For primary prevention in patients with diabetes without established cardiovascular disease, statin therapy could reduce the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events, but not all-cause mortality….
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A couple of handfuls of pistachio nuts eaten with a high-glycemic meal such as pasta can do wonders for postprandial glucose and insulin levels, especially in people with metabolic syndrome.…
Read More »ADA Warns against New Driving Restrictions for Diabetes Patients
ADA has warned against blanket driving restrictions, instead recommending individual assessment….
Read More »Scientists Discover a New Treatment for Type 1 Diabetes
Scientists discover that the beta-cells need heparin sulphate to survive.…
Read More »Research Finds That Patients with Diabetes Should Take More Vitamin B12 Daily
People who have type 2 diabetes and are taking metformin should take more than the recommended daily allowance of vitamin B12.…
Read More »Diabetes Reversed with Investigational Weight Loss Drug
Slightly more than a year of treatment with an investigational obesity drug that the FDA rejected for approval last year reversed type 2 diabetes in 15% of subjects.…
Read More »Testosterone Replacement Improves Male Metabolic Syndrome
Testosterone replacement to normal levels in middle-aged and elderly hypogonadal men significantly improved all components of the metabolic syndrome at 24 months.…
Read More »Ninety-two Percent of Obese Kids Have a Vitamin D Deficiency
Overweight kids have lower levels of vitamin D than their slimmer counterparts, regardless of season, sex, or race and ethnicity.…
Read More »Low Carbs for Just Two Days a Week Spurs Weight Loss
Adhering to a strict, low-carbohydrate diet two days per week led to greater reductions in weight and insulin levels when compared with standard daily dieting.…
Read More »Flight and Fight Can Be Key to Weight Loss
Patients’ activity in the sympathetic nervous system that controls the fight or flight response appears to predict how well they will do when trying to lose weight….
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