Sentences with phrase «diabetic women compared»

A recent study reports sex differences in intramyocardial glucose metabolism, assessed by positron emission tomography scans, with reduced intramyocardial glucose kinetics (ie, fractional glucose uptake and metabolism) in diabetic women compared with men.

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Compared with newborns of non-diabetic women, children of diabetic mothers with poorly controlled glycaemia show neurophysiological impairment and have a higher risk for metabolic syndrome, obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus in later life.»

Further aspects, which could partly explain higher cardiovascular risk for women with T2DM compared with diabetic men, were described in a cross-sectional study, which documented in vitro sex differences in fibrin structure function (288).

Since high levels of homocysteine are associated with an increased risk for atherosclerosis, diabetic heart disease, heart attack, and stroke, it's a good idea to be sure that your diet contains plenty of vitamin B12 to help keep homocysteine levels low (homocysteine is also associated with osteoporosis, and a recent study found that osteoporosis occurred more frequently among women whose vitamin B12 status was deficient or marginal compared with those who had normal B12 status.)