Sentences with phrase «diabetes than those with the lowest levels»

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Women with low levels of the sex hormone binding globulin were five times more likely to develop gestational diabetes than those with higher levels of the protein (February 2014).

Overweight women with low levels of the hormone adiponectin prior to pregnancy were nearly seven times more likely to develop gestational diabetes than normal weight women with high levels (August 2013).

«Our analysis of three large U.S. cohorts including persons in whom diabetes has been diagnosed shows those who were at target levels for HbA1c, blood pressure and LDL to have substantially lower risks for cardiovascular disease than persons with diabetes who were not at target levels for such factors,» Wong said.

People with higher blood levels of the protein were more likely to be frail, have diabetes and heart problems, and have a more difficult time recovering from surgery than people with lower levels of the protein.

Using that information, Whitaker's team determined that pre-pregnant women with high levels of fitness had a 21 percent lower risk of developing gestational diabetes than did those with lower fitness levels.

The finding builds on an earlier surprise from the Joslin Medalist Study program, which looks for clues on how some people live with type 1 diabetes for more than 50 years with unusually low levels of complications, says George King, M.D., Joslin's Chief Scientific Officer and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

A potential explanation for the secular trend may be that while improved treatment for cardiovascular risk factors or complicating diseases has reduced mortality in all weight classes, the effects may have been greater at higher BMI levels than at lower BMI levels.12 Because obesity is a causal risk factor for hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and dyslipidemia,15,19 - 22 obese individuals may have had a higher selective decrease in mortality.18 Indirect evidence of this effect is seen in the findings as the deaths occur at similar time periods in the 3 cohorts, but cohorts recruited at later periods have an increase in the BMI associated with the lowest mortality, possibly suggesting a period effect related to changes in clinical practice, such as improved treatments, or general public health status, such as decreased smoking or increased physical activity.

For instance, although none of the study participants had diabetes, people with higher pre-surgery levels of the hormone insulin had a lower long - term risk of heart attacks and strokes than people with lower insulin levels who also had surgery.

People with type - 2 diabetes are more likely than the general population to develop cardiovascular disease and have lower levels of heart - protective HDL cholesterol, the authors note.

This, now combined with the high carbohydrate intake leads to excess diabetes even with obesity levels far lower than the United States.

The risk of having low testosterone levels is significantly higher in men with hypertension (RR 1.84), hyperlipidemia (RR 1.47), diabetes (RR 2.09), obesity (RR 2.38) and asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (RR 1.40) than in men without these conditions.

According to the Times, a 2009 Old Dominion University study published in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, found that a 20 - minute walk about 15 minutes after dinner «led to lower post-meal blood sugar levels in people with Type 2 diabetes than either a walk before dinner or no walking at all.»

Studies show that people with type 2 diabetes have lower blood levels of chromium than those without the disease.

This ecological study suggests that countries with a high availability of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS)-- defined as more than 0.5 kg per person per year — may have higher diabetes levels than those defined as having low HFCS availability.

Essentially, individuals were more at risk of diabetes if they were thin with high blood - levels of POPs than if they were overweight with low levels of POPs.