Comparison of fat cells in mice and men hints at how genes and environment conspire to produce disease….

Increased spending on drugs is seen as the primary culprit…

Amlexanox increases the level of a second messenger molecule called cAMP which then increases the rate by which cells burn fat… Researchers at the University of Michigan have identified how a promising drug in clinical trials for the treatment of obesity and related metabolic disorders improves the metabolism of sugar …

Corneal confocal microscopy (CCM) can predict incipient peripheral neuropathy in patients with type 1 diabetes… The technique involves the examination of unmyelinated nerve fibers at high magnification using a laser-scanning corneal confocal microscope to image the subbasal nerve plexus of the patient’s cornea. Increased severity of diabetic peripheral neuropathy is …

People ignored nutritional information in a study if they thought yogurt didn’t taste good and many believe that healthy foods don’t taste good…

For men, the increased risk of these complications occurred at higher BMI levels than in women… Researchers examined relations between elevated body mass index (BMI) and time to diagnosis with type 2 diabetes mellitus and its complications among older adults in the United States. Data came from the Medicare Current …

An international team of researchers examined a cohort of nearly 50,000 patients to find out…. Dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors may alter the immune response and increase the risk of infections, but evidence for this association is limited. The United Kingdom Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) and the Hospital Episodes Statistics …

American researchers looked at data on over 120,000 type 2 patients to find out what rates of remission were…. Previous studies have shown that bariatric surgery can result in long-term weight loss, improvement in cardiovascular risk factors, and a reduction in mortality rate of 15% from baseline. However, in a …

Are obesity and CHD truly associated?… Researchers from the U.S. and China examined data on 30,434 diabetic patients from the Louisiana State University Hospital-Based Longitudinal Study (10,955 men and 19,479 women). Patients included were 30-95 years of age without a history of CHD or stroke in the Louisiana State University …

But narrowing down the exact genes responsible proves to be complicated… While people of Mexican ancestry are nearly twice as likely to develop type 2 diabetes as people of European heritage, the majority of research in this area has focused on those of European origin. In an effort to understand …