Muscle quality is also better with good control but muscle mass did not show any significant effect from higher HbA1c’s in the study.…

Insulin resistance with increasing LDL cholesterol were related to low peak volume of oxygen level… Diabetic nephropathy and cardiovascular disease are strongly related in adults with type 1 diabetes, yet little is known about this relationship in adolescents prior to the onset of detectable clinical disease. The researchers hypothesized that …

Urinary creatinine could reveal the relationship between muscle quality and actual muscle mass…

The women also experienced reduced beta cell function…. Researchers from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, assessed associations between dietary intake and rates of change in insulin resistance and β-cell function in Hispanic women with prior gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). Sixty-two nondiabetic Hispanic women with pregnancies complicated by GDM …

Diabetic patients can lose weight with medication specific for weight loss... In two randomized, double-blind and placebo-controlled studies, the safety and efficacy of treatment with phentermine (PHEN) and topiramate ER (TPM ER) (Qsymia) plus lifestyle for weight loss and glycemic benefits were measured. The studies included obese/overweight adults with type 2 diabetes. …

Subjects who participated in an automated internet structured behavioral treatment program showed better weight losses…

The drug, a first-in-class MetAP2 inhibitor, was well-tolerated and also improved cardiovascular disease risk factors… Zafgen has announced that ZAF-221, a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 2 clinical trial of beloranib, a MetAP2 inhibitor, in 14 adults with hypothalamic injury associated obesity, or HIAO, met the primary efficacy endpoint of weight …

Dutch researchers evaluated data on 300,039 type 2 adults on at least one prescription for an antidiabetes drug, and a comparison cohort without diabetes (controls) to determine the relationship between type 2 diabetes and colorectal cancer. “We observed a moderate, yet (1.3-fold) significantly increased, risk of colorectal cancer in patients …

“The results from this study showed that inactive people with diabetes had a more than twofold increased risk of a first [acute] MI when compared with inactive people without diabetes,” the researchers wrote. “This excess risk was canceled out in people with diabetes who reported a high physical activity level. …

In this 22-year study of women, symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were associated with the incidence of type 2 diabetes in a dose-dependent manner. The authors conclude that women with PTSD were at a twofold increased risk for having type 2 diabetes than counterparts without PTSD, and thus care …