Boosting daily consumption of unsaturated fat and reducing the proportion of carbohydrates resulted in improved insulin sensitivity….

According to the findings of a population-based observational study, postmenopausal breast cancer survivors have a modest but meaningful increase in the incidence of diabetes….

Relatives of patients with schizophrenia are at higher risk of developing diabetes….

Fourteen percent of diabetic patients without ischemic heart disease were treated with high-dose statin therapy, a finding that suggests some of these patients may be potentially overtreated….

Hope everyone had a great holiday weekend and that you are now ready for the New Year. This week we have part two of our current clinical text, Adipose Tissue as an Endocrine Gland: A Possible Key in Understanding the Metabolic Mysteries. There is some great information on the three types of …

A Possible Key in Understanding the Metabolic Mysteries, Part 2 Osama Hamdy, MD, PhD, FACE The weeks excerpt answers the following questions: What is the liptoxicity theory? How best to measure visceral fat? Is all fat the same?  What is "metabolic obesity"? What are the 3 kinds of fat? Does …

In this week’s set of Homerun Slides, we explore the question of why patients are so reluctant to monitor, and then provide you with some tools to help convince them of the importance of monitoring….

This year has just sped by for all of us here at Diabetes In Control and we suspect for many of you as well. In this holiday season of rushing around, we hope that you have a chance to relax, catch your breath and enjoy the season for at least a …

Hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia are often exaggerated during the holidays, either because of too much food, increased activity, more travel than usual, or all of these combined. For our type 1 patients both low and elevated levels might be because they are eating foods they are not familiar with. However these …

Stavros Liatis, Nikolaos Katsilambros           Case 4.1 A 65-year-old man with history of Type 2 diabetes presented to the emergency department at 10.30 pm.