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We are what we eat, or so the saying goes, but new research suggests that we may be what our parents and grandparents ate as well.

Vascular surgery should not be withheld from patients with diabetes. Even though during 5 years of follow-up, patients with diabetes had about a 50% mortality rate, compared with about a 25% rate among the other patients in the series.

OGTT was not required to identify the large majority of diabetic patients in this two-step screening procedure.”

Obese men who participated in a 3-week program that included a high-fiber, low-fat diet and daily exercise in blood pressure, oxidative stress, nitric oxide availability and metabolic profile.

Cost of medical care for a person with diabetes: $10,071 per year, compared with $2,669 for a person without diabetes.

Premenopausal women with high fasting glucose levels were almost three times as likely to develop breast cancer as premenopausal women whose fasting glucose levels were low.

Treating diabetic patients with the cholesterol-lowering drug niacin does not result in increased heart attacks or mortality, despite historical evidence that niacin raises blood sugars.

That according to 2 recent studies in the American Journal of Hypertension and Nutrition.

Study shows improved outcomes with the use of the continuous glucose monitoring system (CGMS) designed for home use (MiniMed, Sylmar, California).

That’s more than 60 million Americans that could become diabetic