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 | | MAY 07, 2008:
Mothers' High Normal Blood Sugar Levels Place Infants at Risk for Birth Problems |
| | Pregnant women with blood sugar levels in the higher range of normal — but not high enough to be considered diabetes — are more likely than women with lower blood sugar levels to give birth to babies at risk for many of the same problems seen in babies born to women with diabetes during pregnancy, according to a study funded in large part by the National Institutes of Health.
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| | MAY 05, 2008:
Kidney Disease Substantially Worsens in a Fourth of African Americans despite Therapy for Hypertension |
| | The best available treatment for chronic kidney disease from high blood pressure did not keep the disease from substantially worsening in about a fourth of African-Americans studied, according to long-term results of a National Institutes of Health study published April 28, 2008, in the Archives of Internal Medicine .
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| | MAY 01, 2008:
Studies Test New Approaches to Islet Transplantation |
| | Researchers from 11 medical centers in the United States, Canada, Sweden, and Norway have begun testing new approaches to transplanting clusters of insulin-producing islets in adults with difficult-to-control type 1 diabetes. The clinical studies, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will determine whether changes to current methods of islet transplantation lead to improved, long-lasting control of blood glucose with fewer side effects.
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