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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 and address. 

While life expectancy rose in nine of 10 Americas between 2000 and 2010, only s...

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 that include Ozempic,

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  • November 18, 2024
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  • 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 in poorer countries. However, across these resource-poor nations, ...

    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 at an A...

    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, which happens when the body doesn't use insulin properly, resulting in high blood sugar levels. If left unchecked, diabetes can be disabling and ...

    Menopausal women with frequent hot flashes and night sweats are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes, a new study warns.

    Middle-aged women who regularly suffer those well-known symptoms of menopause are 50% more likely to wind up with type 2 diabetes, researchers ...

    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 obese teenagers.

    “It changed my life,” Fisher, now 31, said in a news release. “The improved health and self-e...

    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, researchers reported Oct. 25 in the journal ...

    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 with type 2 diabetes on a low-carbohydrate diet can recover their beta cells, an outcome that cannot be achieved with medic...

    Two new studies show insurers continue to deny claims for preventive care that is supposed to be free under Obamacare.

    And insurers are more apt to reject claims from patients who are Asian, Black or Hispanic as well as those with low incomes, researchers recently reported in the journal JAMA Network Open

    There’s good news for folks who struggle to fit regular exercise into their busy workweek.

    “Weekend warrior” workouts are just as beneficial as daily exercise to a person’s overall health, a new study says.

    People who get all their weekly recommended...

    If a woman is already in a "prediabetic" state in her teen or college years, her odds for a serious complication of pregnancy later in life rises, new research shows.

    Ignoring prediabetes in teenagers "may represent a missed opportunity to avert pregnancy-related complications" later, said study lead author Katharine McCarthy

    Over 40 percent of U.S. adults are now obese, with rates roughly the same for men and women, new government data shows.

    Obesity rates fluctuated with age and fell as levels of education increased, said the report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

    The only good news: The rate of adult obesity did not change between 2013 and 2023, said a team led by

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  • September 24, 2024
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  • Diabetes can worsen the state of your gums, but a new study suggests that diabetes medications may undo some of that damage.

    Researchers in Japan found a positive turnaround in markers of gum well-being after people with diabetes received medication.

    "Promoting collaboration between medical and dental care from the early stages of diabetes can significantly contribute to preventing...

    One of the most common diabetes drugs, metformin, might deliver an added bonus: Lowering users' odds for Long COVID.

    Long COVID can present with symptoms including chronic fatigue, brain fog and chest pain and it may last weeks or months after an initial COVID infection. It's thought that millions of Americans suffer with the illness.

    As the researchers note,

  • Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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  • September 19, 2024
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  • A specific class of diabetes drug appears to lower people’s risk for dementia and Parkinson’s disease, a new study shows.

    Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors, also known as gliflozins, lower blood sugar by prompting the kidneys to filter sugar out of the bloodstream and excrete it in urine, researchers said.

    But these drugs might also protect brain health, ...

    A few cups of coffee each morning can help protect a person against heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes, a new study says.

    Drinking three cups of coffee a day -- or about 200 to 300 milligrams of caffeine -- lowered the risk of health problems linked to the heart or metabolism, researchers found.

    “The findings highlight that promoting moderate amounts of coffee or caffei...

    Fatty liver disease linked to diabetes and obesity can easily progress to liver cirrhosis, but new research suggests that GLP-1 medicines like Ozempic can help stop that.

    In a new decades-long study, veterans with diabetes and what's known as metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) were 14% less likely to progress t...

    Weekly insulin shots can help control both type 1 and type 2 diabetes as well as daily injections do, a pair of clinical trials have found.

    A new class of insulin called efsitora alfa has been designed to require injections only once a week, researchers said.

    Two phase 3 trials presented Tuesday at the ...

    People with diabetes are more prone to gum disease, due to the damage the chronic illness does to small blood vessels, a new study warns.

    Diabetics who suffer from other diseases caused by small blood vessel damage -- diabetic retinopathy and neuropathy -- are also at higher risk for gum disease, researchers found.

