Type 2 diabetes mellitus is associated with an increased risk of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) and erectile dysfunction (ED) in men younger than 45 years, researchers reported.

Four weeks ago I gave you some information on the IDF’s new guidelines on glucose monitoring and how best to use this tool. This week Item #1 brings us comments by leading European diabetes experts led by Professor Oliver Schnell from the Diabetes Research Institute in Munich. Together they published …

The Yearly Cost for a Patient with Diabetes Complications is $30,000: According to UnitedHealthcare studies, the average annual cost for treating diabetes patients and pre-diabetes patients is: $5,000 for pre-diabetes patients; $12,000 for undiagnosed people with diabetes; $10,000 for a diabetes patient without complications; and $30,000 for a diabetes patient …

Sixty Percent of Those with Diabetes Don’t Do It! Sixty percent of diabetes patients do not follow their physician’s advice on how to manage their disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This suggests that there is significant opportunity for improvement in the quality of life and …

Obesity in Children Doubled Over Last 20 Years: The American Academy of Pediatrics reports the prevalence of children who are obese has doubled over the past two decades. The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey reported that 31.9 percent of children and adolescents were overweight (BMI at or above the …

Diabetes Diagnoses Will Double and Spending Triple Even if the Prevalence of Obesity Remains Stable: The study concluded that, over the next 25 years, the number of Americans with diagnosed and undiagnosed diabetes would soar from 23.7 million to 44.1 million — nearly doubling. During the same period, annual spending …

Experts underline benefits of SMBG for all types of diabetes treatment plans.

If obesity rates just remain stable, in the next 25 years, the number of Americans living with diabetes will nearly double, increasing from 23.7 million in 2009 to 44.1 million in 2034. Over the same period, spending on diabetes will  triple, rising from $113 billion to $336 billion, even with …

Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA,  found that, when you eat may be just as vital to your health as what you eat. Their experiments revealed that the daily waxing and waning of thousands of genes in the liver — the body’s metabolic clearinghouse — …

Researchers from the University of California, San Diego, recently offered the sharpest-yet picture of how core biochemical pathways in skeletal muscle cells and fat cells are altered in people who suffer from insulin resistance — a primary defect in Type 2 diabetes and obesity.