Older physicians (55 years and older) were less likely than younger physicians to have IT support in their practices for all clinical functions.

In nine studies that included a total of 5,168 participants, they found that pre-diabetics using weight-loss interventions could drop between 2 and 3 kilograms, or four to six pounds, in one to two years. Although small, even modest loss can have serious health benefits.

Will realize dream of publishing a book of advice and tips to help families overcome the challenges of parenting with diabetes.

Green Tea Extract Can Increase Endurance by 24 Percent and Speeds Up Fat Breakdown. Green tea extract appears to stimulate the use of fatty acids by the muscle, reducting carbohydrate use and allowing for longer exercise times.

Algorithms based on self-monitored blood glucose levels are useful in determining the optimal dose of insulin.

People with advanced heart failure and who also have diabetes that requires insulin treatment have about a fourfold greater mortality rate than heart failure patients who don’t take insulin.

Women consuming at least 1,000 µg per day of total folate had a 46% reduction in the risk of incident hypertension.

Researchers predict that by 2025, approximately one in three adults over age 20 – or 1.56 billion people worldwide – will have high blood pressure.

For the first time it has been shown that both raising HDL stops plaques in the arteries from getting larger and also prevents heart events. Until this study no previous study has focused on both.

Chlorthalidone-based treatment improves long-term outcomes associated with isolated systolic hypertension, especially among patients with diabetes.