Young adults, age 18-44, who get type 2 diabetes are 14 times more likely to suffer a heart attack and up to 30 times more likely to have a stroke than their peers without diabetes Stroke Risk Increased Up to 30 Times.

A case of poorly controlled insulin-dependent diabetes led to liver glycogen deposition and abnormal liver enzymes. That, from researchers at the 68th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology

Intensive diabetes treatment to sustain near-normal glycemia has an extended benefit of delaying the progression of diabetic nephropathy.

Current clinical management of type 2 diabetes is focused on treatment of the signs and symptoms of late-stage disease rather than addressing potential underlying causes.

Early data suggest that, in addition to reducing hyperglycemia, pioglitazone and rosiglitazone effect changes in the dyslipidemic profile, hemodynamics, vascular inflammation, and endothelial functioning of patients with type 2 diabetes

Findings have important implications for patient management and selection of treatment. Individuals with maturity-onset diabetes of the young caused by heterozygous mutations in the hepatocyte nuclear factor HNF-1a gene have a greater response to sulphonylurea than do patients with type 2 diabetes according to the findings from a randomised crossover …

Metformin treatment leads to an increase in homocysteine levels in patients with type 2 diabetes who take insulin. Adding B6, folic acid and B12 to treatment regimen, might lower homocysteine levels and reduce the risk of CVD. This comes from a recent report from Bethesda General Hospital, Hoogeveen, Netherlands.

FINDING A LUMP in your breast can be terrifying and your first thought may be that it is Cancer! Did you know that diabetes could be the cause?

Experts are urging more people to take it on. walk everyday for 30 minutes.” That’s right. In addition to eating low-fat meals, you need to pound the pavement.

Launching a cholesterol-reducing orange juice this week.