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When celiac disease is diagnosed before diabetes mellitus, clinical presentation of the diabetes is severe, say researchers.

Nearly 90 percent of the study subjects had a history of high blood pressure, but more than 25 percent did not take medication to control it.

A Manhattan judge has chucked the Big Mac attack lawsuit brought on behalf of eight tubby teens who sued McDonald’s for making them diabetic or fat.

Mississippi is on the top rung for obesity.

Acute reduction of circulating fatty acids with Acipimox improves insulin secretion in type 2 diabetic patients with low hemoglobin A1c levels.

Impaired heart rate variability is associated with an increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) In type 2 diabetics.

ACE inhibitors do not appear to stop retinopathy from progressing from moderate to severe in type 2 diabetics, according to a recent report.

Two studies yielded “diametrically opposite results.

Researchers discover that a blood-borne molecule known to make human serum also makes fat cells.

An increase in subcutaneous abdominal fat appears to increase fasting insulin levels in growing children, according to a report in Obesity Research.