This week we have packed our newsletter with all the best of the recent 72nd ADA Scientific Sessions in Philadelphia. Steve and Andrew conducted more than 20 interviews with top diabetes thought leaders and we will have those for you in the upcoming weeks. This week we looked at how …

Pioglitazone (Actos) and rosiglitazone (Avandia) appear to substantially boost risk of macular edema in type 2 diabetes, an observational study found. Incidence of diabetic macular edema was 1.3% at 1 year on a thiazolidinedione (TZD) compared with just 0.2% among type 2 diabetes patients not on one of those agents. …

Omega-3 fatty acids did not reduce the rate of cardiovascular events in high-risk patients with prediabetes or diabetes followed for half a dozen years, the randomized ORIGIN trial found. Cardiovascular deaths occurred among 9.1% and 9.3% of those randomized to n-3 fatty acids or placebo, respectively. N Engl J Med 2012 

Statin drugs may leave users — especially women — feeling drained and tired on exertion, a clinical trial suggested. Combined scores for change in energy and exertional fatigue worsened after starting a statin compared with placebo (P=0.005). For women, scores suggested that as many as 40% felt more tired and …

Daily insulin glargine injections, begun during the early stages of type 2 diabetes, neither increased nor reduced the risk of heart attacks, strokes, cancer or cardiovascular-related mortality, researchers found in the largest and longest study of its kind….

The ORIGIN study also examined whether daily insulin use in people at high risk for type 2 diabetes would prevent or slow progression of the disease….

In a modern-day clinical trial of a medicine belonging to one of the world’s oldest classes of drugs, researchers have found that a drug related to aspirin and salicylate, may be a potential treatment for people with type 2 diabetes….

Many are unable to control A1c and many develop markers of risk for cardiovascular complications….

In the most comprehensive analysis of people with type 1 diabetes ever undertaken in the U.S., researchers found that….

Eating breakfast is associated with a decreased chance of developing type 2 diabetes….