inability to use the insulin it produces, often leads to diabetes. Researchers have found that in some cases, regularly taking vitamin K can slow the progression of insulin resistance and delay diabetes. The progression of insulin resistance in older non-diabetics can be slowed by regularly... Continue reading
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Aspirin Therapy Not As Effective in Type 2 Diabetes Cases
Aspirin therapy is recommended by the American Heart Association as a way to prevent heart attack and stroke. However, researchers have determined that among patients with type 2 diabetes, aspirin therapy may not be as effective in preventing heart attack or stroke. Low-dose aspirin did not appear to significantly reduce... Continue reading
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Cumulative Damage of Diabetes for Those Who Develop it in Middle Age
If you develop diabetes in middle age, you can expect different challenges resulting from diabetes than people who develop it closer to retirement age. The burden will be different. In a recent study, elderly persons who had been living with diabetes since middle-age were more likely to have retinopathy, reflecting... Continue reading
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Kidney Disease in Diabetes Predicted by Albuminuria
Here’s another vocabulary word to add, if you don’t know it already: Albuminuria. Albumin is a protein that your body makes and uses. It transports a number of other chemicals around through your blood stream. Albuminuria is the excess discharge of albumin in the urine. Albuminuria can be a sign... Continue reading
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Diabetics - Ask Your Doctor About ACE Inhibitors to Protect Your Kidneys
In diabetic patients with hypertension, ACE inhibitors reduce the risk of developing diabetes-related kidney disease, independent of their effect in lowering blood pressure, reports a study in the December Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. “Our results clearly show that an ACE inhibitor should always be used in patients... Continue reading
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