    People were 21% more likely to have moderate or severe gum dise...

    Losing weight can help a person with obesity -- especially those with diabetes -- fend off serious infections, new data shows.

    It's an important finding, since "up to one in three hospitalizations in people with diabetes are for infections and people with diabetes are twice as likely to be hospitalized with infections than the general population. They are also at high risk of readmission,...

    Getting older tends to go hand in hand with failing vision, but eye experts say there are things you can do to preserve your sight as you age.

    The risk of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and diabetic retinopathy increases among seniors, but vision loss and blindness aren't a foregone conclusion, according to the ...

    A new interactive map of the United States can show people the risk of leg, foot or toe amputations due to peripheral artery disease (PAD) in their locale.

    Mississippi has the highest risk of lower limb amputation, followed by Texas, Louisiana, Alabama and South Carolina, the

    Your cellphone might be harming your heart, a new study warns.

    People who regularly use a cellphone have a higher risk of heart disease, researchers found in a large-scale study.

    And the more time someone spends on their phone, the greater their risk f...

    Insulin can be a critical part of managing diabetes, but patients may not know all of the ins and outs of using the medication effectively.

    Luckily, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) has plenty of information and tips on using insulin.

    First, there are different types of insulin, depending on how fast they work, when they peak and how long they last. Insulin is also ...

    Diabetes can age the brain by up to four years, a new study based on MRI scans shows.

    There was one silver lining: Healthy lifestyle changes could help prevent that neurological aging, the Swedish researchers said.

    “Having an older-appearing brain for one’s chronological age can indicate deviation from the normal aging process and may constitute an early warning sign for...

    Some bats have the highest blood sugar levels ever observed in any mammal, surviving and even thriving with levels that would kill a human, researchers report.

    These bats could provide insights into treating and managing diabetes, they added.

    “Our study reports blood sugar levels that are the hig...

    Type 2 diabetes increased by nearly 20% in the United States between 2012 and 2022,  with age, race, income level, obesity and lack of exercise all playing a role in the metabolic disease’s spread, a new study reports.

    “Diabetes is increasing day ...

    Eating red meat and processed meat can increase a person’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes, a new review finds.

    Regularly eating 50 grams of processed meat a day -- the equivalent of two slices of ham -- increased by 15% a person’s risk of developing typ...

    A review of U.S. data from 2012 through 2024 finds that when kids get free school meals, there's a potential for a slight increase in attendance and a lowering of child obesity rates.

    Even kids from higher-income households benefited, as many took advantage of wholesome lunches provided by schools, the researchers said.

    That means they could eat healthier fare "instead of bringing f...

    Tirzepatide, the blockbuster GLP-1 medicine known as Mounjaro for diabetes and Zepbound for weight loss, cut the odds that an obese, prediabetic person will develop diabetes by 94%, a new trial shows.

    The three-year-long trial, funded by the drugs' maker, Eli Lilly, also found "sustained ...

    Toxin from one of the most venomous animals on the planet – a deadly sea snail – could help researchers figure out new ways to treat diabetes and other hormone disorders, a new study suggests.

    A toxin in the venom of the geography cone snail mimics a human hormone called somatostatin, which regula...

    Americans continue to rank dead last in life expectancy among English-speaking countries, a new study finds.

    People in the United States more often fall prey at younger ages to accidental deaths, homicides and chronic diseases, researchers reported Aug. 13 in the BMJ Open journal.

    On the other hand, Australians had t...

    About 14% of women will develop diabetes while pregnant, a condition known as gestational diabetes.

    It's linked with obesity and older age, and the number of cases is growing although they usually resolve by the time of delivery.

    Now, a new study delivers reassuring news for women h...

    People can offset hours spent sitting around with minutes of active exercise each week, a new study claims.

    Folks who are sedentary for eight or more hours daily can lower their overall risk of death – and especially their risk of dying from heart disease...

