Sentences with phrase «about diabetes risk»

(Of course he had to base that on a questionable assertion about diabetes risk, since there's literally no evidence to support a finding that white rice in and of itself increases cancer risk — in fact the opposite seems to be the case.)

He developed an outreach program to educate the South Asian community about diabetes risk and preventive measures during a recent Bridging the Gaps Community Health Internship Program sponsored by the School of Public Health at the Shri Krishna Nidhi Foundation, an organization based in Hillsborough that promotes wellness among New Jersey's South Asian population.

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This year, the United Nations is helping to raise awareness about this superfood because pulses are loaded with protein, fiber, vitamins, and minerals and have been shown to lower the risk of heart disease, diabetes, lower blood pressure and cholesterol, and help with weight loss.

In this episode, you'll learn about what it is, if you're at risk, the screening options, nutritional ketosis, why the conventional nutritional guidelines for gestational diabetes fail and how to eat to prevent and better control gestational diabetes.

Learn about the risks and ways to better manage your diabetes while pregnant.

Everyday we read or hear about unhealthy foods - foods like infant formula, processed / packaged industrially made infant foods, junk foods, foods with high levels of starch, transfats, highly processed foods, which increase our risk of getting cancer, heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, obesity, and other non-communicable diseases (NCDs).

While most parents have sugar on their radar because they've heard about the negative health effects of eating too much sugar, such as increased risk of obesity and diabetes, they may not be aware that many kids are reportedly getting an unhealthy amount of salt in their diets.

In either case, the risks are about the same — unmanaged chronic hypertension in pregnancy is linked to increased risk of gestational diabetes, placental abruption, preeclampsia, and intrauterine growth restriction.

Once you are here, we will have a more complete discussion about the risks of obesity and insulin resistance, including type 2 diabetes, heart diseases, inflammatory liver disease and high cholesterol.

Learn about managing GDM, its impact on your future health, and what you can do to lower your risk for type 2 diabetes after you've had GDM.

Almost every day another health research finding is made about whole grains, a serving of vegetables, two fruits per day, cashews, legumes, fish, or some other food, other than milk that is, and their connection to a reduced risk of heart disease, breast cancer, stroke, diabetes, or other disease.

So I suppose, considering what you and someone above said about the meter not catching stuff, my question would be (well two questions) why they follow up with someone who DOES have gestational diabetes by assigning a meter, and then whether, if the person was able to avoid huge insulin peaks by eating well and such that the meter showed them not going over their established (by the doctor that is) threshold, would that mean that they were effectively mitigating the risks?

If you had type I diabetes, you would not feel any regrets about taking insulin — and your doctor would be empathetic while your doctor told you how to manage and compensate for your health risks.

If possible, seek health care early — when you first think about trying to get pregnant — so your doctor can evaluate your risk of gestational diabetes as part of your overall childbearing wellness plan.

An average of at least 20g of nut consumption was also associated with a reduced risk of dying from respiratory disease by about a half, and diabetes by nearly 40 percent, although the researchers note that there is less data about these diseases in relation to nut consumption.

Using a United Kingdom database, they surveyed general practitioners about BSA affected by psoriasis and looked at data on 8,124 adults with psoriasis and 76,599 adults without psoriasis over the course of four years, and they adjusted the samples to account for any differences in age, sex, and body mass index and other diabetes risk factors.

Dr. Dasgupta and colleagues hope their findings will raise awareness about the potential long - term risks associated with gestational diabetes.

By not smoking and staying physically active, such as walking briskly for 30 minutes a day, Hispanics can reduce their risk for these chronic diseases and others such as diabetes,» said CDC Director Tom Frieden, M.D., M.P.H. «Health professionals can help Hispanics protect their health by learning about their specific risk factors and addressing barriers to care.»

Typically, a 50 - year - old person with Type 2 diabetes without any of the risk factors has kidney function of about 60 percent and is likely to lose renal function at around 1.9 to 2 percent annually, says Thakar.

M. Dominique Ashen, Ph.D., C.R.N.P., a nurse practitioner in the Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease at Johns Hopkins and another study leader, says that a traditional risk assessment for cardiovascular disease involves checking blood pressure, cholesterol levels and weight; evaluating for diabetes; taking a family history; calculating the 10 - year risk of having a cardiovascular event; and asking about lifestyle factors such as smoking, diet and exercise.

«We spend a lot of time thinking about traditional risk factors for stroke such as high blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes and smoking — but our data underscore the possibility that everyday air pollution may also pose a significant stroke risk,» said senior investigator Jeffrey S. Berger, MD, an assistant professor in NYU Langone Medical Center in the Department of Medicine, Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology.

«For several years there has been controversy among scientists about whether vitamin D lowers the risk of developing of islet autoimmunity and type 1 diabetes,» said Dr. Norris.

Little has been known about the ways in which many diabetes genes work, but a study published in the journal Cell sheds light on a genetic risk component of type 1 diabetes and a new approach for keeping beta cells strong.

