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...screening, at least, could get a whole lot cheaper and faster. A team of U.S. researchers publishing this week in the medical journal Lancet finds that simple, inexpensive tests for cardiovascular risk factors - performed in less than 10 minutes, using a scale, a tape measure and a blood-pressure check - are every bit as effective at determining heart-disease risk as more expensive procedures involving laboratory-based tests. It's not exactly a do-it-yourself kit, but it can help doctors screen patients more quickly, leading to potentially more effective treatment - in both the developed and developing world...
...body, for example, have a lower incidence of type 1 diabetes than relatively sunless places. Studies have also shown that new cases of type 1 diabetes crop up more often in winter, when there is less sunshine all around, than in summer. In addition, says Zipitis, when doctors check vitamin D blood levels of newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes patients, they are generally lower than average. "In the U.K. and other European countries, we haven't got the right UV radiation for most of the year," he says, adding that vitamin D deficiency is a re-emerging problem...
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...have been in love with Clooney since I first saw him on ER. How can I get him to come to my house and check my carbon monoxide alarm? Nancy Harris, NEW YORK CITY...
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