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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Warm weather brings increased health risks for people with diabetes (USA)
Spiking temperatures and increased exposure to the sun can pose particularly dangerous health risks for the nearly 26 million Americans living with diabetes. With temperatures expected to rise to record levels across the nation, experts caution that people with diabetes must take extra care to avoid serious, heat-related conditions.
http://www.crestonnewsadvertiser.com/articles/ara/2011/07/13/8058980101/index.xml
Indonesians Waking Up to the Threat of Diabetes (Indonesia)
Life seemed to be over for Hendra Gunawan, 46, when a doctor told him last year that his left leg had to be amputated due to diabetes. A minor cut on his left foot had refused to heal and later developed gangrene.
http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/lifeandtimes/indonesians-waking-up-to-the-threat-of-diabetes/452680
The fight against diabetes (Australia)
REPRESENTIVE rugby player Justin Brown is in best form of his sporting life but off-field he is adjusting to a shock health scare. In January, the 29-year-old was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Mr Brown said he had no inkling he had the disease which doctors believe he may have had for two years.
http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2011/07/14/173761_local-news.html
Coping with diabetes big learning curve for family (Ireland)
BEFORE her daughter was diagnosed with type-1 diabetes, Skerries mum Gwen Peters admits that she just thought that 'diabetes was diabetes'. Now a year since 10year-old Jocelyn was told she had the disease, Gwen says she realises she was not the only one that was confused about the condition.
http://www.fingal-independent.ie/lo...es-big-learning-curve-for-family-2820045.html
Spiking temperatures and increased exposure to the sun can pose particularly dangerous health risks for the nearly 26 million Americans living with diabetes. With temperatures expected to rise to record levels across the nation, experts caution that people with diabetes must take extra care to avoid serious, heat-related conditions.
http://www.crestonnewsadvertiser.com/articles/ara/2011/07/13/8058980101/index.xml
Indonesians Waking Up to the Threat of Diabetes (Indonesia)
Life seemed to be over for Hendra Gunawan, 46, when a doctor told him last year that his left leg had to be amputated due to diabetes. A minor cut on his left foot had refused to heal and later developed gangrene.
http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/lifeandtimes/indonesians-waking-up-to-the-threat-of-diabetes/452680
The fight against diabetes (Australia)
REPRESENTIVE rugby player Justin Brown is in best form of his sporting life but off-field he is adjusting to a shock health scare. In January, the 29-year-old was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Mr Brown said he had no inkling he had the disease which doctors believe he may have had for two years.
http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2011/07/14/173761_local-news.html
Coping with diabetes big learning curve for family (Ireland)
BEFORE her daughter was diagnosed with type-1 diabetes, Skerries mum Gwen Peters admits that she just thought that 'diabetes was diabetes'. Now a year since 10year-old Jocelyn was told she had the disease, Gwen says she realises she was not the only one that was confused about the condition.
http://www.fingal-independent.ie/lo...es-big-learning-curve-for-family-2820045.html