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After one year, patients lost 5.4% of their weight. Treatment with the lipase inhibitor orlistat in addition to a low calorie diet significantly reduces weight of overweight patients with type 2 diabetes.

Poor glucose tolerance is associated with cognitive deficits.

The findings confirm suspicions that serving sizes have grown ever larger and may be contributing to the rising rates of diabetes and obesity in the US. Just a an additional 100 calories a day can translate into 10 extra pounds a year

Topical oxygen successfully heals difficult-to-treat wounds, according to a case series published in the January issue of Pathophysiology.

Hypertension is more likely to be inadequately controlled in diabetic patients than in nondiabetics.

Those with insulin resistance or diabetes showed a two- to three-fold increase in large VLDL concentrations.

Cigarette smoking increases oxidant stress and thereby progressive renal injury in patients with type 2 diabetes.

Supplementing the diet with the fatty acid conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) may lead to weight control and disease management in diabetics.

Patients given an ACE inhibitor or angiotensin II-receptor antagonist, regardless of blood pressure, a aspirin 150 mg q.d. and a vitamin-mineral supplement that included chrome picolinate.