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For people with type 2 diabetes, when pioglitazone and glipizide are given in doses sufficient to achieve equivalent glycemic control, pioglitazone increases total body water, thereby accounting for the majority of weight gain, and decreased visceral and abdominal fat content.

“It is possible that the insulin deficiency happens when the crystals don’t form properly and then part of the insulin that is produced gets destroyed.”

Clinical Screening Tool Developed for Identifying Type 1&1/2 Diabetes Adult Latent Autoimmune Diabetes The presence of 2 or more clinical risk factors for latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA) may be useful for identifying adults at high risk for LADA who require islet antibody testing, a new report suggests.

Scientists have discovered a gene that plays a role in the most common type of type 2 diabetes, and they say the discovery could pave the way to a targeted treatment.

How many times do your patients ask you “is there a diabetes heredity” or “am I going to pass on the diabetes genes to my kids”. What do you tell them? Yes, No, or Maybe? What about all that stuff that says Type 1 is an autoimmune disease, does that …

Eric S. Freedland, MD, Boston University School of Medicine, explains the Implications of Controlling Dietary Carbohydrates and other methods to reduce VAT. In the final part of his groundbreaking series The Role Of A Critical Visceral Adipose Tissue Threshold (CVATT) In Metabolic Syndrome Role of A Critical Visceral Adipose Tissue …

Findings from a study suggest that primary beta-cell dysfunction plays a key role in the pathogenesis of low birth weight (LBW)-associated type 2 diabetes.

Chronic angiotensin II receptor blockade with olmesartan improves renal vascular perfusion despite significant blood pressure reductions in patients with type 2 diabetes.

Paul Chous, M.A., O.D. Doctor of Optometry Type 1 diabetic since 1968 Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of new blindness for persons under age 74 in the US. Recognized risk factors for the development and progression of diabetic retinopathy include disease duration, poor glycemic control, hypertension and disease sub-type. …

Although hypoglycemia affects both types of diabetics, episodes are much more common and frequent in Type I diabetics. Hypoglycemia causes the body to respond with number of counterregulatory hormones.[i] [ii] Their most likely sequence of hormonal activation are glucagon, epinephrine and then if hypoglycemia is severe or prolonged cortisol and …