Diabetic patients have an impaired ability to heal wounds, so there is a critical need to develop new treatments to improve healing….

Brown fat plays an important role in diabetes and metabolism because of its ability to metabolize glucose and fatty acids….

Small changes have big impacts and knowledge is golden….

Gastric banding shows improvements in cardiovascular risk, lipids and glucose and the benefits persisting at 5 years and continuing….

Teens who have childhood depression are at higher risk of cardiovascular diseases….

Type 1 diabetic patients are at higher risk of developing autoimmune thyroid condition and women are eight times more likely to develop thyroid disease than men….

Statin medication use in postmenopausal women is associated with an increased risk for diabetes….

Green tea and with coffee can reduce risk of stroke….

We constantly talk to our diabetes patients about complications due to microvascular damage caused by elevated glucose levels. Nerve damage in the extremities and reduced kidney function are two we often speak about. However, only in recent years have we begun to understand the magnitude and implications of the association between …

Richard S. Beaser, MD Michael Johnstone, MD  This week’s excerpt answers the following questions: What are the risk factors for the premenopausal female? What is the likelihood of macrovascular disease among those with diabetes?  While diabetes is a result of a metabolic dysfunction resulting in hyperglycemia complications make diabetes mellitus …