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FRIDAY, Nov. 22, 2024 (HealthDay News) — How long Americans can expect to live varies dramatically — and the gap continues to widen. A new report says health inequalities have, in essence, created 10 Americas. These mutually exclusive populations are divided along familiar fault lines, including race, ethnicity, income andContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 20, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A type 2 diabetes diagnosis before age 50 comes with a health risk that patients might not expect. Especially if they are obese, these folks are more likely to develop dementia later, new research warns. “Our study suggests that there may be a cognitiveContinue Reading
MONDAY, Nov. 18, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Drugs already taken by millions of diabetes patients appear to also help slash asthma attacks by up to 70%, new British research shows. The two drugs are metformin, one of the most widely used diabetes medications, and the GLP-1 class of medications thatContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Nov. 14, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Fourteen percent of the world’s people — more than 800 million — now have diabetes, a doubling of the global rate for the blood sugar disease since 1990, new statistics show. Type 2 diabetes, which makes up 95% of cases, is surging inContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Nov. 14, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Periodontal (gum) disease and diabetes are locked in a grim partnership aimed at undermining your health, experts warn. “Recent research has shown that diabetes is not only a major risk factor for periodontitis but that the relationship between the two conditions is bidirectional,Continue Reading
MONDAY, Nov. 11, 2024 (HealthDay News) — People with both type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease face a heart health double-whammy, a new study says. Men with both diabetes and kidney disease will develop heart health problems 28 years earlier than those without either condition, researchers reported today atContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Nearly 16% of American adults — that’s close to 1 in 6 — now has diabetes, according to the latest data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Increasing age and widening waistlines greatly increase the odds for the disease, whichContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Nov. 1, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Hillary Fisher thinks receiving weight-loss surgery as a teenager put her on the path to a better life. Fisher is one of 260 teens who participated in a long-term study which recently concluded that weight-loss surgery can bring lasting health benefits for obeseContinue Reading
MONDAY, Oct. 28, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The weight-loss drug Ozempic can guard against kidney disease in obese people, a new study shows. Patients taking semaglutide — the active agent in Ozempic and Wegovy — had as much as a 52% reduction in kidney damage, as measured by urine testing,Continue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Type 2 diabetes is caused in part by the failure of pancreatic beta cells to respond as they should to blood sugar. Now, new research suggests that switching to a low-carbohydrate diet might correct that beta cell dysfunction, boosting patients’ health. “People withContinue Reading