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As Southeast Asians embrace American fast foods, such as pizza, french fries, hot dogs and hamburgers, more are dying prematurely form coronary heart disease and developing diabetes type 2, researchers from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health and the National University of Singapore reported in the journal Circulation. The authors say that attention should be focused on the impact...
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Showing posts with label Heart Disease; Cholesterol; Stroke Prevention; Diseases and Conditions; Chronic Illness;. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Heart Disease; Cholesterol; Stroke Prevention; Diseases and Conditions; Chronic Illness;. Show all posts
Long-Overlooked Protein May Be The Gateway To The Storage And Burning Of Fat, Diabetes Treatment
Humans are built to hunger for fat, packing it on during times of feast and burning it during periods of famine. But when deluged by foods rich in fat and sugar, the modern waistline often far exceeds the need to store energy for lean times, and the result has been an epidemic of diabetes, heart diseaseand other obesity-related problems.Now, scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies...
Higher HbA1c Levels Predict Better Outcomes in Advanced Heart Failure With Diabetes
Patients with advanced heart failure who were also diabetic had better two-year survival if their baseline glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels were >7.3% in a new study [1]. Among the non-diabetic patients with heart failure, HbA1C levels did not predict survival outcomes. The retrospective cohort study is published online March 27, 2012 in the American Journal of Cardiology. "We're finding that...
