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Array of health threats to Native Hawaiians focus of $22.5M grant

Array of health threats to Native Hawaiians focus of $22.5M grant

  • September 21, 2022
  • UH News
Ola HAWAIʻI researchers are working to better understand the long-term impact of COVID, the role of exercise with type 2 diabetes and dietary impacts on the Native Hawaiian population.
$3.3M for game-changing type-2 diabetes study in Hawaiʻiʻs NHPI communities

$3.3M for game-changing type-2 diabetes study in Hawaiʻiʻs NHPI communities

  • August 10, 2021
  • UH News
The study involves a diverse multidisciplinary collaboration probing the socioecological determinants of diabetes risks in Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.
UH System health professionals chosen for national leadership program

UH System health professionals chosen for national leadership program

  • October 24, 2019
  • UH News
Seven UH faculty and four JABSOM professors’ projects regarding diabetes, homelessness and elderly health care will be funded through the Clinical Scholars Program.
Surprising link found between insulin resistance and avoiding Alzheimer’s

Surprising link found between insulin resistance and avoiding Alzheimer’s

  • July 18, 2019
  • UH News
Research led by Thomas Lee of the UH Office of Public Health Studies involved 1,544 Japanese men participating in Kuakini Honolulu-Asia Aging Study.
UH/MAʻO Farms data show 60% improvement in diabetes risk

UH/MAʻO Farms data show 60% improvement in diabetes risk

  • February 26, 2019
  • UH News
A UH Mānoa study, in partnership MAʻOFarms, shows promise that getting a community involved in preventing type 2 diabetes can reduce their disease risk.
New findings on type 2 diabetes and colorectal cancer survival rates

New findings on type 2 diabetes and colorectal cancer survival rates

  • March 15, 2018
  • UH News
UH researchers Yvette Amshoff, Gertraud Maskarinec and Andrew Grandinetti looked at 24 years of health data and found that patients who have type 2 diabetes in addition to other chronic diseases have a lower survival rate for colorectal cancer.
Diabetes center established at JABSOM with $11.2 million federal grant

Diabetes center established at JABSOM with $11.2 million federal grant

  • August 8, 2017
  • UH News
The grant will intensify Hawaiʻi-based research into a disease that currently affects 155,000 adults and children—1 in 9 individuals in Hawaiʻi.
UH Cancer Center researcher receives Fulbright Award

UH Cancer Center researcher receives Fulbright Award

  • July 7, 2017
  • UH News
The award will enable researcher Gertraud Maskarinec to research the relation of obesity, type 2 diabetes and breast cancer in Caucasian and Asian women.
New way to measure if people are pre-diabetic discovered

New way to measure if people are pre-diabetic discovered

  • October 30, 2015
  • UH News
University of Hawaii Cancer Center discovery may allow physicians to warn patients years before the onset of diabetes.
Continued reduction in diabetes development shown in 16-year study

Continued reduction in diabetes development shown in 16-year study

  • July 29, 2014
  • UH News
Increasing physical activity has prevented or delayed the development of Type 2 diabetes according to a national diabetes study.
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