Experts Design Tiny Beads to Monitor Blood Sugar: Minimally invasive glucose sensors could be fabricated using the beads for people who need to continuously monitor their blood glucose levels. When implanted, the glowing, fluorescent beads can detect blood sugar levels.. Researchers at the University of Tokyo’s Life Bio Electromechanical Autonomous …

US Salt Intake Little Changed in 50 Years and Still Too High: A new review of 24-hour urinary sodium excretion as measured in a variety of US studies carried out in the past half century has found little change in salt consumption. “The mean amount of sodium excretion in our …

New research shows that timing blood pressure medication with a patient’s body clock makes it more effective and offers greater protection against the occurrence of heart attacks and strokes. The findings could change the hypertension treatment for hundreds of millions of people worldwide….

In patients who are obese, a low glycemic diet along with a supervised 12-week aerobic exercise regimen reduces morning hunger and increases satiety throughout the day, according to a study. The GLP-1 secretion was reduced in the low glycemic diet group.…

Severe hypoglycemia was strongly associated with increased risks of a range of adverse clinical outcomes.…

Overweight and obese individuals with Type 2 diabetes who participated in an intensive 4-year lifestyle intervention program that increased their fitness and physical activity not only lost weight but also experienced an improvement in selected cardiovascular (CV) risk factors.…

Insulin resistance, a condition in which insulin produced by the body becomes less effective in reducing blood glucose levels, appears to be associated with an increased risk of stroke in individuals without diabetes.…

The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) published a consensus statement for continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) online, and the statement will be published in the next issue of the association’s official medical journal Endocrine Practice.…

Scientists have identified events inside insulin-producing pancreatic cells that set the stage for a neonatal form of non-autoimmune Type 1 diabetes, and may play a role in Type 2 diabetes as well…. 

Researchers have found that a gene associated with the onset of Type 2 diabetes also is found at lower-than-normal levels in people with Alzheimer’s disease….