Friday, July 18, 2008

Type 2 Diabetes: Culturally-tailored Education Can Improve Blood Sugar Control

ScienceDaily (July 18, 2008) — Using community-based health advocates, delivering information within same-gender groups or adapting dietary and lifestyle advice to fit a particular community's likely diet can help people with type 2 diabetes control their blood sugar levels, certainly for up to six months, following health education. This conclusion was reached by a team of Cochrane Researchers after they considered the data in 11 trials that involved 1,603 people.

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Mom's diabetes tied to early diabetes in offspring

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Babies who are exposed to mom's diabetes and obesity while in the womb are at increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes in adolescence, according to new research.
To prevent "youth-onset" type 2 diabetes, "we may need to take a life course approach, targeting, in addition to childhood obesity, the increasing number of women with pregnancies complicated by obesity and diabetes," researchers conclude

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