Metabolic Syndrome Greatly Raises Risk of Death
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NEW YORK  - People with metabolic syndrome  -- a cluster of conditions that can include problems with  weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar control --  are much more likely to die from heart disease and other causes  than those without the syndrome, new research shows.
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NEW YORK  - The prevalence of the metabolic  syndrome is increasing among U.S. adults, and will likely lead  to increases in diabetes and heart disease, results of a study  published in the October issue of Diabetes Care suggest.
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Very obese people are as unhealthy, and probably as likely to die, as patients with heart failure, US researchers have reported. A second
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A whopping 75 million Americans may have something called metabolic syndrome. How Big Pharma turned obesity into a desease and then invented the drugs to cure it. By Thomas Goetz from Wired magazine.
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LONDON: Civil servants with a low pay scale have a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes as compared to their high-paid counterparts, a study has revealed.
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Exercise is not enough to offset the increased death risk associated with being obese, research suggests. A study of more than 116,000 women nurses found physical activity did not totally compensate for the higher death risk associated with being obese.
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Middle age and elderly women whose diets include a lot of red meat appear to have an increased risk of developing diabetes. Dr. Simin Liu of Brigham and Women&#39;s Hospital in
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NEW YORK  - A new study suggests that teenagers with the breathing disorder sleep apnea may be at increased risk of developing metabolic syndrome -- a collection of risk factors for diabetes and heart disease.
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Being overweight boosts the risk of dying from diabetes and kidney disease but not cancer or heart disease, and carrying some extra pounds appears actually to protect against a host of other causes of death, federal researchers reported today.
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Findings from a new study  suggest that obesity per se is not a risk factor for organ  failure or death. However, the risk is increased with diabetes,  which often develops in people with a high body mass index  (BMI).
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Teenagers whose bodies do not process insulin properly have a higher risk of high blood pressure as adults.
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Add another cardiovascular problem to the list of life-threatening conditions associated with obesity: atrial fibrillation. The risk of this irregular heartbeat, which can lead to stroke and heart failure, is
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NEW YORK  - In patients with type 1 diabetes, excess body weight and fat seems to increase the risk of coronary heart disease. However, as weight and fat levels increase, the severity of heart disease lessens, researchers announced at the 67th Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association in Chicago.
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Obese individuals are at  increased risk for suffering a heart attack or other "acute  coronary syndrome" (ACS), but because they are treated more  aggressively than their lean counterparts, their outcomes are  actually better, new research suggests.
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Taking too much vitamin E has been linked to an increased death risk, according to research presented at the American Heart Association&#39;s annual scientific sessions in New Orleans.
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Diabetes is dangerous even before the disease becomes full-blown, boosting the risk of death from heart disease in its earliest form, Australian researchers said on Monday.
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NEW YORK  - The risk of having a heart attack or dying from heart-related causes is raised substantially for people who have suffered a stroke, even for those without high-risk features, according to researchers.