Women who have diabetes before becoming pregnant are about three times as likely as other women to have a baby with at least one birth defect, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
In an effort to address the growing prevalence of diabetes in the United States, the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists on Tuesday issued its first-ever recommendations for the diagnosis and treatment of people with pre-diabetes, USA Today reports.
Antioxidants in date sugar, dark brown sugars help control blood pressure, heart disease.
Maternal obesity has been associated with diabetic complications in the resulting offspring, according to experiments in mice reported recently by researchers at the University of Louisville. Obesity is presently a worldwide health issue, and it is commonly considered a risk factor for diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and stroke.
Diet Key to Diabetes Risk
Jul 30
Fruits, vegetables, exercise reduce chances of blood sugar disease.
An abundance of vitamin C in the diet may help lower a person’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes, new research suggests.
The California Legislative Black Caucus Foundation and Assembly member Sandre Swanson (D) on Friday sponsored a health care summit that focused on ways to address diabetes and obesity, particularly in minority communities, the Contra Costa Times reports. At the summit held in Oakland, Calif.
UK researchers said that eating brocolli could reverse the damage done to heart blood vessels by diabetes because the vegetable contains a compound called sulforaphane that they tested in the lab and found it increased enzymes that protect heart blood vessels and reduced the molecules that damage them.
An Internet-based blood-sugar monitoring program appears to help people with type 1 diabetes better manage their condition, researchers report.
A glucose management meter, which communicates without wires to a pump that delivers insulin to people with diabetes, has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.