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    General Health EXPOSED: How to tackle diabetes – Vanguard News Nigeria

    Medical experts on Wednesday called for inclusiveness as well as an early diagnosis and treatment of diabetes to reduce the burden on people living with the disease. They spoke at a forum organised to commemorate the 2018 World Diabetes Day organised by the University College Hospital (UCH)...
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    General Health Lifestyle: 7 ways you can prevent prediabetes from becoming type 2 diabetes – pulse.ng

    Prediabetes can easily become type 2 diabetes. Fortunately, it can be reversed. Here are ways to stop prediabetes from becoming diabetes. Prediabetes is a serious condition that signifies an early onset insulin resistance— it can also potentially become type 2 diabetes. According to … Read...
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    General Health Not exercising worse than smoking, diabetes and heart disease: Study – The Hindu – Health

    Next time, don’t hit the snooze button when the alarm goes off and skip your morning workout. The consequences could be worse than what you thought, according to a new study. The findings of the study suggest that a sedentary lifestyle is worse for one’s health than … Read more via The Hindu...
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    General Health ‘Spectacular’ diabetes treatment could end daily insulin injections – the Guardian

    A potential medical breakthrough that could put an end to the daily insulin injections endured by people living with diabetes has been unveiled by Dutch scientists. By destroying the mucous membrane in the small intestine and causing a new one to develop, scientists stabilised the blood sugar...
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    General Health Lifestyle: 10 things that can increase your risk for diabetes – pulse.ng

    While some of the risk of getting diabetes comes from genetics, there are some things you might be doing that could increase your overall risk for diabetes. If you don’t have it, you may be confused about what exactly diabetes is and what … Read more via pulse.ng – Nigeria’s entertainment...
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    General Health Higher risk of alcohol- and suicide-related death in diabetes – Medical News Today

    A new study uncovers a worrying association: people who have any form of diabetes are more likely to die by suicide, causes related to alcohol consumption, or due to an accident. Mental health problems linked with diabetes may lead to a higher risk of death by suicide in … Read more via...
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    General Health ‘Ground-breaking’ diabetes insulin drug – BBC News

    A "ground-breaking" drug that helps people with diabetes re-grow insulin-making cells has been developed. About 19,000 people live with Type 1 of the condition in Wales and 90% have less than 5% of these cells left. This means they have to inject insulin but it is hoped the new drug will mean...
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    General Health The 17 Best Snacks to Eat If You Have Diabetes – Prevention

    Once you’ve been diagnosed with diabetes, the way you approach food completely changes. That’s because dips and peaks in your blood sugar can dictate how you feel throughout the day, and the foods you eat play a major role in that. Once you start taking medication or insulin to control …...
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    General Health ‘Link between diabetes and cancer risk firmly established’ – Medical News Today

    That diabetes and cancer are linked in some way is by no means a new idea, but it had never previously been confirmed. Now, a major new study draws a firm conclusion: diabetes raises a person's risk of developing cancer. Research suggests that a diagnosis of diabetesplaces a person at an...
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    General Health 13 Ways to Prevent Diabetes, Based on Science – Healthline

    Diabetes is a chronic disease that affects millions of people worldwide. Uncontrolled cases can cause blindness, kidney failure, heart disease and other serious conditions. Before diabetes is diagnosed, there is a period where blood sugar levels are high but not high enough to be diagnosed as...
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    General Health Preventing diabetes | How to cut diabetes risk – www.ageuk.org.uk

    The older we get, the more likely we are to get diabetes, specifically type 2. Around 1 in 7 older people have diabetes and these numbers are likely to rise. Although no-one completely understands the causes of diabetes, if you control the risk factors, you can reduce your chances of getting it...
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    General Health Simple Steps to Preventing Diabetes | The Nutrition Source – The Nutrition Source

    If type 2 diabetes was an infectious disease, passed from one person to another, public health officials would say we’re in the midst of an epidemic. This difficult disease, once called adult-onset diabetes, is striking an ever-growing number of adults. Even more alarming, it’s now beginning to...
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    General Health What are the signs and symptoms of diabetes? – Diabetes UK

    Are you worried that you, your child or someone you know, may have diabetes? Having some of the signs of diabetes doesn’t mean you definitely have the condition, but you should always contact your GP, just to make sure. The common symptoms of diabetes Going to the toilet a … Read more via...
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    General Health Study proposes five types of diabetes, not two – The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper

    Adults with diabetes could benefit from better treatment if the condition was categorized into five types, rather than just two. This is the conclusion of a new study published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. The research was … Read more via The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper –...
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    World A ‘paradigm shift’ in the diagnosis of diabetes: study – Yahoo News

    Scientists on Friday unveiled a revised classification for diabetes, one they said could lead to better treatments and help doctors more accurately predict life-threatening complications from the disease. There are five distinct types of diabetes that can occur in adulthood, rather than the...
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    Metro Diabetes is ‘five separate diseases’ – BBC News

    Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Could there be five types of diabetes rather than just two? Scientists say diabetes is five separate diseases, and treatment could be tailored to each form. Diabetes – or uncontrolled blood sugar levels – is normally split into type 1 and type … Read...
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    Metro The Link Between Diabetes And Carrots – The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper

    Having diabetes is such a big deal. You become restricted from eating some of your favourite meals and a little clumsiness or a cheat meal or fruit like a pineapple can trigger high sugar levels which might lead to health problems. This is … via The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper – Nigeria and...
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    Metro What are the signs and symptoms of diabetes? – Diabetes UK

    Are you worried that you, your child or someone you know, may have diabetes? Having some of the signs of diabetes doesn’t mean you definitely have the condition, but you should always contact your GP, just to make sure. The common symptoms of diabetes Going to the toilet a lot, … via...
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    10 Best Foods For Diabetes Patient

    The best foods for diabetes are most often whole foods that are not processed, such as fruits and vegetables. The foods below will also help you meet your nutritional needs as well as lower your risk of diabetes complications such as heart disease. You don't have to eat all of these foods, but...
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    Fatigue - 7 Possible Conditions Getting You Easily Tired

    Easy tiredness, also known as fatigue is a subjective feeling of exhaustion, weakness or low energy before, during or after carrying out routine activities. It's commonplace in our clinics to hear people lodge complaints like, 'I get easily tired these days doctor and I don't know why'. In fact...
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