Childhood Diabetes Epidemic Expands: Study
Health care experts warn about serious and lasting health complications for future generations of Americans… [more]
Diabetes – Underrated
NY Times: Diabetes: Underrated, Insidious and Deadly By TARA PARKER-POPE In a set of recent focus… [more]
Oxygen Levels in the Womb Determine Adult Heart Disease Risk
The amount of oxygen available to a baby in the womb can affect their susceptibility to developing particular… [more]
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Childhood Diabetes Epidemic Expands: Study
Health care experts warn about serious and lasting health complications for future generations of Americans stemming from increasingly expanding children’s waistlines. In an article in the July issue of the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, University of Michigan’s C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital pediatric endocrinologist Dr. Joyce Lee warns that the most damaging effects of [...]
Diabetes – Underrated
NY Times: Diabetes: Underrated, Insidious and Deadly By TARA PARKER-POPE In a set of recent focus groups, participants were asked to rank the severity of various health problems, including cancer, heart disease and diabetes. On a scale of 1 to 10, cancer and heart disease consistently ranked as 9s and 10s. But diabetes scored only [...]
Oxygen Levels in the Womb Determine Adult Heart Disease Risk
The amount of oxygen available to a baby in the womb can affect their susceptibility to developing particular diseases later in life. Research funded by the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and the British Heart foundation and presented at the annual Society for Endocrinology BES meeting in Harrogate (full abstract, below) shows that [...]
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Childhood Diabetes Epidemic Expands: Study
Health care experts warn about serious and lasting health complications for future generations of Americans stemming from increasingly expanding children’s waistlines. In an article in the July issue of the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, University of Michigan’s C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital pediatric endocrinologist Dr. Joyce Lee warns that the most damaging effects of [...]
Diabetes – Underrated
NY Times: Diabetes: Underrated, Insidious and Deadly By TARA PARKER-POPE In a set of recent focus groups, participants were asked to rank the severity of various health problems, including cancer, heart disease and diabetes. On a scale of 1 to 10, cancer and heart disease consistently ranked as 9s and 10s. But diabetes scored only [...]
