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Posts Tagged ‘Type II diabetes.’

Already identified 38 genes associated with type 2 diabetes, after the discovery of 12 more by an international consortium of scientists led by Professor Mark McCarthy of the University of Oxford.

To find these 12 new genes related to type 2 diabetes, which serve to detect early susceptibility to type 2 diabetes and to find new drugs, we compared the DNA of 8,000 people with type 2 diabetes with 40,000 people without the disease. Once found genetic variations, they were re-buy with 34,000 people with diabetes and more than 60,000 controls. Read the rest of this entry »

The sound of the sea in Salvador de Bahia is charming and invites two possible outcomes: thinking about anything or think about everything. In the second are those attending the Diabetes Summit Latin America, which began a few days ago and is expected as a great calling attention to the scourge of this chronic disease that affects only in Argentina two and a half million people.

Pierre Lefèbvre, director of the World Diabetes Foundation (WDF) is the great host of this series of meetings with doctors, epidemiologists and health experts from 34 countries. Flowing hair, his back to the sea that speaks, is categorical: “The status of diabetes in the world is worrying is like a tsunami, and the wave has not reached the top.” Interviewed by Clarín, Lefèbvre account the reasons for this development is not unexpected, but dangerous, especially for countries like ours, where eating habits and physical activity (two risk factors) are not the healthiest. Read the rest of this entry »

Western fast food has caused an increase diabetes in Southeast Asia, where most of the victims of burgers and pizzas are high-class trash, depending on the charge of a study published today in the Australian city of Sydney.

11% of men and 12% of Vietnamese women with type 2 diabetes without knowing it, which adds 4% of the population that it is diagnosed, as reported by the Medical Research Institute in a statement Garvan . Read the rest of this entry »

If you have diabetes, you are under strict orders from the doctor to lose weight. This is because weight loss is one of the best ways to manage the disease, especially type II diabetes. However, diabetes also creates some complications that mean we can not simply cut calories. It takes some easy tips to lose weight given our special circumstances.

As a diabetic, is at risk if the levels of insulin and sugar are not well balanced. Do not miss or skip even one meal because sugar levels fall dangerously low. This could lead to dizziness, at least, and in a coma in the worst cases. Read the rest of this entry »