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Diabetes patients whose full-body MRIs showed "vascular changes" had a 20% risk of heart attack or stroke at three years and a 35% risk at six years compared with those whose results did not reveal changes, a study indicated. Scientists found that scanning the body with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) …

The average French competitor in the Tour de France lives about 6 years longer than their non-competitive French age-matched countrymen, Xavier Jouven, MD, a cardiologist at Hopital Europeen Georges-Pompidou, Paris, said at the European Society of Cardiology meeting. "We found a substantially and significantly lower mortality in French participants in …

The U.S. will continue to lead the trend of growing waistlines across the developed world, a new study predicted. Altogether, eight leading developed countries and Brazil will see an increase in obesity cases from about 167 million last year to 213 million by 2022. Brazil will be second to the …

Obese people face nearly three-fold higher odds of dying from a flu infection and should be given priority access to flu shots, according to the authors of a new study. They found that the risk of dying increases at a BMI of 30 or greater.  The researchers analyzed 239 studies …

Women with shorter total sleep time also showed reduced exercise duration the following day, according to a small study. Results suggest that sleep influences next day exercise rather than exercise influencing sleep. The relationship between total sleep time (TST) and next day exercise was stronger for those with shorter TST …

Research presented at the ADA Scientific Sessions showed the one-year drug discontinuation rate among type 2 diabetes patients was 89% in those taking a GLP-1 agonist, 82% in those who took a DPP-4 inhibitor and 84% in those treated with other diabetes drugs. The median time to treatment discontinuation was …

Improved economic conditions may have resulted in habits that led to diabetes, according to a study that examined the connection between the prevalence of diabetes and state-based per-capita income growth from 1950 to 1980. Children whose parents were previously poor were not biologically ready to handle the sedentary lifestyle and …

Five screening tests were performed on 1,573 participants with no known diabetes status. Costs of screening were measured over three years and researchers compared costs for no screening, screening everyone for diabetes or high-risk prediabetes, and screening those with risk factors based on age, BMI, blood pressure, waist circumference, lipids, …

In a study of older patients, both diabetic and non-diabetic, poor balance and diabetes were shown to be independent risk factors. According to multivariate logistic regression models, diabetes was found to be a major risk factor even after poor balance is corrected. "Systematic medication reviews, specific balance exercises and cognitive …

According to a small study with employee volunteers at Tufts University, 94 obese participants who participated in weekly sessions with a nutritionist during lunch lost an average of 17.6 pounds; 39 obese participants who did not receive counseling gained, on average, 2 pounds over the period of 6 months. Tufts …