Author: Medshadow Staff

Over the past 7 years, the number of new diabetes cases reported has dropped, and by a substantial number. According to the NYTimes, “The rate of new cases fell by about a fifth from 2008 to 2014, according to researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the first sustained decline since the disease started to explode in this country about 25 years ago.” Researchers are not sure if the drop is because of efforts at prevention, or if the disease reached a peak and is now declining. –MedShadow Staff

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Dr. Sanjay Guptareports on a diabetes study that showed many benefits of losing weight even though improved heart health was not one of them. In a study, that seems flawed from our reading, the focus was to lower heart attacks in diabetics through weight loss. Since that direct correlation wasn’t established, the study was halted. However, in reading Dr. Gupta’s article, it seems that those in the intervention group received plenty of other benefits linked to the weight loss.

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