Similarly, a study published in 2003 by Harvard researchers in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) found that each 2 - hour increment of daily television watching raised people's risk of obesity by about 25 percent and their risk of diabetes by 15 percent.

After adjusting the data for age, sex, race, education, smoking, alcohol use, blood pressure, diabetes, high blood pressure medication, cholesterol levels, statin use and body mass index, the researchers found that those people who met both the recommended activity levels and had vitamin D levels above 20 nanograms per milliliter experienced about a 23 percent less chance of having an adverse cardiovascular event than those people with poor physical activity who were deficient for vitamin D. On the other hand, people who had adequate exercise but were vitamin D deficient didn't have a reduced risk of an adverse event.

The authors and editorialist express grave concerns that there will be many needless premature deaths as well as preventable heart attacks and strokes if patients who would clearly benefit from statins are not prescribed the drug, refuse to take the drug, or stop using the drug because of ill - advised adverse publicity about benefits and risks, which may include misplaced concerns about the possible but unproven small risk of diabetes.

Researchers led by Dr. Sirimon Reutrakul, associate professor of endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism in the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, wanted to determine if morning or evening preference among people with Type 2 diabetes was associated with an increased risk for higher BMI and if so, what specific factors about evening preference contributed to the increased risk.

They don't think about the consequences, the increased blood pressure and risk of stroke, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer.

Future tests might provide information about the risk of cardiovascular disease and type II diabetes.

The study looked at a way to substitute animal - based saturated fats for plant - based unsaturated fats in muffins made for patients with the metabolic syndrome, a group of risk factors that affect about a third of adults in the United States, increasing their chance of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.

«But when I told them about their risk for diabetes, I sensed some indifference.»

«We can't start talking about improved treatments for Maya because diabetes is a very complex disease, involving lots of yet unknown risk factors, says Teresa Tusié Luna, a human geneticist who studies diabetes at the Salvador Zubirán National Institute of Health Sciences and Nutrition in Mexico City.

Examining genome sequence information for more than 250,000 people, the researchers first uncovered 16 new diabetes genetic risk factors, and one new CHD genetic risk factor; hence providing novel insights about the mechanisms of the two diseases.

Coffee and tea consumption has been associated with a lower type 2 diabetes risk but little is known about how changes in coffee and tea consumption influence subsequent type 2 diabetes risk.

My results contain clues about what makes me genetically different from other people, such as blue versus brown eyes or a higher risk of getting diabetes or heart disease.

Last year, Nissen grew suspicious about possible health risks associated with GlaxoSmithKline's top - selling diabetes drug, Avandia.

Newswise — About 20 - 25 percent of adults have the metabolic syndrome and have increased risk of developing both cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.

It is estimated that about 140,000 people in Canada and the U.S. have such high - risk type 1 diabetes.

«Diabetes raises the risk about twofold for Alzheimer's disease,» says senior author, Gail Musen, Ph.D., Assistant Investigator in the Section on Clinical, Behavioral, and Outcomes Research at Joslin Diabetes Center.

About 1 in 3 adult Americans, or 72 million people in this country, are obese, and all face higher risks of heart problems, cancer and diabetes, as well as cognitive problems.

They calculated genetic scores from over 30 genes for more than 3, 000 children with no family history of diabetes Read more about Predicting bubs» diabetes risk using their genes - Scimex

It is estimated that about 140,000 people in United States and Canada have high - risk type 1 diabetes.

Even short - term sleep restriction, with four or five hours of sleep per night, can increase the risk of developing diabetes by about 16 percent — comparable to the increase in risk caused by obesity.

Genetic data combined with information on gene expression and epigenomics in relevant tissues, and clinical information, can provide clues about the effects of genetic changes within an individual's genome that increase or decrease one's risk of developing type 2 diabetes and its complications, including heart and kidney disease.

After accounting for differences in age, pre-pregnancy body size, and other risk factors, the researchers estimated that women who exclusively breastfed or mostly breastfed were about half as likely to develop type 2 diabetes as those who didn't breastfeed.

She spoke about the importance of obtaining a family health history, gave pointers for talking with family about health and disease, and what family health history can tell you about risk for common disease (diabetes, hypertension, heart disease).

It is estimated that about 140,000 people in Canada and the US have such high - risk type 1 diabetes.

«Although it is known that statins do increase the risk of diabetes, the best available evidence about the size of this excess risk comes from randomised trials, which have suggested a much smaller risk than was found in this study.

There is also another positive in that doctors are more regularly checking for risk of diabetes in those about to start statins and, in this way, we are picking up more people at elevated diabetes risk who can gain considerably from more targeted lifestyle interventions to mitigate such risks.»

Presenting results as hazard ratios or relative risks always makes effects look large — «a 30 per cent heightened risk of developing type 2 diabetes» sounds like a big effect but based on figure 2 it looks like statins may be associated with an increase in the annual rate of new diabetes from about 6 per 100 people to approximately 8 per 100 people over a 10 year period.