Men who regularly take commonly available and widely used pain relievers may have an increased risk of high blood pressure of 48% compared with those who do not use these medications.

A new tool is developed to identify patients who are most at risk for chronic kidney disease (CKD).

The World Health Organization’s estimate of 39 percent growth in diabetes cases between 2000 and 2030 may be an underestimate, according to a study of cases in Canada published in the Lancet.

Obesity may be reduced by preventing immature fat cells (adipocytes) from developing into mature cells, and other studies have shown that capsaicin can decrease the amount of fat tissue and decrease fat levels in the blood.

Patient adherence to medical therapy has been called “the next frontier in quality improvement.”1 The need to focus on this issue is due to abundant evidence suggesting that adherence to chronic pharmacologic therapy is poor, leading to worsening disease severity and increased cost.

It is well known that people with type 2 diabetes are at increased risk of pancreatic cancer, and now it seems that the risk extends to those with type 1 diabetes, researchers report.

Men who limited alcohol intake to less than a glass of wine a day lived about four years longer than those who consumed similar amounts of beer or spirits, researchers reported.

Metformin and glibenclamide are not teratogenic but that it is advisable to replace oral glucose lowering drugs with insulin when women book for pregnancy care to reduce perinatal mortality rates.

The American Clinical Board of Nutrition (ACBN) offers our readers the first NCCA recognized certificate in nutrition.

The countdown to diabetes and coronary heart disease may start earlier for women with prediabetes than for men.