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People at risk for heart disease can lower their risk dramatically and quickly with exercise and dieting, that from a current study.

McDonald’s Makes Kids Fat, Lawyers Say. Lawyers have filed a class-action lawsuit against McDonald’s on behalf of New York children who have suffered health problems, including diabetes, high blood pressure, and obesity.

Diabetes accounts for at least 3.6% of all deaths and 5.2% of CVD deaths in US adults.

Giving atorvastatin every other day was as effective in lowering low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels as giving it daily, saving more than $269/patient.

Miglitol decreased hunger and increased feelings of satiety after a meal in obese, diabetic patients

Are the current definitions of impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) and impaired fasting glycemia (IFG) appropriate? Are IFG and IGT risk factors, risk markers or diseases? These are just a couple of the questions addressed.

Treatment with the ACE inhibitor ramipril may help prevent the development of diabetes as well as lower the risk of heart attack, stroke, and cardiovascular mortality in patients at high risk for cardiovascular events.

A group of researchers led by Dr Johannes Plank from the Karl-Franzens University of Graz in Austria, compared the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic profiles of insulin aspart and insulin lispro and their effects on postprandial blood glucose excursions in patients with type 1 diabetes.

The use of medications for diabetes is a marker for underlying disease severity.

Visceral fat removal can halt a decrease in insulin action and delay the onset of diabetes. researchers report in the October issue of Diabetes.