December 26, 2008
Not many studies have been conducted on exercise and type 2 diabetes prevention in black women. But a recent publication in the American Journal of Epidemiology shows that several brisk walks per week can help to lower black women's type 2 diabetes risk. Julie Palmer of Boston University and her colleagues reviewed data from the Black [...]
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December 8, 2008
In several past posts, I've blogged about genetics and type 2 diabetes. Now more research finds a possible connection between the disease and a gene responsible for our internal 'clock.' Published online on December 7th in Nature Genetics, an international group of scientists revealed the results of studying ten genome-wide association scans covering over 36,000 people of [...]
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