The number of American adults with high blood pressure has climbed to almost one in three over the past decade, putting more people at risk of a stroke, heart attack or kidney failure.

Serum concentrations of adiponectin and leptin can aid in discriminating between diabetes type 1 and type 2 in adolescents and children.

Older women with diabetes or impaired fasting glucose tend to have worse cognitive function than those with normal blood sugar, and are at greater risk of cognitive decline over time.

New research suggests that e-mail consultations benefit patients and it’s inexpensive

Diabetes is most common in poorest neighborhoods.

Gestational diabetes (pronounced jess-tay-shun-ul die-uh-beet-eez) is a type of diabetes, or high blood sugar, that only pregnant women get. In fact, the word gestational means pregnant

A new American study has found that heart drugs, such as angiotensin-converting-enzyme or ACE inhibitors and angiotensin-receptor blockers, can increase potassium levels in approximately 10% of patients.

Disease management programs were associated with marked improvements in many different processes and outcomes of care.

Annual mortality rate for patients with diabetes age 65 or older was 10%.

Researchers at Glasgow University have found the key to avoiding Type 2 diabetes.