A new study out of Be’er Sheva University, Israel, has found that adolescent’s body mass index (BMI) can predict early occurrences of diabetes and heart disease in adulthood. The large cohort study which followed 37,000 teenagers for 17 years found that elevated BMI at adolescence and at adulthood are independently of...

A new report by UnitedHealth Group’s Center for Health Reform & Modernization estimates that more than 50 percent of Americans could have diabetes or prediabetes by 2020 at a cost of $3.35 trillion over the next decade if current trends continue. If this estimate is correct diabetes and prediabetes will account for an estimated...

Aetna, one of the leading diversified health care benefits companies in the US, serving approximately 35.4 million people, announced a pilot program aimed at improving the care of diabetic patients of Hispanic and African American descent. The new program is a year-long initiative that includes adding a bilingual...

Scientists have found that blood levels of some ribonucleic acids (microRNAs) are different among people with type 2 diabetes and those who subsequently develop the disease compared to healthy controls, according to research reported in Circulation Research: Journal of the American Heart Association. “We think that some of these...

A new study by University of Pittsburgh researchers has found that women who exclusively breastfeed their children for at least one month are less likely to develop type 2 diabetes. The researchers studied the records of 2233 women, including 1828 mothers of which 56% breastfed their children for at least one month. The researchers...

Eating green leafy vegetables may reduce risk of type 2 diabetes, a new study shows. According to the study published in the British Medical Journal, increasing daily consumption of green leafy vegetables could significantly reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes. The researchers investigated the independent effects of intake of fruit and...

A new study by researchers at the German Institute for Nutritional Research in Potsdam-Rehbrücke has found that waist circumference gives a better prediction of diabetes risk than does BMI, EurekAlert reports. Current guidelines recommend that the degree of risk of diabetes from excess weight should be based on the determination of the...

A study by Australian and Vietnamese scientists found about 11% of men and 12% of women in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City had undiagnosed type 2 diabetes, according to a BBC report.  This was in addition to the 4% of people who had been diagnosed. The researchers from Australia’s Garvan Institute of Medical Research blamed...

A new study has found that consuming white rice appears to be associated with a higher risk for developing type 2 diabetes in comparison with those who consume more brown rice, according to a EurekAlert report. A team of Harvard researchers assessed rice consumption and diabetes risk among 39,765 men and 157,463 women in three large...

New evidence shows that drinking coffee may help prevent diabetes and lower blood sugar, according to a EurekAlert report. In a study, published in Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, scientists fed either water or coffee to a group of laboratory mice commonly used to study diabetes. Coffee consumption prevented the development...