Archive for February, 2008
Sunday, February 24th, 2008
You’ve heard about diabetes in pregnancy or gestational diabetes and may be wondering if you may have it. Maybe you just want to make sure you would recognize the symptoms of diabetes in pregnancy so you can get it under control before you risk the health of yourself and your ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
A new study at Texas A&M has shown a link between diabetics inability to metabolize sugar ad fatty acids. It has long been known that people diagnoses with diabetes have a hard time metabolizing not only sugar and carbs but also fatty acids, but since these are two different biochemical ...
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Sunday, February 10th, 2008
The Asian-American population faces a higher risk of diabetes than Caucasians. Increasingly, these cases are undiagnosed because the first warning sign, obesity, is not usually found in Asian Americans. Most of these cases of diabetes are diagnosed after one or more complications have developed. Most Asians are ...
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
There are both long-term and short-term complications with diabetes. Short-term complications may include frequent infections. A person with diabetes has a weakened ability to use white blood cells to fight infection. To make the problem worse, when a patient with diabetes has an infection, it makes blood ...
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