While there are different types of diabetes, they all stem from the body’s inability to regulate blood sugar. When we eat food, the body turns it into glucose (sugar) which provides us with the energy ...
While hydrating won’t replace any medications prescribed for diabetes, it does play a role in staving off high readings. Here ...
People who are overweight or obese have a significantly increased risk of developing diabetes, but exactly how that happens is not well understood. A new study at Washington University School of ...
John Wentworth has found that immune cells in fat tissue explain the link between obesity and diabetes. Inflammation-causing cells in fat tissue may explain the link between obesity and diabetes, a ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Differences in medication adherence do not fully explain why African Americans fare more poorly than whites in managing their diabetes, a new study suggests. Research has ...
Overcoming the challenges in managing type 1 diabetes can sometimes feel like an unappreciated "superpower." That was part of the thinking behind the creation of a comic book trilogy that aims to ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - While some research has suggested that obese women have an increased risk of having a baby with a birth defect, a new study shows that diabetes may at least partly account ...
ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - November is National Diabetes Awareness Month, a time when communities across the country bring attention to the condition that hundreds of thousands of Americans live with. Two ...
It's easy to feel like we're invincible when we're young and not think about how everything we do now affects our health as we age. Yes, that tan you got when you were 20 on vacation in Mexico looked ...
Ethnicity & Disease, Vol. 26, No. 4, Obesity (Autumn 2016), pp. 529-536 (8 pages) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National diabetes fact sheet: national estimates and general information ...
Winter can quietly worsen foot problems for people with diabetes, increasing risks of cracks, ulcers and infections. Doctors ...
SPRINGFIELD, Mo.– People with type 2 diabetes are eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine but not type 1. CoxHealth’s President and CEO Steve Edwards believes that should change. “Right now in Missouri, if ...