Tag: diabetes

• Tuesday, July 23rd 2013 - 17:22 UTC

  Cardiovascular diseases remain number one cause of death, says WHO

  

  Cardiovascular diseases remain the number one cause of death throughout the world, and killed nearly 17 million people in 2011, that is 3 in every 10 deaths. Of these, 7 million people died of ischemic heart disease and 6.2 million from stroke, reports the World Health Organization.

• Sunday, February 5th 2012 - 08:02 UTC

  Added sugar and sweeteners are “health risks as serious as alcohol and tobacco”

  

  US experts have argued that sugars and sweeteners added to foods pose such a serious health risk that they should be controlled in the same way that alcohol and tobacco are, according to commentary in the journal Nature.

• Monday, November 14th 2011 - 16:38 UTC

  Silent killer diabetes strikes 336 million people and keeps advancing

  

  Diabetes will strike one in 10 adults by 2030, hampering economic growth in the world's fastest-growing economies as it kills people in their most productive years, according to a report released on World’ Diabetes Day.

• Thursday, September 22nd 2011 - 08:31 UTC

  UN launches all-out attack on non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and cancer

  

  The United Nations launched on Monday an all-out attack on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as cancer and diabetes with a summit meeting devoted to curbing the factors, like tobacco and alcohol use, behind the often preventable scourge that causes 63% of all deaths.

• Tuesday, September 20th 2011 - 08:39 UTC

  UN launches all-out attack on non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and cancer

  

  The United Nations launched on Monday an all-out attack on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as cancer and diabetes with a summit meeting devoted to curbing the factors, like tobacco and alcohol use, behind the often preventable scourge that causes 63% of all deaths.

• Wednesday, March 2nd 2011 - 03:51 UTC

  Diabetes has reached epidemic level worldwide warn US surgeons

  

  People with diabetes in the United States and several other countries do not get effective treatment to control their disease, US researchers said, and health insurance, not personal wealth, plays a big role in determining which diabetics get good care.