Topic: Type 2 Diabetes
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Middle-aged adults born at the height of China's famine in the 1950s and 60s may have a greater risk of abnormally high blood sugar than those born just a few years earlier or later, a new study finds. The findings, reported in the journal Diabetes, support the theory that nutrition and growth during fetal development ...
A unit of Johnson & Johnson has partnered with a Nordic pharmaceutical to develop a potential treatment for Type 1 diabetes, the company said Monday. Sweeden's Diamyd Medical AB is conducting late-stage clinical tests on the drug, which is designed to prevent further destruction of ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - An egg a day for breakfast probably won't increase your likelihood of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a new study. In the study, researchers failed to see a significant association between eating eggs occasionally or almost daily and the development of type 2 diabetes in nearly 4,000 older men and women. While eggs ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - People who eat brown rice or other whole grains seem to have a lower risk of developing diabetes than those who eat white rice, according to a U.S. study. A team of researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham and Women's Hospital analyzed about 200,000 adults followed for up to ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Among rice lovers, people who eat brown rice or other whole grains seem to have a lower risk of developing diabetes than those who eat white rice, Boston-based researchers said on Monday. Among more than 197,000 US adults followed for up to 22 years, they found that eating more refined white rice was associated ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who get plenty of vitamin K from food may have a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes than those who get less of the vitamin, a new study suggests. Researchers found that among more than 38,000 Dutch adults they followed for a decade, those who got the most vitamin K in their diets ...
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Healthy adults who drink one to two glasses of alcohol per day have a smaller chance of developing one form of diabetes than those who abstain from alcohol, according to Dutch research published on Tuesday. The 10-year study of 35,000 adults, carried out by the National Institute for Public Health and Environment and Dutch medical and scientific ...
People with a common, obesity-related liver disease that has no known treatment got a surprising benefit from vitamin E pills, researchers reported Wednesday. It appears to be the first time that a vitamin supplement has been shown to help treat a major ailment not caused by a nutrient deficiency ...
For many Americans, a poor diet and sedentary lifestyle often lead to high blood pressure and insulin resistance as we age, making us more vulnerable to heart disease and type 2 diabetes. But eating more grapes might reduce the risk, or at least delay the onset ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Adults who have a drink or two per day may have a lower diabetes risk than teetotalers -- and the link does not appear to be explained by moderate drinkers' generally healthier lifestyle, a new study finds. A number of studies have found an association between moderate drinking and a relatively lower risk of developing type 2 ...
