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Scientists have identified a key enzyme that significantly increases the risk of neural tube defects such as spina bifida and some heart defects among babies born to women with diabetes.…

Children exposed to metformin had larger measures of subcutaneous fat, but overall body fat was the same as in children whose mothers were treated with insulin alone.…

A natural compound found in the body, called nicotinamide mononucleotide, or NMN, is found to help restore normal blood sugar metabolism.…

We need to do a better job. Research by the New England Healthcare Institute shows that patients who don’t take their medications as prescribed, cost the U.S. health care system an estimated $290 billion in avoidable medical spending each year.…

Optimizing weight "should be a priority" in the management of patients with type 2 diabetes….

Physical activity only has a modest effect in lowering chronic disease risk factors.…

Asians may need lower body mass index (BMI) cutpoints for overweight and obesity.…

A new Swedish study has shown that elderly men in the highest quartile of serum testosterone levels have around a 30 percent lower risk of cardiovascular events over five years compared with men in the lower three quartiles….

Sitagliptin significantly improved overall glucose control, including postprandial and 24-h glucose control, in adult patients with Type 1 diabetes, while significantly reducing prandial insulin requirements.…

In a new study of more than 36,000 patients who had participated in the ESRD [end-stage renal disease] Clinical Performance Measures Project, investigators found that on the day after the long weekend interdialytic interval, all cause mortality, cardiac mortality, vascular mortality, admissions for cardiovascular disease, as well as infection-related mortality …