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Type 2 Diabetics with elevated Homocysteine are almost two times more likely to die within 5 years than non diabetic patients. As the popularity of high protein diets like Atkins and South Beach grows, so does the probability that the people on them will be at risk for something greater …

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 …

Thiazolidinediones Can Prevent And Postpone Type 2 Diabetes Significant improvement in HbA1c levels from baseline were found in patients treated with TZDs

If a man with type 2 diabetes also suffers from erectile dysfunction (ED), it strongly suggests that he could well have coronary artery disease that’s not causing any symptoms.

New guidelines from the American Diabetes Association will place even more people into the “prediabetes” category. At least 20% more which, could mean 30 million people with “prediabetes.”

A blood glucose reading of 100mg/dL is Prediabetes. The newer threshold or cut-off point for fasting plasma glucose will increase those with Prediabetes to 5 million more with Prediabetes.

Early data suggest that, in addition to reducing hyperglycemia, pioglitazone and rosiglitazone effect changes in the dyslipidemic profile, hemodynamics, vascular inflammation, and endothelial functioning of patients with type 2 diabetes

Having diabetes along with high blood pressure dramatically raises the risk of brain lesions known as “silent strokes.”

Treating dyslipidemia in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus without cardiovascular disease appears to result in a clinical benefit equivalent to or greater than that seen with treating non-diabetic cardiovascular disease patients.

Insulin treatment achieves better results in patients with recent onset type 2 diabetes than does therapy with glibenclamide.