New guidelines call for giving the cholesterol-lowering drugs to almost all people with diabetes to help prevent heart disease…

Clinicians are urged to consider testing for diabetes in all Asian American adults who present with a BMI ≥23 kg/m2… Aligning its guidelines with evidence that Asian Americans develop type 2 diabetes at lower BMI levels than the general population, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) has lowered its screening cut …

Nearly 600,000 cancer cases in the UK could have been avoided in the last five years if people had healthier lifestyles according to Cancer Research UK…. Overall, experts say that more than four in 10 cancers could be prevented by changes to lifestyle. With health services already overstretched and people …

According to a published study seven metabolites can predict the risk of type 2 diabetes in Native American patients… Using these metabolites improved risk prediction beyond established methods of predicting diabetes risk, including BMI, fasting glucose, and insulin resistance. Jinying Zhao, MD, PhD, of the Tulane University School of Public …

According to a new study, about 1/3 of people with type 1 diabetes produce insulin, as measured by C-peptide, even upward of 40 years from initial diagnosis… The findings shed new light on the long-accepted belief that patients with type 1 diabetes lose all ability to produce any insulin. The …

Inulin-proprionate-ester helps to stimulate the gut to release hormones including GLP-1 that act on the brain to reduce hunger….

A team of Canadian researchers found that as many as 8 years could be lost by men and the effects of overweight and obesity were greatest for younger patients. 

Elevated fasting insulin levels in children aged 3 to 6 years may help predict which children will develop type 2 diabetes as adults… Although researchers did not find the same association for older children and adolescents, they did find an association between body mass index (BMI) in peripubertal years and …

Cost-related medication underuse was the most common “material need insecurity…”

Before 1942, environmental factors were not as significant as in later years, when they are believed to be twice as strong… A multi-institutional research team at Massachusetts General Hospital has found out that environmental factors may outweigh genetic ones, as the risk of obesity that runs even in the same …