Quality of Life Test, Updated  Ninety percent of type 2 patients do not know what their A1c results mean: do your patients know? We are repeating this tool both because we have had many requests and because it has proven to be such an effective tool for motivating patients to better …

Most American adults aren’t meeting the federal physical activity recommendations for both aerobic exercise and muscle-strengthening activity, according to new government statistics. About 79% of adults don’t meet the physical activity guidelines that advise getting at least 2½ hours a week of moderate-intensity aerobic activity such as brisk walking, or …

A new published study has found that beta-cell dysfunction, not merely insulin resistance, may explain the early stages of type 2 diabetes in Asian Indians. One-thousand two-hundred sixty-four individuals without known diabetes in the Diabetes Community Lifestyle Improvement Program in Chennai, India, had a 75-g oral glucose tolerance test, with …

One in five patients with a mean age of 19 scored in the depressive range on the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CES-D) scale. In turn, depressive symptoms were associated with poorer adherence to treatment (F=3.56, P

Dr. DeFronzo presented the "Diabetes Update – 2013," focusing on preventing diabetes….

A recent FDA-approved device is proving to be a promising method for detecting neuropathy in patients with diabetes….

Prediabetes patients show similar heart risks as those with diabetes….

Type 1 diabetes patients had lower rates of nocturnal hypoglycemia with once-daily doses of insulin degludec versus similar doses of insulin glargine….

AACE calls for a new guideline based on a tailored approach to treating type 2 diabetes while maintaining the use of an algorithm-based model…. Alan Garber, MD, PhD, of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, and colleagues reported in Endocrine Practice and at the AACE meeting that, the new recommendations …

Patients with diabetes remain at greatly increased risk for ischemic stroke at all ages, but especially in the under-65 age group….