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Both short- and long-term measures of blood glucose can be used to predict the risk of retinopathy….

Lowering blood pressure early during acute stroke did nothing to improve outcomes and may actually impair patients’ ability to live independently later on….

Getting lots of dietary fiber appears to reduce the risk of dying — particularly from cardiovascular, infectious, or respiratory diseases….

If untreated, a large proportion of people who develop proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) will experience severe loss of vision within 5 years….

Researchers are challenging guidelines that urge diabetes patients to cut back on salt in their diet….

Although zinc may be helpful in treating and preventing the common cold in otherwise healthy individuals, the benefits come at the expense of some side effects, a Cochrane review showed….

A 22-year study of abnormally short individuals suggests that growth-stunting mutations may stunt two of humanity’s worst diseases, diabetes and cancer….

Children who develop risk factors for Type 2 diabetes before hitting puberty may also be more likely to have weak bones in adulthood….

The study investigated whether capillary glucose concentrations, as measured in the first and second drops of blood, differed ≥10% compared with a control glucose concentration in different situations….

Researchers have discovered a novel function of brain insulin, indicating that impaired brain insulin action may be the cause of the unrestrained lipolysis that initiates and worsens Type 2 diabetes….