A 1-percent increase in HA1c predicted an 18-percent increase in risk for total cardiovascular disease and a 28-percent risk for peripheral vascular disease.

Among 70- to 90-year-olds, adherence to a Mediterranean diet and healthful lifestyle is associated with a more than 50% lower rate of all-cause and cause-specific mortality.

Forearm blood flow, measured by near-infrared spectroscopy, is reduced in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes who have no other clinical signs of vasculopathy.

The warning refers to the increased risk of hyperglycemia and diabetes in patients treated with ziprasidone and other atypical antipsychotics.

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Albuquerque’s InLight Solutions, makers of biometric and life sciences measurement and identification equipment, has received a $250,000 federal grant to support the company’s non-invasive diabetes screening technology.

Which food is the biggest single source of calories in America? Burgers? Pizza? Aunt Celia’s fruitcake? Actually, the biggest source of calories is not really a food at all (although I suppose the same could be said about the fruitcake). The answer is in that 44 ounce Super Big Gulp …

New study sheds light on the key mechanisms by which new pancreatic beta cells normally form in response to insulin resistance.

Insulin sensitivity may be more directly related to loss of intramyocellular or omental fat rather than loss of total body weight.

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