Far fewer Americans are engaging in healthy lifestyles than there were just two decades ago, researchers say. So it is not hard to see why a diabetes epidemic is at our doorstep.

No difference is found in mortality risk between drugs that reduce insulin resistance compared to drugs that provide insulin and, “Prompt coronary artery bypass surgery, compared to intensive medical therapy alone, had significantly better outcomes when cardiovascular events were considered in addition to death.

An examination of the neck arteries of today’s obese or diabetic young people bodes ill for their future health, researchers report.

Intensive control is appropriate in the first 15 years after diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes. Initiation of intensive control in first 15 years after diagnosis reduces CV events; initiation of intensive control after 16-20 years results in no benefit; initiation after 20 years.

New research suggests diabetes is becoming a global problem, with more than 60% of all cases likely to occur in Asia. What is so unusual is that many affected individuals are not technically overweight or obese. That is, they are “metabolically obese,” defined as having a normal body weight, but …

If current trends continue, cases of Type 1 diabetes among children under 15 will increase by 70 percent by the year 2020, a new study suggests. Those are among the findings by researchers who analyzed diabetes data from 20 centers in 17 European countries. Those centers registered 29,311 cases of …

All older people should routinely take antihypertensives to prevent cardiovascular disease and stroke, even if they don’t have high blood pressure, according to British researchers.

Primary care physicians who counsel their African American patients about obesity should remain sensitive to the perceptions of their patients, according to a new report.

A team of scientists from Germany and the US found that vitamin C and E supplements may undo the benefits of exercise on diabetes risk and glucose metabolism. It would seem that exercise-induced oxidative stress helps the body defend itself against stress and metabolize carbodydrates more effectively, said the researchers.

With more than 120,000 patients having a bariatric surgery procedure, we now have a database that can help in determining which patients would benefit from the different forms of bariatric surgery.