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Symptoms Visible and Invisible

Having lived my way around and through a type 1 diabetes diagnosis is helping me set my course as I begin to cope with Parkinson's...
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Team Type 1 Launches First Clinical Study in Athletes with Type 1 Diabetes

Global sports organization Team Type 1, the official parent company of the Team Type 1- sanofi aventis professional men’s cycling team, announced the launch a clinical study at the Amgen Tour of California. The pioneering study conducted by the Team Type 1 Diabetes Sports Research Institute, will assess blood glucose levels of elite cyclists...
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Check Your Vitamin D Level

Vitamin D deficiency can contribute to retinopathy in young people with type 1 diabetes, according to a new study published in Diabetes Care. If you haven't checked your vitamin D level recently, ask your doctor to check next time you go in for an HbA1c test.
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Adolescent BMI May Predict Diabetes and Heart Disease In Adulthood

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...
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Lipitor Raises Risk of Type 2 Diabetes

The results of three large randomized clinical trials examining the predictors of new-onset type 2 diabetes in patients treated with Lipitor (Atorvastatin) were published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. The researchers found that patients treated with high-doses of atorvastatin...
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Diabetes Risk in Older Women not Linked to Vitamin D Levels

Low vitamin D levels are not linked to an increased risk of type 2 diabetes, according to a study published in Diabetes Care. In the study Dr. Jennifer G. Robinson, a professor of epidemiology and medicine at the University of Iowa, and researchers followed women participating in the Women’s Health Initiative Clinical Trials...
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