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Diabetes increases the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia and the risk is stronger when diabetes occurs at mid-life than in late life according to university researchers in Sweden….

New blood sugar measurements used to determine gestational diabetes will mean that lower levels may pose risks for mother and baby….

“Avosentan reduces albuminuria when added to standard treatment in people with Type 2 diabetes and overt nephropathy but induces significant fluid overload and congestive heart failure,” the study authors write. “Of particular concern was a trend to a higher mortality with avosentan….

Increases in fasting plasma glucose during childhood — even though levels remain in the normal range 85-100mg/dL.) — can predict adult prediabetes and Type 2 diabetes later in life, a retrospective cohort study showed.…

A family history of diabetes increases a woman’s risk of developing gestational diabetes, a new study confirms….

Some older people with mild memory-loss are three times more likely to develop dementia if they also have diabetes….

Researchers found that older people with memory loss are three times more likely to develop dementia if they also have diabetes.

Inherited genetic variations exist between whites and blacks living in the U.S., leading to less efficient metabolism of glucose and predisposition to diabetes in blacks.

Older adults who used the herbal supplement Ginkgo biloba for several years did not have a slower rate of cognitive decline compared to adults who received placebo, according to a new study.

Cells in your body are constantly churning out poisonous forms of oxygen (oxidants) and mopping them up with a countervailing force of proteins and chemicals (anti-oxidants). This balancing act of oxidative stress is particularly likely to go haywire in beta cells, the insulin-producing cells that malfunction and then start to die …