St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital investigators have discovered how destructive immune cells gain access to insulin-producing cells and help cause diabetes.

Reducing carbohydrate consumption to control high blood glucose in people with diabetes reduces the risk for macrovascular and microvascular complications, according to Richard Feinman, PhD, from the Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. 

True diabetes prevention lies not in maintaining a pre-diabetes state but rather in moving from prediabetes to normal glucose regulation, Dr. Leigh Perreault from the University of Colorado in Aurora and colleagues say. 

The rate of postpartum diabetes screening is low, according to the results of a retrospective cohort study.

Some women who test negative for gestational diabetes on glucose challenge and glucose tolerance tests are still at significant risk of developing Type 2 diabetes and hypertension 15 years later. 

Very young children who gain more weight, relative to their height, than their peers have more metabolic risk factors at 4 years of age, according to study findings.

Relationship of A1c and mortality in heart failure patients with diabetes.

A new product that is taken along with insulin improves absorption and increased peak insulin concentrations, therefore allowing better glucose control.

A sensor-augmented pump (SAP), which combines an insulin pump with a continuous glucose sensor, delivers lower hemoglobin (Hb)A1c levels than multiple daily injections, without an increase in hypoglycemia. This finding potentially moves pumps a step nearer to the ultimate aim of a closed system and greater control and convenience for patients …

A new case-control study has shown that an episode of hypoglycemia in diabetes patients is associated with a higher risk of MI for the following two weeks and possibly for a few months afterward.