Insulin resistance, a condition commonly associated with the development of type 2 diabetes, is likely a major cause of kidney disease, or nephropathy, in people with type 1 diabetes.

Patients with diabetes get faster attention with fewer potential errors thanks to nurses with personal data assistants (PDAs).

Once daily dosing improves outcomes with better compliance.

IGT and IFG are major risk factors for future diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD) and the need for urgent intervention.

Diabetic women who receive hormone replacement therapy (HRT) have lower glucose levels and better cholesterol profiles than their counterparts who do not receive HRT

Simvastatin minimizes oxidative stress and endothelial dysfunction brought on by the cumulative effects of postprandial hypertriglyceridemia and hyperglycemia seen in type 2 diabetics.

Researchers have found that losartan, an angiotensin II receptor blocker, can protect diabetic patients with nephropathy from end-stage renal disease. 44,000 cases could have been prevented over 3.5 years.

There are not nearly enough donors to go around. Seven hundred thousand people in the United States have type 1 diabetes (islet cell transplantation can’t treat most cases of type 2 diabetes.

The weight gain experienced by thousands of people with diabetes who rely upon multiple injections of insulin may soon be a thing of the past

One-year, insulin-free status also was achieved in a child who received a mixture of pig islet cells, without the use of immunosuppressive drugs.