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Diabetes and metabolic syndrome

Is diabetes preventable?
Type 2 diabetes is a major risk factor for heart disease.  Recent evidence suggests that as much as 90% of this form of diabetes is due to lifestyle or behavioral choices, and is thus potentially preventable.

Metabolic syndrome X
This constellation of metabolic disturbances, all related to insulin resistance and thus to type 2 diabetes, is growing much more prevalent in our society.  Metabolic syndrome, like type 2 diabetes, is largely preventable - and accounts for a lot of heart disease.

Metabolic syndrome is deadlier than we thought
Recent evidence suggests that this prevalent problem (affecting about one in three adult Americans) causes even more death and disability from heart disease than previously suspected.

A warning for diabetics with heart failure
A commonly used drug combination is now known to pose special hazards for patients with diabetes and heart failure. 

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