Have you ever had a patient ask, how much do our genes contribute to our risk of developing diabetes? Or, "Diabetes seems to run in my family. Am I doomed to developing the disease too?" Phil Wood DVM, MS, PhD gives us a way to answer in his feature...

If your patients are going to start any new exercise program then they need to know how to avoid injuring and what to do about the inevitable muscle. Dr. Sheri Colberg has an excerpt from her book The 7 Step Diabetes Fitness Plan: Living Well and...

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The results of a new study show that, the coronary artery calcification (CAC) score, measured by electron beam tomography, provides incremental information independent of traditional risk factors on all-cause mortality risk.

Adult-strength aspirin taken daily for 5 years or more was associated with a 15% reduced overall cancer incidence, according to the results of a large cohort study.

The average body mass of participants who received motivational interviewing had decreased by 2.6 points on the body mass index scale.

New research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham shows that the effect of diabetes on the severity of illness and risk of death for patients with heart failure is much worse in women than men. The effect is even more pronounced in older patients.

The tunes pumped out by iPods may be off beat to patients with pacemakers, whose devices could be subjected to potentially dangerous interference, reported investigators here.

Succinobucol, a novel antioxidant with anti-inflammatory properties, achieved a 64% reduction in new-onset diabetes in patients with a recent acute coronary syndrome.

Study finds men who consume more dairy products have lower incidence of diabetes

Unconditionally treating all asymptomatic diabetics with statins would be cheaper and prevent more cardiovascular events than routinely screening the same subjects for subclinical atherosclerosis and treating only those with a positive test.

Mean HbA1c change from baseline was -2.9%, for patients with an HbA1c value greater than 11%.

More evidence that lower doses of aspirin are just as effective in preventing cardiovascular events as higher doses comes from a systematic review.

Cardiovascular risk factors are suboptimally treated in diabetes, possibly because of the impression that there is a long delay between diagnosis and the development of macrovascular complications such as stroke.

Because internal deposits can cause trouble then really is what's on the inside that counts and a lot of thin people might be in trouble.

If precursor beta-cells exist, then it can give focus to the development of innovative therapeutic techniques which can possibly stimulate the formation of new endogenous beta-cells.

The stem cells that make the beta-cells May Not Exist!

We now might have a non-invasive way to measure beta-cell growth and apoptosis for determining effectiveness of new treatment therapies that can cause beta-cell regeneration of increase of beta-cell mass instead.