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International Scientific Summit Spotlights Surgical Treatment of Diabetes and New Directions for Research

On March 28-30, 2011 leading experts across multiple disciplines convened at the 2nd World Congress on Interventional Therapies for Type 2 Diabetes (2nd WCITD) to review the latest research on bariatric surgery as a treatment option.

Chronic-Non-Communicable-Diseases-A-Global-Challenge

Dear President Barroso, Chronic non-communicable diseases account for 86% of deaths in Europe. They include heart disease, stroke, hypertension, diabetes, kidney disease, cancers, respiratory and liver diseases.

Health As An Engine Of Economic Growth

  Below are summarized the main results of the work of Cer-NIB (European Research Centre), seeking to offer  multidisciplinary and integrated relationships among health care spending, innovation and adoption technology, state of health of the population, economic growth and prosperity.

Budget Crisis: Implications On Health And Social Policies

…a reduction of € 85 per person in social and health spending is linked to 2.8% mortality by alcohol and of 1.2% mortality by cardiovascular disease…

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The Consumption Of Red Meat Increases The Risk Of Stroke?

The study shows once again how important is a balanced diet and how it is important individual's role in prevention of cardiovascular diseases.

A Metabolic Approach To Non Communicable Diseases - NCD

..scientists are even more understanding that many metabolic patho-mechanisms and many metabolic modulators are in common among Non Communicable Diseases…

Television And Mortality?

The importance of making regular physical activity is universally recognized as a deterrent to cardiovascular disease (from Emmanuel Stamatakis, Mark Hamer, David W. Dunstan: Screen-Based Entertainment Time, All-Cause Mortality, and Cardiovascular Events JACC 2011; 57(3):292-299)

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Non Communicable Diseases: Common Goal, Common Effort, Common Approach?

An alliance among health organizations, health policy  decision makers, scientists,  and citizens in order  to work in partnership to prevent and control the 4 non-communicable diseases- cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancers, and chronic respiratory diseases-,  and the 4 shared risk factors - tobacco use, physical inactivity, unhealthy diets, and the harmful use of alcohol

Mediterranean Diet: A Still Open Debate

What about the bio-chemical, bio-historical, and bio-social grounds of the nutrition? What about the clinical evidence of Mediterranean diet? What about the alcohol intake factor in the diet?

Biomarkers In Chronic Diseases: Diabetes, Obesity, Cardiovascular Diseases, And More…

State of the art, opinions, challenges from the 4th International Symposium on Integrated Biomarkers – Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 4-6 May 2010. In the conference, scientists coming from Arabian Peninsula, India, USA, Europe, Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea, Tunisia, Somalia, and other Countries convened to.....

Barriers to Cardio Vascular Disease Prevention

Numerous barriers to CVD prevention and management remain to be conquered, both in the individual patient and in the at-risk population as a whole.

Hypercholesterolemia And Cardio Vascular Diseases

Is the effective management of hypercholestelomia still an open question?

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