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Anchor lead: Can controlling high blood pressure reduce diabetes risk? Elizabeth Tracey reports Certain types of blood pressure medicines taken at night seem to reduce the risk of developing diabetes, a recent study found. Gregory Prokopowicz, a high blood pressure …
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Anchor lead: Is there a relationship between overweight and certain brain tumors? Elizabeth Tracey reports Over a third of all brain tumors actually develop from the tissue covering of the brain and are called meningiomas. Now a new study implicates …
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Anchor lead: Could variations in a common test identify early dementia? Elizabeth Tracey reports Oral glucose tolerance tests are commonly used during pregnancy and to test for diabetes. Now research led by Esther Oh, a dementia expert at Johns Hopkins, …
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Anchor lead: People who are considering obesity surgery might want a nutritional assessment beforehand, Elizabeth Tracey reports One in five very obese patients who were about to have obesity or bariatric surgery at Johns Hopkins were found to have nutritional …
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Anchor lead: What’s the nutritional status of people who are obese? Elizabeth Tracey reports In spite of consuming large amounts of food, a surprising number of people who are very overweight, so-called morbidly obese, are nutritionally compromised. That’s according to …
