Small-for-gestational age (SGA) newborn babies appear to have hormone levels conducive to weight gain.

Women and not men, who drink two or more cans of regular, not diet soda pop per day are nearly twice as likely to show early signs of kidney disease, a recent study has found.

The prevalence of metabolic syndrome is significantly higher in patients with type 2 diabetes than in those with autoimmune diabetes.

Massachusetts-based Draper Laboratories is developing a special tattoo ink that changes color based on glucose levels inside the skin.

A Hopkins research team recently found a biomarker for diabetes, which may lead to a new assay for the disease. The researchers focused on a complex sugar called O-linked N-acetylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc), which is made from the much simpler sugar, glucose.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, or CMS, announced last week a clarification in its policy for Medicare coverage of bariatric surgery as a treatment for certain beneficiaries with type 2, or non-insulin-dependent, diabetes.

The 2 major types of bariatric procedures for obese patients — bypass surgery and restrictive surgery — have different effects on gut hormone secretion, and thus on insulin secretion and sensitivity. These effects should be considered when choosing a surgical approach for severely obese patients with type 2 diabetes and …

Ambulatory blood pressure (BP) monitoring of the elderly diabetic can improve the prediction of Heart Disease and Mortality

Drinking diet soda at least daily is associated with significantly greater risks for select incident components of the metabolic syndrome (MetSyn) and type 2 diabetes, according to the results of an observational study.

Cardiovascular disease is the biggest health threat of obesity and Medical College of Georgia researchers trying to understand why have knocked out protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B, or PTP1B, in genetically fat mice that get diabetes.