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New recommendations include: specific instructions for lifestyle intervention, and that pharmacotherapy be started at an A1c of six percent. It is estimated that there will be 418 million people worldwide with prediabetes by 2025.

Sheri Colberg, Ph.D., FACSM, has been helping patients with diabetes successfully increase physical activity for many years and has written numerous books that patients and clinicians use. Most of her work recently has been about insulin and exercise, but many of you have written me to ask, “What about oral …

Metformin decreases the rate of conversion from prediabetes to diabetes…

Older adults with Type 2 diabetes who experience an episode of hypoglycemia serious enough to require a trip to the emergency department or admission to the hospital are at increased risk of developing dementia, new research suggests.

In a new report, researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found a gene that may be involved in the link between Type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease. Previous research has found that healthy elderly people with Type 2 diabetes are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease, but …

A new study has uncovered evidence that pregnant women with periodontal (gum) disease face an increased risk of developing gestational diabetes even if they

Among patients with incident Alzheimer’s disease, total and LDL cholesterol concentrations before diagnosis and a history of diabetes are associated with faster cognitive decline. Specifically, each 10-mg/dL increase in total cholesterol or LDL-C concentration was associated with an additional …

The study showed that “intensively lowering blood glucose to a target of 81 to 108 mg/dL does not benefit critically ill patients and may well increase their risk of…

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.