In type 2 diabetics with microalbuminuria, irbesartan reduces albumin excretion independent of its antihypertensive effect.

McDonald’s Makes Kids Fat, Lawyers Say. Lawyers have filed a class-action lawsuit against McDonald’s on behalf of New York children who have suffered health problems, including diabetes, high blood pressure, and obesity.

Officials from the VHA Health Foundation announced Monday a plan aimed at stemming rising diabetes rates in Hispanic and American Indian children.

Short-term oral treatment with medroxyprogesterone acetate significantly improves insulin sensitivity, according to results of a prospective study.

According to researchers with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), over the past few years, a growing number of patients with diabetes have adopted routine measures to prevent complications.

That according to 2 recent studies in the American Journal of Hypertension and Nutrition.

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.