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A thiamine (Vitamin B1) deficiency may be key to vascular problems for diabetic patients. FDA panel says Avandia offers benefits to people with type 2 disease, but…..

Statin therapy is safe and effective for children with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HeFH), according to new findings.

Research favors other drugs to control hypertension. While high blood pressure patients taking beta-blockers have a reduced risk of stroke of 16 percent to 22 percent compared with a placebo, the other hypertension drugs reduce that risk by an average of 38 percent.

The researchers concluded that abnormal variations in blood pressure were associated with postprandial hyperglycemia, but not fasting hyperglycemia.

New onset diabetes in patients with chronic heart failure is more likely to develop with metoprolol than with carvedilol, according to new findings

You are not the only one! It has become more socially acceptable for women to carry a few extra pounds, according to a new study. The weight of the average woman increased by 20 pounds, or 13.5 percent, during the period of 1976 to 2000.

Adults who had so-called metabolic syndrome when they were children have a substantially increased risk of having heart disease in their 30s, researchers report.

Researchers at Columbia University in New York have discovered that certain bone cells produce a hormone called osteocalcin, which influences beta-cell proliferation and controls the metabolism of blood sugar (glucose) and fat deposits through previously unknown mechanisms.

Researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) have found that a triple combination therapy consisting of both tolerance-inducing and anti-inflammatory properties is successful in abolishing adverse autoimmunity against insulin-producing cells in a mouse model of Type 1 diabetes.