| Diabetics risk going blind if they do not control their illness, writes KASMIAH MUSTAPHA. AS symptoms only manifest until it is too late, most diabetics do not know they are at risk of developing other serious illnesses related to their disease. One such malady is diabetic retinopathy or diabetic eye disease, a highly specific vascular complication of both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. Universiti Sains Malaysia Professor of Medicine Dr Mafauzy Mohamed says the condition, if untreated, will lead to vision deterioration and ultimately, blindness. |  |
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It's not one of those things you really want someone to notice when they step off the plane at Port Columbus. "I am struck by seeing the fatness that is around," said Dr. Pierre Lefébvre, former president of the International Diabetes Federation in Belgium and the speaker who opened Ohio State University's two-day international summit on diabetes at Easton yesterday. |
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The Diabetes Awareness Workshop was aimed at increasing awareness amongst mothers and young women about the cause and effects of Diabetes and its proliferation across this specific demographic in the UAE. |
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Millions of Americans have pre-diabetes, a condition that raises their risk of developing heart disease and type 2 diabetes, and many have no idea. |
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KOLKATA: The people of West Bengal, suffering from diabetes, will get an easy and alternative panacea for the disease as camel milk powder will soon hit the markets here. |
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MyPhotoDiet.com offers photographic menu plans for diabetes, weight loss and high blood pressure. The company has recently launched a 14 day diet for Type 2 diabetics approved by Registered Dieticians and Certified Diabetes Educators. |
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Two transporters that deliver alternative energy sources to the eye may help delay retinal damage that can occur in diabetes, researchers say. |
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Today, Monday 3 December, 36 year old Neil Huntercase leaves the UK to take on the challenge of a lifetime. Neil from Godalming, who was diagnosed with diabetes two years ago, and has a challenge in managing his health every day, is taking on one of the world's toughest ocean feats, the Woodvale Challenge. Thanks to a new all-in-one testing system, to help manage his blood glucose levels, Neil will embark on this 2,500 mile rowing race across the Atlantic Ocean, which will take him from La Gomera, in the Canaries, where the race starts to Antigua, in the Caribbean, where it finishes. He is expected to complete in 52 days. |
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As the executive director of the Utah Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and friend of many who live each day with type 1 diabetes, I'd like to discuss the devastating effects of this disease and urge the renewal of the Special Diabetes Program to fund diabetes research. |
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(CNN) -- Diabetes is the fifth-leading killer of Americans, according to the American Diabetes Association. A sobering two out of three people with type I or type II diabetes will die from a heart attack or stroke -- the combined leading causes of death among diabetics. |
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