Researchers have identified 10 genetic variants that may make type 2 diabetes more likely and may lead to new treatments for type 2 diabetes.

New research suggests a "missing link" between the pre-diabetes state and the clinical diagnosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus and can be explained by the decrease in glucose clearance

Improvements in depressive symptoms don’t lead to better control of glucose levels, according to a new report.

How your food is cooked may be as important to your health as the food itself. Researchers now know more about a new class of toxins that might soon become as important a risk factor for heart disease and metabolic disorders as trans fats.

The medical world is waking up from the “DREAM”? When a major international study – called the DREAM trial – reported last fall that the drug rosiglitazone appeared to prevent diabetes in 60 per cent of a group of people at high risk of developing the disease, it was hailed as …

AII receptor antagonists or ACE inhibitors are least associated with incident diabetes and the risk was highest with diuretics and beta-blockers.

A new pizza dough mixture which incorporates cholesterol-lowering plant sterols is set to further expand the market for functional snack foods.

A multidisciplinary team of researchers finds no evidence to support the widely held view that the “thrifty genotype” theory explains racial differences in the prevalence of obesity and type 2 diabetes.

Poor mood may lead to less exercise and worsening diet and depression appears to raise the odds for diabetes in older people, researchers report.

A high titer of autoantibodies to GAD identifies a specific phenotype of adult-onset autoimmune diabetes.