Youth diabetes, pre-diabetes rates soar 
USA TODAY
The findings, reported in the journal Pediatrics, are "very concerning," says lead author Ashleigh May, an epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "To get ahead of this problem, we have to be incredibly aggressive and look ...
Nearly a quarter of teens diabetic or prediabetic, report says Washington Post (blog)
Nearly 1 in 4 US Teens Have Diabetes or Its Precursor TIME
Diabetes on the Rise Among Teenagers New York Times (blog)
Huffington Post 
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Diabetic retinopathy prevention program underway in Armenia 
PanARMENIAN.Net
In addition to free screening, diabetes patients receive educational brochures developed by Meghrigian Institute to increase patients' awareness on diabetes management and prevention of diabetic retinopathy. To date, the Meghrigian Institute has ...

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Childhood obesity contributes to rise of diabetes 
Canton Repository
By Lisa Reicosky The name becomes less accurate when you consider Type 2 diabetes in children is on the rise, fueled largely by a childhood obesity epidemic. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, childhood obesity has more than ...

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UnitedHealth Group and Comcast Diabetes Prevention Program Video-on-Demand ... 
MarketWatch (press release)
UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH) and Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCSA) (NASDAQ:CMCSK) announced they have met enrollment targets for an innovative pilot study to evaluate the effectiveness of using video on demand (VOD) to deliver the Diabetes Prevention ...
UnitedHealth, Comcast Try Video-on-Demand Programming To Prevent Diabetes Hartford Courant
Comcast: VOD series can help subscribers shed pounds FierceCable

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YMCA offers Diabetes Prevention Program 
East Valley Tribune
The Valley of the Sun YMCA organization, including the Ahwatukee Foothills Family YMCA, is offering the Diabetes Prevention Program to members and nonmembers who are overweight and determined to be at-risk for the disease or who have been diagnosed ...

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Targeting Diabetes Prevention Among Medicare Beneficiaries 
Kaiser Health News
Intervention and prevention programs for pre-diabetics could be a more effective means of care, Mawby said during a policy panel on Tuesday. ?The irony of the Medicare benefit for diabetes screening is you can have that screening once a year if you're ...

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23 percent of American teens have diabetes or at risk 
msnbc.com (blog)
The percent of US teens with diabetes is on the rise, a new study suggests. Between 1999 and 2008, the percentage of adolescents ages 12 to 19 with diabetes or prediabetes increased from 9 percent to 23 percent, the study found.

 

A Dire Sign Of The Obesity Epidemic: Teen Diabetes Soaring, Study Finds 
NPR (blog)
"It's concerning," says Ashleigh L. May of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, who led the study. Type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease, is a condition that until recently doctors almost never saw in kids.
New Data on Type 2 Diabetes Treatment Hive Health Media (blog)

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Let's Prevent Diabetes: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled ... 
7thSpace Interactive (press release)
The prevention of type 2 diabetes is a globally recognised health care priority, but there is a lack of rigorous research investigating optimal methods of translating diabetes prevention programmes, based on the promotion of a healthy lifestyle, ...

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American Diabetes Association Announces New Public Service Announcements for ... 
MarketWatch (press release)
"With nearly 79 million American adults at risk for type 2 diabetes, the new prevention PSAs are important because they will create greater awareness about the risk for type 2 diabetes," said Larry Hausner, MBA, Chief Executive Officer, ...
No Longer Just 'Adult-Onset' New York Times
Diabetes shrinks elderly brain Science Daily (press release)
More than 346 million people worldwide have diabetes Teatro Naturale

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