Current news and research articles about diabetes
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Study: Telephone-Based Diabetes Management Could Save $3M
cardiovascularbusiness.com
09 July 2010
For high risk Medicare Advantage patients with diabetes and coronary artery disease (CAD), use of a telephone-based disease management program has shown a decline in the number of inpatient hospital admissions and overall hospital costs, according to a study presented June 21 at the 92nd annual Endocrine Society meeting in San Diego.
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Inactivity ‘No Contributor’ to Childhood Obesity Epidemic, New Report Suggests
ScienceDaily.com
08 July 2010
A new report from the EarlyBird Diabetes Study suggests that physical activity has little if any role to play in the obesity epidemic among children. Obesity is the key factor behind diabetes, heart disease and some cancers.
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EVMS Researchers Examine Underlying Dangers of Belly Fat
DailyPress.com
06 July 2010
Excess belly fat has been linked in recent years to increasing the risk of diabetes and heart disease, and Eastern Virginia Medical School researchers are looking into why.
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Low Vitamin D Levels Linked to Poor Blood Sugar Control in Type 2 Diabetes
naturalnews.com
30 June 2010
According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), almost 11 percent of Americans age 20 or older have diabetes. And the most common form of this disease, type 2 diabetes, has reached epidemic proportions. Now scientists have found a link between vitamin D deficiency and the inability of many patients with this kind of diabetes to keep their blood sugar under control.
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