To stall progress of neuropathy, doctors should monitor levels of an easily measured blood fat as closely as they do blood sugar, study suggests.…

How Does Metformin Work? Metformin works directly in the liver cells, regulating the genes that control blood sugar production. It mimics a protein called CBP that communicates between the liver and the pancreas. Not only has new research told us how metformin really works, but a new biomarker was found …

New data presented at the recent AACE meeting shows that metabolic surgery, a new surgical approach to metabolic disease, may provide the key to curing diabetes in some patients. However, if the result is normal blood sugars for Type 2 patients without medications, is it a cure?

Researchers have gained fresh insights into how elevated glucose levels damage blood vessels. The mechanism could lead to novel strategies for blocking the destruction.

This comes from a study of 13,877 people; clinicians are missing golden opportunities to identify heart disease before patients start displaying symptoms..

The amount of food Americans eat has been increasing since the 1970s, and that alone is the cause of the obesity epidemic in the US today [1]. Physical activity–or the lack thereof–has played virtually no role in the rising number of expanding American waistlines, according to recent research.

Spending more time in the sunshine could help older people to reduce their risk of developing heart disease and diabetes…

According to the results of a new study, adolescent girls with poorly controlled Type 2 diabetes are more likely to have structural and functional cardiac abnormalities than are their healthy peers or even girls with Type 1 diabetes.

Continuous perioperative insulin infusion reduces the incidence of major cardiovascular events in patients who undergo vascular surgery, researchers report.

Signs and symptoms of Type 2 diabetes can present themselves as long as 10 years before diagnosis and most people have no idea before the damage is done. Education and better screening prior to diagnosis is critical if we are going to prevent Type 2 diabetes.