Higher education tied to rare form of diabetes

People who attend college may be at greater risk of developing a less common form of diabetes associated with autoimmunity, new study findings suggest.
Among more than 56,000 adults living in Norway, those who reached university were nearly twice as likely as adults who did not finish high school to develop autoimmune diabetes – an adult form of the disease similar to the type 1 diabetes that typically manifests in childhood. Clearly, higher education itself does not increase the risk of autoimmune diabetes, study author Lisa Olsson of the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden told Reuters Health. Rather, these results suggest that people who go to university have some other factor in their lives that predisposes them to this type of diabetes, she explained. Subjects with high education may have a different lifestyle (or) be exposed to other environmental factors than people with low education, which may increase their risk, Olsson said in an e-mail. She added that she and her colleagues used statistical tools to eliminate the influence of traditional risk factors – such as a family history of diabetes, obesity, smoking and lack of exercise – from the results, published in Diabetes Care. Other environmental factors must be involved in the explanation of these associations, Olsson noted. Furthermore, the risk of developing autoimmune diabetes was relatively low – out of more than 56,000 adults, only 122 were diagnosed with autoimmune diabetes. In contrast, more than 1,500 developed the more common form of the disease, type 2, which is closely related to obesity.In autoimmune diabetes, the immune system destroys beta cells, which are responsible for producing insulin. When diagnosed in children, it is called type 1 diabetes. In some cases, the loss of beta cells progresses slowly, causing the disease to appear for the first time in adults, when it is described as latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA). Up to 12% of adults newly diagnosed with diabetes have the LADA form of the disease.Previous research has found that children from higher socioeconomic backgrounds appear to be more likely to develop type 1 diabetes. This study – which reviewed data collected from 56,296 people over 24 years — suggests that the link between higher education and autoimmune diabetes is present in adults, as well.One possible explanation for the link between LADA and higher education, Olsson noted, is that adults who have the means to attend university may experience fewer infections in childhood, which some researchers suspect predisposes children to type 1 diabetes.

What is cooking between Sonam and Abhay?

MUMBAI: The room was filled up with loud bursts of laughter when after a sudden pause the lollipop girl said, No, he’s not my type.

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Sherlock Holmes” Beats Out “Avatar” at Box Office

Sherlock Holmes” Beats Out “Avatar” at Box Office, British director Guy Ritchie’s “Sherlock Holmes” set a Christmas Day sales record at the box office in North America, taking a narrow lead over last weekend’s champ, “Avatar,” according to early estimates.
“Sherlock Holmes,” earned $24.9 million during its first day of release while “Avatar” earned $23.5 million on Friday. The record for a Christmas Day opening was set last year when “Marley and Me” launched with $14.4 million.

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Sherlock Holmes” Beats Out “Avatar” at Box Office was first posted on December 27, 2009 at 6:54 pm.

Rachael Ray Fhm 2003 Photo Shoot

Rachael Ray Fhm 2003 Photo Shoot, Here are the pictures from the Rachel Ray 2003 FHM Photo Shoot. Rachel Ray says of her 2003 FHM photo shoot that she has no regrets.

Rachel Ray speaks about the FHM photos in an  Nightline interview that will air tonight. Ray says of the 2003 FHM pictures:

“I think I was 35 at the time. And I thought about it for a while, and I said, ‘You know what? This magazine has as young as 17-, 18-year-olds in hottie bikinis, and these are all actresses, models, pin-up girls. I don’t belong to any even remote club of theirs.’

“And I thought, ‘If I’m gutsy enough to do this, this is a good thing for everybody. This is the everywoman, here she is,’. And I did it, and it was the most scared I’ve ever been, and I wouldn’t change a thing. I’d do it again tomorrow.”

“If you spend so much time thinking about the people who dislike what it is you’re doing, you’re doing a disservice to the people that employ you. I’m not employed by those people. I work for the people that want the type of food I write [about], the type of food we share with people.”

Ray says still can’t deal with how much money she makes. Some estimates put it in excess of $18 million.

“It makes my stomach flip. I’m not comfortable with it … because I don’t like to think of my life as that far away from me. People that make that kind of money — it’s just too foreign of an idea. Says Ray, “I’m not a chef. I haven’t created any new technique in the kitchen. I’m not a rocket scientist. I think I’m good at writing accessible, fun, and affordable meals for the average American family.

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Rachael Ray Fhm 2003 Photo Shoot was first posted on December 27, 2009 at 8:33 pm.