"Diabetes in patients with HIV" The Netherland Journal of Medicine
"As HIV management has become more successful during the past years, non-communicable diseases have become more prevalent among HIV-infected individuals. As a result, more HIV-infected patients die of cardiovascular diseases, with diabetes being one of the main risk factors. This study evaluates screening and management of diabetes among HIV-infected patients in a university hospital in the Netherlands" Click here to read the full article Source- Roerink, M. E., et al. "Diab
At 45 You Have 50% Chances Of Pre-Diabetes
"A research in Netherlands has come up with the finding that half of 45-year-olds are in the process of becoming what is called pre-diabetic soon. This means that these people will show a blood sugar level higher than normal which is usually asymptomatic and is technically called pre-diabetes. Despite the fact that impaired glucose metabolism would not manifest into symptoms, people with the condition should get themselves regularly tested (preferably every year) to keep a tr
"DIABETES COULD AFFECT ONE IN THREE DUTCH PEOPLE"
"A third of Dutch will get type 2 diabetes at some stage in their life. Almost half of the Dutch population will suffer from the preliminary phase of the disease, so-called pre-diabetes. One in eleven will have to use insulin. This is according to a large-scale study done by scientists at Erasmus MC, NOS reports. These researchers tracked the health of 10 thousand people age 45 and older in the Rotterdam district Ommoord for 14 years, with the help of Rotterdam Study. Accord
