Sentences with phrase «diabetes rates for»

It is not surprising that obesity and diabetes rates for those living in these areas are considerable higher than other areas.

For example, the diabetes rate for black people is almost twice as high as for whites, and blacks have higher rates of cancer and heart disease.

Not exact matches

«The [death] rate increased 0.9 % for heart disease, 2.7 % for chronic lower respiratory diseases, 6.7 % for unintentional injuries, 3.0 % for stroke, 15.7 % for Alzheimer's disease, 1.9 % for diabetes, 1.5 % for kidney disease, and 2.3 % for suicide.

The best, purest foods are just out of reach for many who live in cities, and the result is rising obesity and diabetes rates.

Oats are great for stabilizing your blood sugar level as a result of the combination of high fiber and complex carbohydrates which slows down the rate at which this grain is converted to simple sugars thereby preventing blood sugar spikes and reducing the risk of developing diabetes

According to Baleka, the average life expectancy for a long - haul truck driver in the U.S. is 61 to 64 years (10 to 15 years less than the average American male); truck drivers have the highest rate of obesity of any occupation in the U.S. (86 % are overweight, 69 % are obese); they have one of the highest rates of metabolic syndrome, a group of risk factors for heart disease and diabetes; in some years they have had the highest number of fatalities of any occupation, making trucking one of the most dangerous and unhealthy occupations in the U.S.

And formula feeding is associated with higher rates of chronic morbidity like obesity, diabetes, allergies, and cancers (if I take their word for it).

For babies, it can protect against infections and reduce the rates of later health problems including diabetes, obesity, and asthma.

When infants are not optimally breastfed they are at risk for increased illness such as higher rates of gastrointestinal and respiratory infections, allergies, cancer, obesity, cardiovascular disease and diabetes and even death.

With the rising rates of childhood obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, exclusive breastfeeding for six months provides a no - cost way to protect the health of infants and their mothers and reduce the risk of these chronic diseases.

For the infant, human milk reduces the rates of infection, allergies, obesity, diabetes, leukemia, lymphoma, SIDS, and infant mortality2.

I made a quick search for «maternal death rate increase» Everything I found points to the same thing: Maternal death rate increased in the USA because of the increasing rates of obesity, diabetes and hypertension and other kind of risk factors (Which raises the risk of pregnancy).

Known for years as one of the city's «food deserts,» where access to fresh fruits and vegetables are scarce, the South Bronx has some of the highest diabetes and obesity rates in the city, according to the Department of Health.

«These findings build on previous studies into disproportionate rates of diabetes prevalence and hold important clues for efforts aimed at preventing diabetes and better managing the disease,» said Jane Bolin, JD, PhD, BSN, co-researcher and director of the Southwest Rural Health Research Center at Texas A&M.

The authors say that the well - established safety profile of metformin for diabetes should hopefully encourage clinicians to translate these findings into clinical trials to improve sustained abstinence rates in ex-smokers.

«The type of inflammation seen in psoriasis is known to promote insulin resistance, and psoriasis and diabetes share similar genetic mutations suggesting a biological basis for the connection between the two conditions we found in our study,» said the study's senior author Joel M. Gelfand, MD MSCE, a professor of Dermatology and Epidemiology at Penn. «We know psoriasis is linked to higher rates of diabetes, but this is the first study to specifically examine how the severity of the disease affects a patient's risk.»

The analysis provides estimates of counts, rates and trends measured against the American Heart Association metric for cardiovascular health for hypertension, hyperlipidemia, obesity, abnormal blood glucose level, and diabetes.

It is highly associated with obesity and diabetes, and is one of the reasons for concern over the increasing rates of both problems in the U.S. NASH can lead to cirrhosis and to hepatocellular carcinoma (liver cancer), so understanding its development is becoming more and more important.

The low - fat diet — what's recommended by the U.S. government and the American Heart Association — performed the worse, Ludwig added, because it decreased the metabolism rate and raised the risk for diabetes and metabolic syndrome.

Combining a new hydrogel material with a protein that boosts blood vessel growth could improve the success rate for transplanting insulin - producing islet cells into persons with type 1 diabetes.

Compared with the Maycoba population, the Arizona Pima obesity rate was 10 times greater among the men, and three times for the women; diabetes was five and a half times higher among the tribe in Arizona.

Hospitalization rates for a dozen «ambulatory care sensitive conditions» — conditions such as a urinary tract infection, diabetes, or high blood pressure, which are treatable with good access to a primary care physician — would have been expected to decline in Massachusetts if access to outpatient care had increased significantly after the state reform.

With the rate of diabetes increasing dramatically worldwide, many individuals will be at risk for vision loss from diabetic eye complications and DME is a major global health concern,» says Jennifer K. Sun, M.D., M.P.H., a member of the study research team and writing committee, and an Investigator in the Section on Vascular Biology, an ophthalmologist in Beetham Eye Institute at Joslin and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School.

