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Severe obesity is associated with a high risk for depression, especially those with diabetes and among young women with poor body image. However, depression improves with loss of weight.

In diabetics, intensive control of blood sugar levels seems to slow the progression of kidney disease many years after such control has ended, new research shows.

Now, new research has shown that grafts derived from a patient’s skin cells can help some diabetic ulcers heal faster, These findings come from a study, published in the current issue of Diabetes Care, that compared such grafts with standard gauze dressings in 79 diabetics with ulcers on the top …

Young adults, age 18-44, who get type 2 diabetes are 14 times more likely to suffer a heart attack and up to 30 times more likely to have a stroke than their peers without diabetes Stroke Risk Increased Up to 30 Times.

A case of poorly controlled insulin-dependent diabetes led to liver glycogen deposition and abnormal liver enzymes. That, from researchers at the 68th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology

Intensive diabetes treatment to sustain near-normal glycemia has an extended benefit of delaying the progression of diabetic nephropathy.

Current clinical management of type 2 diabetes is focused on treatment of the signs and symptoms of late-stage disease rather than addressing potential underlying causes.

Findings have important implications for patient management and selection of treatment. Individuals with maturity-onset diabetes of the young caused by heterozygous mutations in the hepatocyte nuclear factor HNF-1a gene have a greater response to sulphonylurea than do patients with type 2 diabetes according to the findings from a randomised crossover …

Metformin treatment leads to an increase in homocysteine levels in patients with type 2 diabetes who take insulin. Adding B6, folic acid and B12 to treatment regimen, might lower homocysteine levels and reduce the risk of CVD. This comes from a recent report from Bethesda General Hospital, Hoogeveen, Netherlands.

FINDING A LUMP in your breast can be terrifying and your first thought may be that it is Cancer! Did you know that diabetes could be the cause?