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Every 2-point increase in adherence corresponded to a 33% reduction coronary heart disease mortality and a 24% reduction in cancer mortality.

Nineteen billion cost for peripheral neuropathy, most of it preventable with early diagnosis and treatment.

Screening discovers 33% of undetected patients with hypertension, diabetes and kidney dysfunction.

Diabetic neuropathy is underdiagnosed in everyday clinical practice, according to a study of 7,378 patients assessed at more than 2,000 primary care physician offices and endocrinology clinics.

People with diabetes who consume up to seven alcoholic drinks per week have a 35% reduction in all-cause mortality, compared with diabetics who abstain.

Patients who received acarbose were 49% less likely than others to develop heart disease or related problems

The federal government should put money behind a recently launched national walking program, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said, day.

Use of antibiotics, especially penicillin, is associated with a decreased risk of stroke.

Nutrition and lifestyle approaches to diabetes prevention and treatment should be given as much attention as drug therapies.”

Hyperbaric oxygen doubles the mean healing rate of nonischemic chronic foot ulcers in selected diabetic patients.