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The American Pharmacists Association’s Project IMPACT: Diabetes program helped communities with large numbers of diabetes patients attain reductions in A1C, blood pressure, BMI and other markers across socioeconomic and ethnic groups. The program pairs community pharmacists with diabetes patients for direct counseling sessions, and pharmacists also collaborate with other members …

New research revealed adults who gained more weight during their teenage years and early 20s had a higher risk of diabetes than those who maintained a stable weight. Researchers also noted a greater risk of adult-onset diabetes in teens who already had a high BMI. Attard SM, et al. "Longitudinal …

In new-onset type 1 diabetes, hybrid closed-loop control (HCLC) followed by sensor-augmented pump (SAP) therapy did not provide benefit in preserving beta-cell function compared with current standards of care. Diabetes Care Oct 2013 

Analysis in the Annals of Internal Medicine revealed undergoing comprehensive lifestyle interventions may help stem the odds of type 2 diabetes in high-risk patients. However, lifestyle initiatives did not appear to cut the risk of all-cause mortality in those who had diabetes, researchers noted. Annals of Internal Medicine, Oct 15, …

The three winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine discovered mechanisms for how hormones, enzymes and other materials are transported inside cells and used throughout the body, helping to reveal the operations of diabetes and other diseases. The three are James E. Rothman of Yale University, Randy …

Data on more than 54,000 participants who were at least 45 years old revealed those who slept for six hours or less and those who slept for 10 hours or more showed higher prevalence of coronary heart disease, stroke and diabetes, as well as obesity and anxiety, compared with those …

New guidelines from the European Society of Cardiology and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes state that if a patient doesn’t have diabetes on the basis of an HbA1c reading, then he or she should be screened with an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT). The new guidance also …

Data on over 500 men with impaired glucose tolerance showed 18% of those who underwent a text-messaging intervention developed type 2 diabetes, compared with 27% of those who received standard care. Patients in the intervention group also showed better good cholesterol levels and lower total dietary energy intake than those …

The benefits of acarbose on cardiovascular risk may be related to its stimulation of GLP-1 secretion. Blood was drawn from 24 subjects with drug-naïve T2D at 0 and 120 min following a standard mixed meal to measure active GLP-1, NO and NOS. The CIMT was measured prior to and following …

Peter Liu of the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute and colleagues at the University of Sydney checked insulin sensitivity in 19 non-diabetic men who slept about 6 hours a night during the workweek, but 10 hours on weekend nights. "By extending sleep to 10 hours a night versus 6 hours …