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Posted on Feb 18, 2004, 6 a.m.
By Bill Freeman
ISLAMABAD: Being physically fit may help prevent the development of diabetes in healthy women, according to findings presented this week at the American Public Health Association 's 131st Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Jason M. Wallace, and others from The Cooper Institute in Dallas, examined the association between fitness and type 2 diabetes in 4,984 women participating in the Aerobic Center Longitudinal Study (ACLS).
ISLAMABAD: Being physically fit may help prevent the development of diabetes in healthy women, according to findings presented this week at the American Public Health Association 's 131st Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Jason M. Wallace, and others from The Cooper Institute in Dallas, examined the association between fitness and type 2 diabetes in 4,984 women participating in the Aerobic Center Longitudinal Study (ACLS). "This study has been going on for more than 30 years," Wallace told Reuters Health. "We have already looked at men, fitness, and risk of developing diabetes and needed to look at it in women.
Source: http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=55055
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