White-coat hypertension is considered harmless in most people, but it appears to increase the risk of microvascular complications in patients with type 2 diabetes, Brazilian researchers report in Diabetes Care.

In pediatric patients with type 1 diabetes, insulin glargine is associated with greater reductions in glucose variability vs NPH/Lente insulin when used as the basal component of multiple daily injections (MDIs).

Certain ethnic groups and women with lower socioeconomic status are at increased risk of developing diabetes while pregnant, research shows.

Finding may clarify the disease’s connection to obesity.

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For the past 5 years Theresa Garnero, APRN, BC-ADM, MSN, CDE, has brought us some great laughs with her diabetes cartoons. But all those letters after her last name also means she knows something about diabetes care. She has just completed the book Your First Year with Diabetes: What to …

The number of Americans with major eye diseases is expected to drastically increase over the next several decades as more Americans are diagnosed with diabetes, according to a new study.

If a school is just down the block from a fast-food restaurant, students are more likely to be overweight or obese, researchers reported.

Diabetic retinopathy occurs earlier in type 1 diabetics when beta-cell function is undetectable within 10 years of disease onset, researchers report.

Compared with other overweight children, overweight siblings of children with type 2 diabetes have a significantly higher prevalence of abnormal glucose tolerance, a risk factor for diabetes, according to researchers at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.