Tag: diabetes
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State says many screenings of Medicaid patients more than doubled after program was expanded under Obamacare
Countering assertions that Kentucky’s Medicaid expansion doesn’t guarantee health care, state officials have presented data showing that “Kentuckians on Medicaid were far more likely to get cancer screenings, physicals and...
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Insulin patch could take the place of injections for diabetes
In 2013, 10.6 percent of Kentucky adults had diabetes, a big increase from 2000, when 6.5 percent had the disease, according to the 2015 Kentucky Diabetes Report. In a few years, diabetics...
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As vacation season arrives, here are travel tips for diabetics
It’s vacation season. Traveling offers unique challenges for diabetics, but nothing that careful planning and a few precautions won’t overcome, says the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Image:...
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A looming danger: About 1 in 3 U.S. adults are pre-diabetic, but only about 11% say they have received such a diagnosis
Before Type 2 diabetes develops, most people experience what is called prediabetes, where the blood sugar levels are above normal, but below diabetic, Dr. Philip A. Kern, University of Kentucky...
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How do diet and exercise influence risk of diabetes? Diet seems more important
Many people think exercising and eating properly are interchangeable, but a paper by Edwards Weiss, associate professor of nutrition and dietetics at Saint Louis University, asserts that exercising and restricting diet results...
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One of every three U.S. adults have a combination of risk factors that increase their risk for heart disease and diabetes
More than one-third of adults in the U.S. have a combination of health conditions that put them at higher risk of heart disease and diabetes, and this condition affects nearly...
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New diabetes cases in expanded-Medicaid states much higher than other states; 46,000 new Ky. Medicaid clients got screened
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News New diabetes cases among poor Americans are much more numerous in Kentucky and other states that have embraced the Patient Protection and Affordable Care...
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Authors of The Great Diabetes Epidemic will talk on KET about its causes, myths, complications, treatment and prevention
Kentucky Health News The message that the authors of The Great Diabetes Epidemic: A Manifesto for Control and Prevention want readers to take from their book is that “diabetes is a...
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Beshear cites signs toward better health: kids are more active and getting more dental care; adults are getting more screenings
Kentucky Health News Kentucky is moving toward achieving the broad, ambitious goals for better health that Gov. Steve Beshear laid out when he started the “Kyhealthnow” initiative in February 2014,...
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KentuckyOne Health teaches diabetics to manage the disease
KentuckyOne Health has launched a new program to help Kentuckians with diabetes learn how to self-manage their disease, according to a news release. “Giving patients the tools and knowledge they...