Diabetics Benefit from Eating Fish

Eating more fish may lower diabetic patients’ risk of macroalbuminuria,new study findings suggest. The findings, which appear in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases(2008; published online ahead of print), focused on 22,384 men and women in Norwich, U.K.

Among 517 subjects who reported having diabetes, those who ate more than two portionsof fish a week had a 78% reduced risk of macroalbuminuria compared with thoseeating less than one portion a week.

From the December 01, 2008 Issue of Renal and Urology News