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Obesity and diabetes each double the risk of heart failure – patients with both conditions ‘very difficult’ to treat (News-Medical-Net)

May 31st, 2009

The twin epidemics of obesity and type 2 diabetes will continue to fuel an explosion in heart failure, already the world’s most prevalent chronic cardiovascular disease, according to John McMurray, professor of cardiology at the Western Infirmary, Glasgow, and President of the Heart Failure Association. He reported that around one-third of patients with heart failure have evidence of diabetes, …

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Obesity, Diabetes Double Risk Of HF (redOrbit)

May 31st, 2009

Patients with both conditions ‘very difficult’ to treatThe twin epidemics of obesity and type 2 diabetes will continue to fuel an explosion in heart failure, already the world’s most prevalent chronic cardiovascular disease, according to John McMurray, professor of cardiology at the Western Infirmary, Glasgow, and President of the Heart Failure Association.

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New “microcapsules” Put More Medication Into The Bloodstream To Treat Disease (Medical News Today)

May 31st, 2009

Scientists are reporting a potential solution to a problem that limits the human body’s ability to absorb and use medications for heart disease, Type-2 diabetes, cancer and other conditions. It is a “nano-hybrid microcapsule” that enables the stomach to absorb more of these so-called “poorly-soluble” medicines.

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State pediatricians meet to confront growing childhood diabetes epidemic (Daily Herald)

May 31st, 2009

Cynthia Mears has seen firsthand how a child’s poor diet can become a catalyst for developing diabetes later in life.

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Have Diabetes? Are You Sure? (The Lakeland Ledger)

May 31st, 2009

Vonsheila Sapp wasn’t worried about high blood sugar when she sat down for a blood-glucose screening at a health fair this month at the Dundee Community Center.

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