Nine weeks of education about the glycemic index in foods is enough to encourage adults with Type 2 diabetes to adopt better dietary habits that result in improvements to their health, recent research suggests.

The chance discovery of a genetic mutation that makes mice enormously fat but protects them from diabetes has given researchers at Boston University School of Medicine, MA, new insights into the cellular mechanisms that link obesity to Type 2 diabetes.

Treatment of depression in low-income minorities with poorly controlled diabetes improves HbA1c and systolic blood pressure, investigators report.

Saxagliptin added to a thiazolidinedione improved glycemic control in Type 2 diabetes patients, in a phase III trial.

According to a head-to-head Phase III trial with Lantus (insulin glargine), taspoglutide is found to be equally effective.

Breast-feeding may protect the nursing mother from metabolic syndrome, according to the results of a prospective, observational cohort study.

Blood samples were analyzed for differences (mutations) in DNA and RNA that affect the level of gene expression. The result of these mutations would cause the individual to be less able to metabolize carbohydrates.

New research shows that the risk of heart attack, stroke, sudden cardiac death and diabetes in men who underwent androgen deprivation therapy was 20 to 30 percent higher.

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By Sheri Colberg, Ph.D. I have had many people ask me recently if they can follow a low-carb diet and still do significant exercise training and events — individuals with both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. Not all of us follow the "low-carb" mantra (even if we moderate our carbohydrate …