18th October 2011
The A1C test is defined as: A test that measures how much glucose has been sticking during the past 3-4 months to hemoglobin, the substance in the red blood cells that carries oxygen to the cells of the body. It can also be used to give you an idea about ...
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03rd October 2011
In 1912, a Japanese doctor named Hashimoto Hakaru described a disease that for hundreds of people, was misdiagnosed as depression, PMS, chronic fatigue syndrome, or fibromyalgia. But the disease wasn't any of these things. Instead, it was a type of thyroi...
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21st September 2011
When you hear the words Hashimoto's Disease and Hyperthyroidism what are they talking about? Well, Hashimoto was a Japanese surgeon. He was born in 1881 and died in 1934. The disease that was named after him is a chronic thyroiditis. It is also a common c...
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21st September 2011
Type 2 diabetes has become such a common disease among Americans these days that there have many write-ups in the form of books and websites online. So many people are diagnosed with this death-threatening disease, and the ones who find out they have this...
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19th September 2011
Over 150 million people have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in the United States. What's the reason for such a large amount of people having the same disease? What do they have in common? Mostly, it's the American diet that is the culprit. Some say t...
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23rd August 2011
Research has shown that people with diabetes are more prone to gum disease and dental problems than those who don’t. A strong connection has been made between diabetes and dental problems, which cannot be ignored.
Periodontitis is a severe form of gum...
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23rd August 2011
The thyroid is a butter fly shaped, small gland that is located in the lower region of the neck. The function of the thyroid is secreting hormones. The main hormones that are secreted by this gland include T3 also known as triiodothyronine, and T4, also k...
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22nd August 2011
Getting to know the Thyroid Hormones
TSH stands for Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone and is also known as Thyrotropin. TSH is released by the pituitary gland to stimulate the enzyme thyroid peroxidase (TPO). TPO is made in the thyroid gland and combines iod...
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17th August 2011
Diabetes has turned into an epidemic in this country. There are many reasons for this. The first reason is our modern diet, which includes many processed foods. Another major contributing factor is that people are more sedentary than they have been in the...
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15th August 2011
When a person has an under active thyroid, which is a result from insufficient thyroid hormone production, this is diagnosed as hypothyroidism. Typically, this condition creates symptoms which include weight gain, fatigue, constipation, low blood pressur...
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09th June 2011
The prevalence rate, which is defined as the total number of cases of the disease in the population at a given time, or the total number of cases in the population, divided by the number of individuals in the population, of type 2 diabetes in the US is ap...
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09th June 2011
The Thyroid gland is the butterfly shaped endocrine gland that is located in the front of the neck. When the thyroid gland doesn't function properly, it can cause a lot of trouble in the body. This important gland is responsible for regulating metabolism...
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19th May 2011
According to the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE), nearly 10 percent of Americans suffer from thyroid related diseases. Low thyroid condition is often a result of hypothyroidism, which is caused due to insufficient synthesis of the...
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12th May 2011
For such a tiny gland it plays a very huge roll in the body. Thyroid is Greek for shield, after the shape of the cartilage. This particular gland regulates how rapidly the body uses energy, produces proteins, and influences the sensitivity the body should...
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