    New research has added two conditions to the list of 12 risk factors that boost the chances of a dementia diagnosis.

    The good news? You can guard against the development of both and researchers offer advice on exactly how to do that.

    In a study published Wednesday in 

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  • August 1, 2024
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  • Having a mom with type 1 diabetes might provide long-term protection against the condition in children, a new review finds.

    This protective effect is suggested by that fact that a child is almost twice as likely to develop type 1 diabetes if their father has the condition th...

    Abbott has warned diabetes patients that some of its continuous blood sugar monitoring systems may need to be replaced because of inaccurate readings.

    "Abbott has recently identified a small number of FreeStyle Libre 3 sensors that may provide incorrect high glucose readings, which if undetected may pose a potential health risk for people living with diabetes," the company said in an

    As marijuana loses much of its stigma and laws around its use relax, Americans are increasingly consuming it medically and recreationally.

    Americans with diabetes are no exception, a new study finds.

    The number of adults with diabetes who said that they'd used cannabis at least once over the past month...

    The boom in using GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic to treat obesity has resulted in a bust regarding the drugs’ original purpose, which was to treat type 2 diabetes, a new study finds. 

    New prescriptions for these drugs have doubled among people who have obesity but not diabetes, investigators...

    Diabetics who sleep too little or too much are more likely to suffer damage to their small blood vessels, a condition that can cause organ damage throughout their bodies.

    Short sleep duration is tied to a 2.6 times increased risk of small blood vessel damage, also known as microvascular disease, in people with diabetes, a new study reports.

    Likewise, the study found long sleep durat...

    Diabetes can make lumbar spinal fusion surgery much more likely to fail, a new study says.

    People with diabetes are nearly three times more likely to have their vertebrae fail to properly heal and fuse together, what surgeons call a non-union complication, according to results recently published in the journa...

    Osteoarthritis could nearly triple a person's risk of developing a multitude of other chronic illnesses, a new two-decade study finds.

    People with osteoarthritis (OA) -- where cartilage breaks down, allowing bones to rub against each other -- tend to develop multiple other health problems as the years progress, researchers found.

    These other chronic illnesses can include heart disea...

    If it would stave off heart disease, diabetes and colon cancer, would you swear off bacon and burgers?

    A new international simulation projects cutting Americans' intake of processed meat alone by 30% could head off more than 350,000 cases of...

    Screening for chronic illnesses like diabetes or fatty liver disease could one day be as simple as checking the temperature of your nose, eyes or cheeks.

    The temperature of different parts of the face are associated with various chronic diseases, researchers reported July 2 in the journal

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  • July 3, 2024
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  • Want to reduce your risk of type 2 diabetes? Avoid bright light at night, a recent study suggests.

    More exposure to light at night, between 12:30 a.m. and 6 a.m., is linked to a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes, researchers found.

    That's likely because l...

    A common plastics chemical might increase a person's risk of diabetes, a new study warns.

    People fed small doses of Bisphonol A (BPA) developed significantly worse insulin sensitivity within a four-day period, researchers found.

    "We were surprised to see that reducing BPA exposure, such as using stainle...

    The COVID virus, or rather people's immune response to it, has changed and it might be prudent to wait a couple days after symptoms start before taking a COVID test, researchers report.

    "For COVID, we found that if you only have one test, it's best to wait two days after symptoms arise to use it, because the virus is unlikely to be detectable until then,"said study first author

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  • June 26, 2024
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  • A person's gut microbiome appears to increase their risk of developing type 2 diabetes, researchers claim.

    Specific strains of gut microbes are more commonly found in people with type 2 diabetes, and these strains seem to heighten the risk of developing the metabolic d...

    Losing weight can protect you against cancers related to obesity, a new study finds.

    Obesity has been linked to higher risk of at least 13 types of cancer, researchers said. This is largely due to excess levels of hormones like estrogen and insulin.

    But study results show that dropping pounds can improve a person's odds against developing these cancers, including

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  • June 25, 2024
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