Type 2 Diabetes

Adults who have diabetes are two times more likely to die from heart disease and stroke, and younger people with diabetes are at risk of earlier heart disease. 

The majority of patients with type 2 diabetes fail to maintain glycemic goals over time after initial success with standard interventions. 

A middle-aged woman, with mild obesity and type 2 diabetes, was hospitalized in the ICU, and the order on her chart was documented "Lispro 90 units at HS," then the "9" was crossed off and a "6" written above it....

Costs vs. Outcomes for Patients With Type 2 Diabetes: The issue of cost in healthcare is a central point in the discussion of the future of medicine. While much is made of the cost of end-of-life care, many of the dollars spent yearly are focused on the treatment of chronic diseases like diabetes. The estimated yearly cost of diabetes care was $245 billion in the U.S. in 2012, the last year for which numbers have been reported. $50 billion of that was related to prescription drug purchases.

Examining risk for type 2 in patients with genetic dyslipidemia conditions.

Part 1 of a series on a framework developed by Dr. Bradley Eilerman and Len Testa for recommending medications for treating patients with type 2 diabetes.

A thousand times today, in offices all over America, hospital patients will be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. When that happens, a healthcare provider has to make a treatment decision of enormous complexity, often with partial information to go on, and in the span of just a few minutes.

Could the visual disturbances that diabetes patients experience be prevented?

Three recent studies reveal insights into potential links between the gut microbiome and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).  

The importance of physical activity is often underestimated in patients at risk of or diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. 

Diabetes mellitus continues to grow as a global healthcare problem and is associated with significant microvascular and macrovascular complications.