U.S. HEALTH SYSTEM FUELS GROWING DIABETES EPIDEMIC. Doctors need to “wake up” if they think serious complications of diabetes are inevitable in minority patients.

Framingham study finding

Joint Advisory Reassures Physicians, Patients About Drugs’ Importance in Lowering Cholesterol

Statins may increase the risk of nerve damage. But benefits still far outweigh the risk of neuropathy, which remains very low.

Nut consumption was inversely associated with risk of diabetes

ADA: Unlike currently available blood glucose monitors, which require finger prick or other invasive testing for calibration one or more times daily, a new blood glucose monitor presented at the American Diabetes Association 62nd Scientific Sessions in San Francisco, California, is completely noninvasive.

It is not a protein catabolic state as previously thought.

Induces Weight Loss in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.

Albuminuria can develop rapidly within the first few years after the onset of type 2 diabetes

ACE inhibitors cut the incidence of stroke, decrease stroke mortality, and reduce functional impairment following stroke in high-risk patients who have relatively normal blood pressure, reported Dr. Jackie Bosch and associates in the Heart Outcomes Prevention Evaluation (HOPE) study.