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Insulin sensitizers may benefit nondiabetic patients with hypertension.

Tissue switching could lead to new diabetes treatment.

Rosiglitazone and metformin monotherapy have different effects on adipose tissue distribution and glucose uptake in type 2 diabetics.

Diabetic children with treated asthma experience significantly fewer episodes of hypoglycemia and better glycemic control than do children with diabetes alone.

Intense, long-term intervention for Type 2 diabetes cuts risk of cardiovascular (CV) and microvascular events by about half.

Topical oxygen successfully heals difficult-to-treat wounds, according to a case series published in the January issue of Pathophysiology.

Hypertension is more likely to be inadequately controlled in diabetic patients than in nondiabetics.

Cigarette smoking increases oxidant stress and thereby progressive renal injury in patients with type 2 diabetes.

Patients given an ACE inhibitor or angiotensin II-receptor antagonist, regardless of blood pressure, a aspirin 150 mg q.d. and a vitamin-mineral supplement that included chrome picolinate.

The UK government last week a new 10-year strategy to tackle diabetes, which includes a promise that by 2007 all diabetics will have eye screening to prevent complications that can lead to blindness.