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….
Read More »Less than a Minute a Day ‘Keeps Diabetes Away’
Performing short cycle sprints three times a week could be enough to prevent and possibly treat type 2 diabetes.…
Read More »The Final Word on Chocolate Intake and Benefits to the Heart and Brain
A study by Buitrago-Lopez and colleagues found that daily chocolate consumption had a positive effect on cardiovascular risk factors.…
Read More »Strict Glycemic Control May Not Help Kidney Patients
Both tight glycemic control and poor glycemic control are associated with worse outcomes in diabetes patients with chronic kidney disease.…
Read More »Glycemic Control Linked to Brain Function and Structure
An accelerated decline in brain function is an important risk that needs to be examined further in relation to glycemic control in older people with long-standing diabetes.…
Read More »Diabetes Patients Can Benefit from n-3 Fatty Acids
Use of a margarine fortified with n-3 fatty acids significantly reduced post-myocardial infarction ventricular arrhythmia-related events by 84% among diabetic patients….
Read More »Treating Prehypertension Reduces Risk of Stroke by 22 Percent
Patients with prehypertension who take blood pressure-lowering therapy have a highly statistically significant 22% reduced risk for stroke….
Read More »Genetic Disorder Leads to Diabetes Therapy
Clues to development of the pancreas provided by rare genetic disorder could lead to diabetes therapy.…
Read More »GLP-1 Lixisenatide Phase III Results
Adding lixisenatide to metformin and insulin glargine significantly reduced glycated hemoglobin levels and improved post-prandial glucose in patients with type 2 diabetes….
Read More »Antihypertensive Drugs More Effective When Taken at Night
Taking antihypertensive medications at bedtime rather than in the morning has been shown to be associated with an increase in bedtime BP decline toward a dipping pattern and better BP control and reduction in urinary protein excretion….
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