Posts Tagged ‘diabetes’
5 Key to Prevent Diabetes
If in your daily life, you are eating healthy foods or exercise regularly, it will reduce the risk of diabetes. For those who have not, of course you need to make changes to one, two or three, in the pattern of your life than ever before.
“The question we want to try increasing the improvement of our individual lifestyle or not,” said Jared Reis, PhD, lead author and epidemiologist with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, in Bethesda, Md., as quoted from Health.com
Reis and her colleagues analyzed data on more than 200,000 men and women in eight countries that are part of the long-term studies on diet and health led by the National Cancer Institute.
In the mid-1990s, study participants answered detailed questionnaires about their diet, lifestyle, medical history, physical characteristics, and demographic profiles. Ten years later, around 9% of men and women have diabetes.
identify symptoms of diabetes
Diabetes mellitus has become a rapidly growing pandemic. The disease is estimated to cause four million deaths per year, almost equal to deaths from HIV / AIDS. Data for 2000 mentions diabetes mellitus affects 8.4 million people and will increase to 21.3 million in 2030.
Most people with diabetes (diabetes) diagnosed in the advanced state. In fact, according to dr.Budiman Darmowidjojo, Sp.PD, the situation has been further complications in the kidneys, eyes, blood vessels, or nerves. “The danger of this disease is not just high blood sugar but its complications,” he explained. Read the rest of this entry »
Infants Born at Risk of Diabetes Caesar
A new study reveals that babies who are born through a process likely threatened Caesar has diabetes. PubMed journal published research indicates that babies born via cesarean process 20% more at risk of developing type 1 diabetes compared to babies born through normal delivery. Type 1 diabetes that may stem from an early age, is currently increasing in prevalence in Europe and the experts could not yet confirm the cause.
Type 1 diabetes in children is increasing in prevalence in Europe, and the average height of this indicates that environmental factors may be the cause. Cardwell and his team then conducted a review of 20 studies that have been done. The study indicated that initial contacts babies against bacteria in the hospital during caesarean action might be the cause. And if the baby is born normally, the body they will make contact in the birth canal with beneficial bacteria that comes from the mother for the first time.
No wonder, when the normal birth risk of diabetes according to study findings Cardwell only about 0.3% only. While the babies were Caesarean, the risk increases to 20%. However, this figure cannot be explained or attributed to other factors such as infant weight at birth, breast milk intake, maternal age or a number of other conditions such as gestational diabetes or increased blood sugar during pregnancy in women who previously did not have it.