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Metformin beta-amyloid effect raises Alzheimer’s concerns. Diabetes is associated with increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), but a new study of metformin suggests that diabetes treatments might bear some of the blame.

More than half of Americans fear developing diabetes, but many continue the unhealthy behaviors that boost their odds of getting the blood sugar disease, a new survey shows.

The results are in and both coffee and chocolate have health benefits, but to what extent?

A rise in blood sugar levels causes poorer brain function in people with type 2 diabetes, according to a study that included nearly 3,000 people aged 55 and older at 52 sites in Canada and the United States.

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

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

Diabetes increases the risk for dementia, including vascular dementia and Alzheimer’s disease (AD), by 125%, especially if onset is in midlife, a population-based study suggests.

Treatment of mild gestational diabetes yields clinical benefit, a randomized trial showed. Although a composite endpoint of neonatal morbidity did not differ between the treatment group and the controls, rates of Caesarean delivery (P=0.021) and shoulder dystocia (P=0.019) were significantly reduced by treatment.

Nearly one-third of U.S. adults age 65 and older have diabetes, while an additional 30 percent have pre-diabetes, researchers said.

People diagnosed with diabetes before the age of 65 are more than twice as likely to develop dementia, according to the results of a new study.