That’s more than 60 million Americans that could become diabetic

After years of dismissing the Atkins diet, the medical establishment is at last putting it to a careful test and finding it might not be the nutritional foolishness they long assumed.

Giving atorvastatin every other day was as effective in lowering low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels as giving it daily, saving more than $269/patient.

Are the current definitions of impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) and impaired fasting glycemia (IFG) appropriate? Are IFG and IGT risk factors, risk markers or diseases? These are just a couple of the questions addressed.

A group of researchers led by Dr Johannes Plank from the Karl-Franzens University of Graz in Austria, compared the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic profiles of insulin aspart and insulin lispro and their effects on postprandial blood glucose excursions in patients with type 1 diabetes.

Diabetics with certain genes were more likely to develop diabetic neuropathy

More than two-thirds of middle-aged men with a waist size of 35 inches (90 cm or more) and triglyceride levels of 180 mg/dL (2.0 mmol/L) or more have metabolic abnormalities of insulin resistance syndrome

How food is prepared may be as important as what is eaten, for diabetics, and perhaps the general population as well, investigators suggest.

A study, presented by Dr. Paolo Pozzilli of the Bio-Medical University Campus in Rome, suggests that an insulin pump may be the best way to control diabetes from the start.

Significant Improvement Seen in a Leading Indicator Of Cardiovascular Disease