Reducing obesity rates — through changing diets and increasing physical activity — is a key target for public health policy as it places individuals at greater risk for conditions such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Their estimates suggest that, in an optimistic scenario, where diabetes death rates and prevalence remain the same for each country, the annual cost of diabetes would increase to $ 35.3 billion (1.1 % GDP) in 2030.

The prevalence model, developed by RTI for the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, illustrates some of issues the nation will face as diabetes rates increase and Americans live longer.

In addition, studies have shown that the five - year mortality rate for older adults with olfactory dysfunction is higher than are rates for adults with heart failure, diabetes, or cancer.

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Reducing the high type 1 diabetes mortality rates will need additional expenditure on the care of patients with the disorder, many of the benefits from which might not be seen for up to 20 years.

Other risk factors for diabetes included AHI during rapid eye movement sleep and measures of the physiologic consequences of OSA, including oxygen desaturation, sleep deprivation and activation of the sympathetic nervous system, as indicated by a higher mean heart rate during sleep.

Physicians have recommended vitamin D supplements to their patients for a decade, with good reason: dozens of studies have shown a correlation between high intake of vitamin D — far higher than most people would get in a typical diet and from exposure to the sun — and lower rates of chronic diseases, such as cancer and type 1 diabetes.

For instance, African - Americans face an increased risk of problems such as diabetes, heart disease and stroke and an infant mortality rate twice that of whites.

Together they are believed to account for most of the minor differences between people: variations in hair or eye color, metabolic rate, and one's susceptibility to such diseases as diabetes and osteoporosis.

A new study by French and UK researchers published in a leading journal this week suggests that should no cure be found for dementia, then the biggest impact on reducing rates of this progressive brain destroying disease is likely to come from eliminating diabetes and depression and boosting education, as well as encouraging people to eat more fruit and vegetables.

From an epidemiologic perspective, preeclampsia is growing at a rate more rapid than diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer's disease, obesity, and chronic kidney disease — diseases for which substantial research and treatment funding have been allocated,» explained senior investigator Anupam B. Jena, MD, PhD, Ruth L. Newhouse Associate Professor, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.

Dr John Busby, lead author of the study, published in The British Journal of General Practice, said: «Admission rates for some of the conditions in our study, including alcoholism, schizophrenia and diabetes, were over three times higher in some practices than others.

Researchers have long theorized that blacks are at higher risk for developing Alzheimer's disease due to genetics and higher rates of diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular diseases in this population.

The question is how to turn such great discoveries into safe effective cures for people with diabetes — a process that has a high failure rate and takes years.

Obesity increases the likelihood of many life - threatening conditions, including diabetes, cancer and heart disease, so there's been plenty of speculation about what's to blame for these rampantly growing rates of obesity.

In these studies, the variant is associated with a poor response to treatment with sulfony lureas, while metformin was shown to be effective both for the treatment of diabetes and for reducing conversion rate from prediabetes to diabetes 5,6.

«This research shows that exposure to environmental toxins may be depressing the function of our circadian clock, the disruption of which is linked to increased rates of cancer, diabetes, obesity, heart disease, and depression,» said Jennifer Hurley, an assistant professor of biological sciences, a member of the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and senior author on this research.

Dr. King's research focuses on unearthing the causes of diabetic complications by exploring insulin actions on blood vessels, discovering factors and new treatments for diabetic complications, and understanding the reasons for the high rate of diabetes in Asian Americans.

Well, for one, the residents of the top five cities have significantly lower rates, on average, of a handful of diseases (from diabetes to high cholesterol to depression) compared to people living in cities with low scores.

Rates of diagnosed diabetes were higher for American Indians / Alaska Natives (15 percent), blacks (nearly 13 percent), and Hispanics 12 percent) than for Asians (8 percent) and whites (7.4 percent).

«It is reassuring that the rate of increase in diabetes cases has slowed, but we should not reduce our vigilance when it comes to optimizing metabolic health for Americans,» Sood said.

High blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, and other known — and treatable — risk factors for MCI and dementia tend to be more common in men, which may explain the higher rate of MCI, Shatz says.

• Whole Grains: Refined grains, often blamed for health crises like the rising rates of obesity and diabetes, shouldn't be confused with their more nutrient - dense whole grain cousins.

[pagebreak] Surprising disorders that can cause fatigue Your thyroids out of whack If you cant lose weight or have unexplained weight gain, drier skin than usual, a slowed heart rate, a change in your periods, or a feeling of being cold — along with fatigue — you may have hypothyroidism, says Francine Kaufman, MD, head of the Center for Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles.

Since refined grains can spike insulin levels and are a highly processed carbohydrate, our increased consumption may be partially to blame for the rising rates of diabetes and obesity (though of course other factors come into play here as well).

The researchers cautioned that the adverse events database from the FDA isn't the ideal solution for comparing adverse event rates in type 2 diabetes drugs, due to its known limitations, like reporting biases and incomplete data.