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Early detection and treatment of type 2 diabetes may be more beneficial than aggressive control of blood glucose, blood pressure and cholesterol… Screening to identify type 2 diabetes followed by early treatment could result in substantial health benefits, according to new research that combined large scale clinical observations and innovative …

Toxin produced by Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus), a common skin bacteria, caused glucose intolerance in rabbit cells… Bacteria and viruses have an obvious role in causing infectious diseases, but microbes have also been identified as the surprising cause of other illnesses, including cervical cancer (Human papilloma virus) and stomach ulcers …

American Diabetes Association (ADA), American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) joint position statement…. There are four times the need for diabetes self-management education and support should be assessed: at diagnosis, annually, when there are new complications and during transitions of care. Research …

How low should we go? A new study is a 10-year follow-up to the Veterans Affairs Diabetes Trial in which 1,791 type 2 diabetics over the age of 60 were enrolled. The veterans were randomly placed in either the “standard” therapy group that had a higher HbA1c goal or the …

Inactivity seems to compromise the cardiometabolic system…. The study with 4,600 children found that children who engage in daily physical exercise reap the health benefits as early as their teens. They found that those who were more active in late childhood had a lower body weight and lower risk factors for …

Measurement of neck proves additional indicator of upper-body subcutaneous fat, metabolic risk… In the study of 138 obesity-clinic patients, neck circumference cutoffs of 36 cm or greater in females and 39 cm or more in males correlated with criteria for the metabolic syndrome. In women more than men, neck circumference …

Patients taking metformin during a 10-year study had a 25% reduced risk of developing glaucoma… The researchers hypothesized that a drug that mimics caloric restriction, such as metformin, might reduce the risk of glaucoma, said Julia Richards, lead researcher and ophthalmology professor at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. Richards …

  Engineers at MIT and the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) have devised a new way to detect cancer that has spread to the liver, by enlisting help from probiotics — beneficial bacteria similar to those found in yogurt…. Many types of cancer, including colon and pancreatic, tend …

Low fat, low GI diet results in lost weight, some reduction in diabetic nerve pain… Encouraging lifestyle and dietary modifications is a standard protocol for physicians and educators working with type 2 diabetic patients in an effort to reduce diabetes-related complications. In a small pilot study researchers investigated whether or …

A female patient on insulin, 67 years of age, required more and more insulin to manage her glucose levels. She was eating healthily, exercising, monitoring, and taking her insulin as prescribed. I asked her when she had last seen her dentist. She confessed that this was one part of her …