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Study conducted by NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) and WHO. Findings part of first global analysis of trends in both ...

Dietitians often field this question, especially in a diet culture that demonizes sweet stuff as a whole. Here’s what they ...

A diabetes diagnosis isn’t the same for everyone. While each type of diabetes is characterized by high blood sugar, type 1, ...

The number of people living with diabetes worldwide has quadrupled in the past two decades, with 830 million people diagnosed ...

As countries observe World Diabetes Day today, Thursday, November 14, 2024, the growing impact of the disease in Nigeria, along with the struggles of those affected and healthcare providers, has come ...

Fourteen percent of the world's people -- more than 800 million -- now have diabetes, a doubling of the global rate for the blood sugar disease ... countries where numbers of adults with diabetes ...

There are three types of diabetes: type 1 (usually childhood onset), type 2 (usually adult onset), and gestational (during ...

When it comes to assessing foods based on how they raise blood sugar, there is a tool called the glycemic index. The glycemic index assigns a number value to foods based on how quickly and how high ...