Type 2 Diabetes

“An interaction of genetic risk with physical activity on incident type 2 diabetes that appears to be driven principally through genetic risk to insulin resistance.”…  Yann C. Klimentidis, PhD, of the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health in Tucson, and colleagues wrote, “It has been …

No effect of tight glycemic control on mortality or major cardiovascular events in long-term follow-up of the ADVANCE trial….  The Action in Diabetes and Vascular Disease: Preterax and Diamicron Modified Release Controlled Evaluation (ADVANCE study) assessed the effects of routine blood-pressure lowering and strict glucose control in a broad cross …

Low HDL increases the risk of heart disease but does it also increase the risk of cancer?…

Eating a lot of higher fat dairy products seemed to lower the risk of type 2 diabetes development by up to 23%…. 

Overweight diabetic patients who lose weight by dieting and increasing their physical activity can reduce their health care costs by an average of around $600 per year…. 

This study showed that fenofibrate was very effective in lowering total, LDL, non-HDL cholesterol significantly in female diabetic patients compared to male patients…. 

In patients with type 2 diabetes, LX4211 produced greater dose-ranging effects on HbA1c than on glucosuria…. 

A long-term UK study revealed that in order to prevent poorer health outcomes, changes need to be made to the current way of diagnosing patients with type 2 diabetes…. 

Metformin seems to have positive effects on body composition, insulin sensitivity, and glucose homeostasis in patients recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes…. 

About one in every 1,000 individuals carries a variant in PPARG, which is treatable with tailored pharmacotherapy….