diabetes – University of Hawaiʻi System News

New findings on type 2 diabetes and colorectal cancer survival rates

March 15, 2018

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

August 8, 2017

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

July 7, 2017

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

October 30, 2015

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

July 29, 2014

Increasing physical activity has prevented or delayed the development of Type 2 diabetes according to a national diabetes study.