Parents Oblivious to Overweight Kids: A new report, “F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future 2010,” has found that along with high-fat foods, lack of exercise, and too much screen time, another obesity issue may be misperceptions about weight. The report included a poll that found the majority …

Metformin Reduces Deaths in Patients with Diabetes and Atherothrombosis: New research shows that in patients with diabetes and known atherothrombosis, metformin is associated with a 24% decrease in all-cause mortality after two years of follow-up. The results indicated that even patients thought to have contraindications to metformin — including moderate …

Twenty Percent Increase in Kidney Failure among People with Diabetes: Between 2003 and 2009 there was a 20% increase in people with diabetes needing dialysis or a kidney transplant, as reported by the UK’s National Diabetes Audit. The audit also reveals a third of people with diabetes did not have …

Vitamin B Therapy Decreases GFR and Increases Vascular Events in Diabetes Patients with Retinopathy: The multicenter, double-blind Diabetic Intervention with Vitamins to Improve Nephropathy (DIVINe) study assessed the effects of vitamin B therapy on retinopathy and vascular events in patients with diabetic retinopathy. A total of 238 Type 1 and …

Let your patients with diabetes and no insurance know that, beginning July 1, individuals with pre-existing health conditions as diabetes are eligible to enroll in a temporary high-risk insurance pool, courtesy of the health care reform law…. 

Patients with hypertension, diabetes and coronary artery disease who maintained their systolic blood pressure at less than 130 mm Hg, as recommended by the American Diabetes Association, did not have improved cardiovascular outcomes compared to patients with usual blood pressure control, according to a study….

Group medical clinics are a potent strategy for improving blood pressure but not A1c level in diabetic patients as previous studies have shown…. 

This study supports the concept that high dietary glycemic carbohydrate is associated with a higher prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in adolescents….

Study shows visually impaired people can use insulin pens even though the labels on the popular insulin pen used by people with diabetes warn against visually-impaired people using pens to measure out and administer their insulin dosage….

Patients with Type 1 diabetes who have higher than recommended A1c levels may benefit from treatment with sitagliptin….