Looking for 10,000 seniors on Medicare to participate in a free program to prevent diabetes….
Read More »Novel Racial/Ethnic Differences Found in Diabetic Kidney Disease
Minorities more likely to have proteinuric DKD; less likely to have nonproteinuric DKD….
Read More »Diabetes Screens May Not Help Heart Long Term
It remains unclear whether diabetes screening at routine primary care visits will ultimately improve cardiovascular outcomes for patients….
Read More »Different Sugars Have Different Effects
Glucose appears to temper brain activity in regions that regulate appetite and reward but fructose does not….
Read More »The Best Diet to Avoid Diabetes
For the third year in a row, the DASH Diet Eating Plan has been named the best overall diet by U.S. News & World Report….
Read More »Enzymes for Prediabetes
Two enzymes that are elevated in prediabetes could hold clues to helping the 79 million Americans with the condition avoid serious vascular complications and even identify those most at risk for full-blown diabetes….
Read More »Diabetes Diagnosis More Likely in Lower-Income Groups
The rate of new diabetes diagnosis is inversely related to income, a new study has shown. "There was a 20% higher risk of diabetes in the lowest 2 income groups compared with the highest group, which translated into an extra 2500 diagnoses of diabetes for that year."…
Read More »Undiagnosed Diabetes and Pre-Diabetes
More than 25 million people in the U.S. have diabetes, indicates the American Diabetes Association, and of those, only 18.8 million have been formally diagnosed with the disease…. In fact, some 7 million people live with undiagnosed diabetes, and as many as 79 million people in the United States live …
Read More »A Little Extra Fat Is Beneficial
A report last week that people who are slightly overweight have less chance of dying than those of normal weight had some researchers calling for further study of how a little extra fat can apparently be good for you. But others saw it as another sign that the standard way …
Read More »Wealth Impacts Mortality in Diabetes Patients
Socioeconomic status, as measured by education and financial wealth, is a strong independent predictor of mortality risk among adult diabetes patients….
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