They focus on asthma, obesity, Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, prostate cancer and immune function.
Other studies have focused on specific conditions affecting the most Americans, things such as cardiovascular disease, obesity, type 2 diabetes and depression.
Experts believe that, as Floel's study suggests, increased inflammation and a drop in insulin sensitivity (which is known as insulin resistance) may help explain why obesity and type 2 diabetes have been linked to worse mental performance and a greater risk of Alzheimer's disease.
For example, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a community dealing with an epidemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes that has the highest rate of cardiovascular disease deaths in the nation, the award will help 1, 600 physicians and other providers participate in a new community-wide health information system that will help them better monitor and improve care transitions as patients move from one care setting to another.
Because of the linkage between obesity and type-2 diabetes, the disease is sometimes patronisingly treated as a fringe issue another problem for those poor, backwards Southerners.
People who have had obesity-related type 2 diabetes for years have been cured, at least temporarily, by keeping to an extreme, low-calorie, diet for two months, scientists report today.
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He said this was a "first step" towards "eventually using these bacteria as prevention or treatment of obesity and Type-2 diabetes" and that some form of bacteria-based therapy would be used "in the near future".
In Type 2 diabetes, obesity leads the body to be less sensitive to insulin, and to produce less of it after eating.
Chronically ill adults are defined as those with at least one of the following conditions: depression, type 2 diabetes, obesity and heart disease.
However, unlike smoking, sedentary lifestyles lead to more than 40 medically recognised chronic diseases, such as coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity, mental illness, dementia, some cancers.
In adults, the majority of new cases will be Type 2 diabetes -- an illness associated with obesity, physical inactivity, family history of diabetes, and older age.
Although genetics plays a part, obesity is a major reason people develop type 2 diabetes.
About 260, 000 working days are in Northern Ireland due to people staying off work with obesity-related conditions, such as type 2 diabetes even backache.
By contrast, the rate of obesity -- a leading cause of type 2 diabetes in this age group -- was largely flat over the same time period, as previous CDC reports have shown.
Also of concern are rising health-care costs, as obesity is linked with costly chronic conditions such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease.
It was also unlikely to be have any therapeutic benefits for those with type 2 diabetes, mainly associated with obesity, as these patients still make insulin.
Obesity, a major driver of heart disease and type 2 diabetes, as well as many other nasty problems, accounts for 10% of all health care costs.
Obesity and a sedentary lifestyle are known to increase the risk of developing type 2, and the precipitous rise of diabetes in America is largely linked to the rise in obesity.
Although obesity is a risk factor, not all people with type 2 diabetes are overweight.
Such patients are at high risk of death due to obesity-related illnesses, such as heart disease and type 2 diabetes.
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Many people with type 2 diabetes are also obese, and obesity is linked to a greater risk of some types of cancer.
We saw the numbers on the economics of what obesity is costing us today, but understand with type-2 diabetes emerging earlier and earlier in life, we got to get our hands around this.
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One in every 400 children has type 1 diabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and children are more frequently developing type 2 diabetes, normally an adult disease linked to obesity.
Obesity and the state of being overweight substantially raises their risk of morbidity from hypertension, dyslipidemia, type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke, gallbladder disease, osteoarthritis, sleep apnea and respiratory problems, and endometrial, breast, prostate, and colon cancers.
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