Press Association Friday August 25, 2006 5:58 PM Millions more adults and children will be obese by 2010 unless dramatic action is taken to halt the trend, figures showed. A third of adults and a fifth of all children will be obese, leading to greater suffering from cancer, heart disease and type 2 diabetes. More…
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Diabetes Brings Earlier Heart Disease, Death
FRIDAY, June 30 (HealthDay News) — People with type 2 diabetes can expect to suffer from fatal and non-fatal heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular events about 15 years earlier than non-diabetics, a new study shows. “The rates are consistently higher,” said lead researcher Dr. Gillian Booth, an adjunct scientist at the Institute of Clinical…