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A patient from Indiana with a hiatal hernia once told me, “These Dextrotabs don’t raise my blood sugar one bit. What really works is one stick of that sugar-free chewing gum.”

Higher levels of Lipoprotein(a) in patients with type 2 diabetes increases risk for CAD

Intensive cholesterol reduction with atorvastatin lowers blood pressure (BP) and large artery stiffness in normolipidemic subjects.

New study shows a lower morbidity rate after vascular surgery and is even lower than those who don’t have the disease.

Twenty percent of people with coronary artery disease still do not use aspirin therapy.

Accumulation of intra-abdominal fat is associated with insulin resistance, whereas accumulation of subcutaneous fat is associated with increased plasma leptin levels.

Metformin may help offset weight gain in pediatric patients taking psychotropic medications, according to an open label study reported in the April issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry.

The understanding of the meaning of an A1c tests is crucial to diabetes management according to a new study.

A once-a-day baby aspirin can modestly ward off the development of common polyps that eventually grow to become colon cancer, a study finds.

Complications of diabetes cost the health care system about $47,000 per patient over the course of the person’s life.