If a school is just down the block from a fast-food restaurant, students are more likely to be overweight or obese, researchers reported.

Diabetic retinopathy occurs earlier in type 1 diabetics when beta-cell function is undetectable within 10 years of disease onset, researchers report.

Compared with other overweight children, overweight siblings of children with type 2 diabetes have a significantly higher prevalence of abnormal glucose tolerance, a risk factor for diabetes, according to researchers at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Hyperglycemic component of diabetes has a greater adverse effect on brain functioning than does intermittent hypoglycemia.

Rural residents are more likely to suffer from diabetes by 16% than their city-dwelling counterparts, according to a first-of-its-kind study by researchers at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford.

Osteocalcin is one of Leptin’s mechanism to curb insulin release

The oral glucose tolerance test shows poor reproducibility in overweight children and adolescents, according to Pennsylvania-based researchers. Intra-individual variability is associated with a higher risk of developing diabetes.

Variation in glycosylated hemoglobin levels has been associated with a gene that is involved in the start of the body’s breakdown of sugar, according to researchers.

A Genetic susceptibility to both type 1 diabetes and celiac disease shares common alleles in their genetic makeup.

The study also showed that combined medical and pharmaceutical monthly costs were 10 percent lower for patients who received one or two periodontal procedures annually.