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Small Steps to Diabetes Prevention:
News in Health — Preventing Type 2 Diabetes, November 2005 issue of The NIH News in Health - Consumer Information Based on Research from the National Institutes of Health Bob Huber doesn't dwell on the time, about 10 years ago, when he found out he was likely to ...More…
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Are You at Risk for Diabetes and Prediabetes?
News in Health — Diabetes: Equal Opportunity Disease?, November 2005 issue of The NIH News in Health - Consumer Information Based on Research from the National Institutes of Health Some populations have higher rates of diabetes. African Americans, Hispanic ...More…
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Asian American Health: National Library of Medicine
National Library of Medicine — Asian Americans represent a large and rapidly growing segment of the U.S. population. A recent U.S. Census estimate puts their combined numbers at over 11 million people and predicts a better than tripling in population by 2050. They are ...More…
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Brugada syndrome
National Library of Medicine — Brugada syndrome is a condition that causes a disruption of the heart's normal rhythm. Specifically, this disorder can lead to uncoordinated electrical activity in the heart's lower chambers (ventricles), an abnormality called ventricular ...More…
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Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and Diabetes
Diabetes Information Clearinghouse — Home : Diabetes A-Z List of Topics and Titles : Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, and Diabetes Statistics related to diabetes and Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Diabetes in Asian and Pacific Islander Americans A report from the NDEP.More…
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Alcohol and Minorities: An Update
Institute of Alcohol Abuse — Patterns of alcohol use and its consequences vary widely among minority groups. Although more research is needed, evidence suggests that prevention and treatment efforts may be more effective when based on an understanding of the ethnic context ...More…
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Getting Tested for HIV
National Institutes of Health — Dr. Victoria Cargill of the Office of AIDS Research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) thinks although it's a good idea for everyone to know their HIV status, there are some people in particular who should consider getting tested: No ...More…
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HIV Infection in Minority Populations
National Institute of Allergy — HIV/AIDS continues to disproportionately affect minorities. Racial and ethnic minority populations in the United States, primarily African Americans and Hispanics, constitute 58 percent of the more than 928,188 cases of AIDS reported to the ...More…
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Cervical Cancer: What Vietnamese Women Should Know
National Institutes of Health (Cancer) — I learned about cervical cancer when my friend died from it. After that, the women in my family started to talk about this disease. My family is religious. My aunt said, "We cannot stop fate. What will be, will be." In some cases, I think this ...More…