Tag: Diabetes
‘82,000 women die from diabetes annually in Pakistan’
KARACHI: Eminent healthcare specialist Professor Dr Zaman Sheikh revealed on Saturday that an estimated 82,000 women die from diabetes and its related complications in...
Omega-6 could lower type 2 diabetes risk by 35 per cent
Researchers suggest that omega-6 fatty acids, which are found in soybean oil, could lower the risk of type 2 diabetes.
Eating a diet rich in...
Heart attack risk due to loss of small blood vessels around...
Diabetes damages the small blood vessels around the heart, and this might explain the link to heart attack, a new research suggests.
The new study...
Diabetes spreading at alarming rate in Pakistan: Int’l conference
Diabetes is spreading at an alarming proportion in Pakistan and there were currently more than 7 million people suffering from the disease, while 3...
Fawad Khan reveals he is suffering from diabetes
Along with being blessed with drool-worthy looks, actor Fawad Khan is a great actor too. His performance in ‘Kapoor & Sons (Since 1921)’ has...
Khattak makes exercise compulsory for students to ward off diabetes
Directs to launch awareness campaign for educating people about healthy lifestyles
The Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Pervez Khattak on Tuesday stressed the need for...
About half of US adults are diabetic or pre-diabetic: study
Approximately half of the US adult population has diabetes or is pre-diabetic, although prevalence of the disease appears to be leveling off after decades...
Type-1 Diabetes breakthrough could mean the end of Insulin injections
Scientists may have discovered a method of treating type 1 diabetes that could mean the end of insulin injections. They say the treatment, having...
Women with diabetes at higher heart disease risk: study
Women with diabetes are 44 percent more likely to develop coronary heart disease (CHD) than men with diabetes, a large global study has revealed.
"Taken...
‘Mothers prone to diabetes in second pregnancy’
Paying tribute to mothers, health experts advised mothers to take special care of their health as a healthy mother forms a healthy society. Diabetes...
Fasting is not that easy for diabetics
Doctors have warned diabetics to take extra care of their health during Ramadan while fasting.
Emirates Diabetes Association Head and Endocrinologist Dr Abdul Razzaq Al...
Too much red meat can make you diabetic
Eating more red meat over time is associated with an increased risk of type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), according to a new study. An Pan,...
Proper blood test only mode to diagnose diabetes: Experts
Experts on Friday urged the masses to realise the fact that diabetes, a fast emerging hormonal disorder in the country, could only be diagnosed...
Diet soda bigger diabetes threat than sugary stuff
Sugar-packed soda has been linked to a boosted diabetes risk—but it turns out the diet version may pose an even bigger threat. Researchers tracked...
Diabetes, smoking, hypertension major causes of heart attack
A medical research on cardiac complications declared diabetes, smoking and hypertension the major causes of heart attacks in Pakistan. A four year study conducted...
Eating strawberries prevents heart disease, diabetes: study
Strawberries, the traditional summer treat, have unexpected health benefits of preventing development of heart disease and diabetes, says a study.
University of Warwick scientists...
Walk a lot and have lower risk of diabetes
Among people with low physical activity and a high risk of diabetes, those who walk more throughout the day are less likely to actually...
