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

September 21, 2022
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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

August 10, 2021
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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

October 24, 2019
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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

July 18, 2019
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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

February 26, 2019
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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

March 15, 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Increasing physical activity has prevented or delayed the development of Type 2 diabetes according to a national diabetes study.