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Tag: Diabetes
Precision health in practice: Using HealthKit to monitor patients’ blood-sugar levels
Imagine having to keep track of your diabetic son's constantly changing blood sugar levels by typing each individual reading into an email. Then, once in the …
A reminder before World Diabetes Day: “We need more people educated about the disease”
Bay Area native Anna Simos had always been the healthy one in her family — never a candy eater, she said — but, at 15, …
Can cute cat texts motivate patients to take their medication?
The right kind of motivation is key when you have a difficult or mundane task at hand. For example, when I wanted to learn Spanish, …
A conversation about the diabetes epidemic
On this morning’s KQED’s morning radio show, Forum, several doctors including Stanford’s Bryant Lin, MD, discussed how diabetes is affecting the health of millions of …
Taking breaks for physical activity may benefit children’s long-term health
Here's an eye-opening statistic: Children in the United States spend on average 6 hours per day sitting or reclining. As we head into the fall and winter …
A picture is worth a thousand words: Researchers use photos to see how Type 1 diabetes affects kids
The impact of Type 1 diabetes can be a trying and forceful one, especially for children. To better understand the disease's role in young patients' lives, Ashby Walker, …
Faulty fat cells may help explain how Type 2 diabetes begins
Why do some obese people develop Type 2 diabetes while others don’t? New evidence suggests the answer may lie just beneath the skin. A study …
New insulin-decreasing hormone discovered, named for goddess of starvation
Limos, the Greek goddess of starvation, must have relied on limostatin, the eponymous hormone recently discovered by Stanford researchers, to survive hunger. She was clearly …
The role of nutrition in diabetes prevention and management
Can certain diets help patients prevent or manage their diabetes? Which foods are best for diabetics and which ones should they avoid? If you increase …
The importance of regular exercise in delaying and treating diabetes
Looking for motivation to exercise regularly? Consider this statistic: People who engage in physical activity for seven hours a week have a 40 percent lower …
Patching up diabetic ulcers
Like the more than 29 million people in the U.S, my mother has diabetes. Her eldest sister and my maternal grandmother both died of complications …
A primer on preventing or delaying type 2 diabetes
Diabetes affects an estimated 29 million Americans, and one in four people don't know they have the disease, according to the latest data from the …
High blood sugar linked to reduced brain growth in children with Type 1 diabetes
Some areas of the brain grow more slowly in children with Type 1 diabetes than those without, according to findings published this week in Diabetes. Researchers …
Diabetes and nutrition: Healthy holiday eating tips, red meat and disease risk, and going vegetarian
Despite greater awareness about diabetes in recent years, a recent study found that nearly three in 10 Americans have the disease but don't know it. …
Diabetes and nutrition: Why healthy eating is a key component of prevention and management
The prevalence of type 2 diabetes is expected to rise sharply over the next three decades. Recent data from the Centers for Disease Control …