Many of the 75 million Americans with essential hypertension also develop diabetes and other complications in addition to their high blood pressure, and researchers have discovered a common molecular mechanism in a strain of rat that explains why such metabolic disorders arise together in mammals.

A new study just published in the Annals of Internal Medicine suggests that those people who regularly indulge in their favorite coffee beverage may live longer than those who don’t.

Researchers found that fruit sugars, known as fructose, are more likely than other types of sugar to cause fat around the middle, which increases the risk of heart disease and diabetes.

Poor drug adherence in patients with diabetes continues to plague clinicians, but new tools have been created to solve this problem by improving decision making. Physicians must change the nature of their conversations to ensure that the medication choices are consistent with the evidence as well as the values and …

Boston University report results from a study demonstrating that omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids are precursors to a powerful new genus of anti-inflammatory and pro-resolution mediators, coined ‘resolvins’ and ‘protectins’.

AHA statement urges clinicians to think beyond clinical treatment and prevention and to emphasize nutrition and physical activity, life-style modification.

According to new findings recently published, among older men and women, those with type 2 diabetes have lower baseline general cognition scores and experience a steeper cognitive decline subsequently.

Researchers at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have solved the structure of a class of proteins known as sodium glucose co-transporters (SGLTs), which pump glucose into cells.

Diabetes sufferers may soon draw breath to take new treatment and one day be inhaling an insulin solution to manage the condition.

Neonatal diabetes is an extremely rare condition, and infants who suffer from it typically require insulin injections to survive. Treating these infants with an oral medication — which dramatically improves their quality of life — has been successful in only a handful of children worldwide.