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Prediabetes is characterized by elevated blood sugar levels and a heightened risk of developing Type 2 diabetes.
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The National Institutes of Health financed study, published in Diabetes Care, highlight the importance of getting enough sleep in lowering one's chance of developing type 2 diabetes, which occurs when the body fails to effectively use a critical hormone, insulin, to maintain appropriate blood sugar levels.
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The study was conducted at UIC and enrolled 75 participants into three groups: those who followed the time-restricted eating rules, those who reduced calories and a control group. Participants' weight, waist circumference, blood sugar levels and other health indicators were measured over the course of six months.
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The latest cross-sectional study included 1,923 adults living in the community across 8 provinces in China
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The findings were broadly similar in analyses using EU data, with corresponding estimates being about 13, 9, or 5 years earlier death on average.
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Kombucha is a tea fermented with bacteria and yeasts and was consumed as early as 200 BC in China, but it did not become popular in the US until the 1990s
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In a study published in the scientific journal eLife, it was revealed that inherent genetic variations can cause certain individuals to accumulate waist fat while simultaneously offering protection against diabetes.
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The study also showed that 136 million Indians are pre-diabetic, 213 million people live with high cholesterol, 185 million suffer from high LDL cholesterol or bad cholesterol.
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Researchers have known that a lack of quality sleep can increase a person's risk of diabetes.
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Canagliflozin is a drug that controls blood sugar levels in people with type 2 diabetes, however researchers have found an unexpected role for the drug involving the human immune system
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The WHO stated that these sweeteners had undesirable effects like increased risk of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and mortality in adults.
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Type 2 diabetes is the world’s most prevalent chronic disease and often described as the silent killer. There are many drugs available for the disease yet patients are not able to maintain healthy levels of blood glucose.
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Strengths of the study are that it includes a large number of people from several European countries and validated, standard methods to diagnose cancer.
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To compare the potential benefits of whey protein, the same participants also spent a week drinking a control shot that contained no protein in order to measure the results against each other.
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The researchers of the study, to be presented at the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), said semaglutide reduces the future risk of diabetes by over 60 per cent in patients with obesity.
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The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi, researchers have unravelled the biochemical relationship between fatty liver disease and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM).
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London: People with Type 2 diabetes, heart disease or stroke have double the risk of developing dementia, finds a study. Type 2 diabetes, heart diseases (ischemic heart disease, heart failure or atrial fibrillation) and stroke, so-called cardiometabolic diseases, are some of the main risk factors for dementia. The presence of more than one cardiometabolic disease […]
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New York: Scientists have demonstrated that normal brain ageing is accelerated by approximately 26 per cent in people with progressive Type 2 diabetes compared with individuals without the disease, according to a study. There is already strong evidence linking Type 2 diabetes with cognitive decline, yet few patients currently undergo a comprehensive cognitive assessment as […]
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Hyderabad: A world-wide study of diverse populations has shed new light on how genes contribute to Type 2 diabetes. The study titled DIAMANTE (DIAbetes Meta-Analysis of Trans-Ethnic association studies), in which Hyderabad-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) also participated, compared genomic DNA of 1.8 lakh people with Type 2 diabetes against 11.6 lakh […]
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London: Increased levels of blood fats, also known as lipids, in people with Type 2 diabetes and obesity are more harmful than previously thought, a new study has found. In patients with metabolic diseases, elevated fat levels in the blood create stress in muscle cells — a reaction to changes outside the cell which damage […]