Veterans compensated diabetes, heart disease

Veterans compensated diabetes, heart disease
The list of “presumptive” medical problems has grown to include seven ailments with only a “limited or suggestive” link to Agent Orange – a link that scientists said could be influenced by other factors, such as chance or bias in scientific studies. Those include diabetes along with prostate cancer and …
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Diabetes and depression ail Utahns

Diabetes and depression ail Utahns
Diabetics make up a sliver of the population, but they cost insurance companies the most to cover, according to new data released Wednesday. And the top drug prescribed to insured Utahns is anti-depressants, with depression another disease that is driving up health care costs.
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Major depression more than doubles risk of dementia among adults with diabetes

Major depression more than doubles risk of dementia among adults with diabetes
Adults who have both diabetes and major depression are more than twice as likely to develop dementia, compared to adults with diabetes only, according to a study published in the recent Journal of General Internal Medicine.
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Stress Peptide and Receptor May Have Role in Diabetes

Stress Peptide and Receptor May Have Role in Diabetes
The neuropeptide corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) makes cameo appearances throughout the body, but its leading role is as the opening act in the stress response, jump-starting the process along the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have found that CRF also plays a [...]

Stress as Related to Diabetes and Hypertension. the Role of Antioxidants

CHAPTER ONE1.0 INTRODUCTIONLife styles of people have dramatically changed over the years and this has invariably increased the risk of diabetes and hypertension.
1.1 GENERAL PERSPECTIVEThe cause of most disease cannot be enumerated, but factors that enhance the effect of the disease can be typically analyzed. People from different backgrounds have different life styles that can [...]