Diabetes
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What are the healthiest drinks for patients with type 2 diabetes?
“It is reasonable to shift the focus to drinks that are most likely to have positive health impacts: coffee, tea, plain water, and low-fat milk...
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Study offers dozens of reasons to cut sugar
The result is a list that cites the world’s most common health problems like heart disease, diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, heart attack,...
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Could a baby’s gut health be an early predictor of future type 1 diabetes?
The found a decrease in butyrate-producing bacteria (Anaerostipes, Flavonifractor, Ruminococcaceae UBA1819, and Eubacterium...
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Retinopathy ‘emerging decades earlier’ in kids with type 2 diabetes than in adults
In pediatric patients with type 2 diabetes, diabetic retinopathy is diagnosed in 1 in 14 youth; the risk of retinopathy increased significantly 5...
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Artificial pancreas ‘superior’ in young kids with type 1 diabetes
“Successful use of the closed-loop system ... is an important finding that could affect the approach to initiating and monitoring the use of the...
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High caffeine levels may lower body fat, type 2 diabetes risks
Previous short-term studies have linked caffeine intake with reductions in weight and fat mass.
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Can particles in dairy and beef cause cancer and MS?
Researchers found single-stranded DNA rings that originated in viruses, which they named bovine meat and milk factors, in the intestines of...
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Gestational diabetes affects fetal lung development
Exomes associated with diabetes mellitus impeded the growth and maturation of fetal lungs.
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‘Breakthrough’ study: Diabetes drug helps prevent long COVID
Metformin led to a 42% drop in long COVID among people who had a mild to moderate COVID-19 infection.
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Causal link found between childhood obesity and adult-onset diabetes
Bigger children have increased risks for almost all subtypes of adult-onset diabetes, a Mendelian randomization study indicates.