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What Is Gestational Diabetes — And How Can You Manage It?

...mother and baby—in some cases, becoming life-threatening. What is gestational diabetes? Gestational diabetes occurs when women who have never had diabetes before suddenly develop high blood sugar levels during pregnancy....

By Kamala Thiagarajan

Rethinking Diabetes as Five Diseases, Not Just Two, Will Enable Better Treatment

...that often accompany diabetes, which the team used to define the new categories: Group 1: Severe autoimmune diabetes. This type would correspond to Type 1 diabetes and a rarer subtype,...

By Angelina Shah

Individualized Medicine

Preventing Gestational Diabetes Isn’t One‑Size‑Fits‑All, Researchers Say

...fasting blood sugar levels, and relatives with diabetes. Parsing this information more closely can improve recommendations to prevent gestational diabetes for the most at-risk women. “Preventing gestational diabetes is not...

By Liesl Goecker

Think You’re Too Healthy For Diabetes? Think Again.

...to diabetes. Who is at risk for diabetes? South Asians. India’s alarming diabetes boom has long been thought to be due to sedentary lifestyles, poor dietary habits, and a propensity...

By Farah Naz Khan

Shorter People May Be at a Greater Risk of Type 2 Diabetes

...2 diabetes. The study’s authors suggest that the findings of the study could mean that people’s height can be an alerting factor to assess for either diabetes or cardiovascular diseases....

By Anubhuti Matta

Managing Your Diabetes in the Short Term, to Live Better in the Long Term

...patients with diabetes can lower their risk of the kind of vascular wear-and-tear that creates an environment for these serious long-term effects of diabetes that’s been poorly managed. Complications of...

By Farah Naz Khan

Prediabetes And The Gift Of Time

...enough to be classified as diabetes. Without major lifestyle changes, people with prediabetes are likely to develop type 2 diabetes in 10 years or less. “It’s important to understand that...

By Kamala Thiagarajan

Ozone Exposure Puts People at Risk for Type 2 Diabetes, Study Finds

...ozone exposure every year by 2050. But given that scientists are only just exploring the link between ozone and diabetes, previous studies may not even have considered diabetes while arriving...

By Devrupa Rakshit

The Whiter The Worse

White Rice Consumption Linked to Increased Diabetes Risk In 21‑Country Study

Consuming white rice can increase one’s risk of developing diabetes, according to decade-long research spanning 21 nations. The findings of the study, published in Diabetes Care journal, also highlight that...

Prevention Time

Study: Diabetes Ups Cancer Risk, Especially for Women

...of diabetes were 19% more likely to develop cancer than men without. Women with diabetes were also slightly more likely to develop any form of cancer than men with diabetes....

By The Swaddle Team

Un-Egg-Ceptable

Eating 1 or More Eggs a Day May Boost Diabetes Risk by 60%

...egg consumption increases the risk of diabetes and explains discrepancies between previous studies. “Diet is a known and modifiable factor that contributes to the onset of type 2 diabetes, so...

By 2030, 40 Million People With Diabetes Will Not Be Able to Access, Afford Insulin Treatment

...treatment; anyone with type 1 diabetes, also known as childhood diabetes, requires insulin, but the medication may or may not be required for people with type 2 diabetes. Type 2...

By The Swaddle Team

New Study Links Type 2 Diabetes and Erectile Dysfunction

New research suggests a link between a genetic predisposition to type 2 diabetes and erectile dysfunction. Previous reports of a link between ED and diabetes have been anecdotal only, and...

By Anubhuti Matta

UK Study Ties High Blood Pressure, Diabetes To Impaired Memory, Cognitive Function

...risk of dementia later on. In terms of diabetes, a study with a smaller sample size, and people above the age 50, had found that people with diabetes suffer greater...

By Devrupa Rakshit

Unexpected Benefits

‘Heavy’ Cannabis Use in Women Linked to Lower Rates of Diabetes: Study

...adults, who use cannabis “heavily,” have a lower risk of developing diabetes. Diabetes is a health condition that results from one’s blood glucose — or “blood sugar” — being too high....

By Devrupa Rakshit

Intermittent Fasting Diets May Contribute To Diabetes Risk

...European Society of Endocrinology annual meeting. Type-2 diabetes is caused by a mix of genetic and lifestyle factors. The major lifestyle factors attributed to diabetes risk are poor diet and...

By The Swaddle Team

Effectiveness of India’s Top‑Selling Diabetes Medications in Question

...as ‘the diabetes capital of the world,’ with 60 million of its population affected by type 2 disease. Two-thirds of all diabetes drugs sold in India are what is known...

By The Swaddle Team

Eating a Lot of Gluten During Pregnancy May Increase Kids’ Diabetes Risk

...diabetes in childhood. However, researchers have cautioned that further studies are needed to confirm or rule out these findings. No pregnant woman needs to go gluten-free based on this study...

By The Swaddle Team

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