The number of preventable injury-related deaths remains disproportionately high for youth on reservations, due to diabetes reaching near epidemic levels among Native American adults, reported by the federal government last Thursday.

Exendin-4 is a promising therapeutic for patients with type 2 diabetes

Choosing low-GI foods in place of conventional or high-GI foods has a small but clinically useful effect on medium-term glycemic control in patients with diabetes.

Researchers successful in reversing type 1 diabetes by “teaching” the newly emerging immune cells not to attack the insulin-secreting islet cells.

New survey links food portions to the growing epidemic of obesity in this county and abroad.

The largest and most comprehensive examination of health care quality in the US finds people with diabetes received only 45 percent of the care they need.

Once daily glimepiride dosages provide effective glycemic control and result in weight neutralizing or reducing effects in patients with Type 2 diabetes.

First prospective intervention study testing the postprandial hyperglycemia hypotheses as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. “Acarbose treatment was associated with a relative risk reduction of 49% for cardiovascular events.

In a study of more than 4000 subjects, elevated cholesterol levels were found to be associated with an increased risk of renal dysfunction in apparently healthy men

Findings provide strong support for aggressive BP reduction for people with nephropathy from type 2 diabetes.