Category: Diabetes

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The majority of people with diabetes who were only in their twenties had a least one complication of the condition already, a recent study shows. Rita Kalyani, a diabetes expert at Johns Hopkins, says this study points very squarely to …

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Even if you’re only in your twenties if you’ve had diabetes for 10 years or more kidney disease, eye disease and nerve disease are likely, a sobering new study finds. Rita Kalyani, a diabetes expert at Johns Hopkins, says this …

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Some children develop type 2 diabetes in childhood or teenage years, and now a study looking at what happens to them as they age into their twenties comes to some disturbing conclusions. Rita Kalyani, a diabetes expert at Johns Hopkins, …

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There are a wide range of choices when it comes to medicines to manage diabetes. Rita Kalyani, a diabetes expert and author of a recent review paper in the New England Journal of Medicine, says if you have additional health …

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Anchor lead: A new study suggests quite a few people who look to be headed to develop diabetes may not, Elizabeth Tracey reports Prediabetes refers to a host of conditions such as elevated blood markers that seem to point the …

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