A review of two intensive therapies to lower blood glucose levels in newly diagnosed Type 2 patients…
Read More »Urine Protein Analysis May Help Spot Diabetic Nephropathy
Certain urine proteomic profiles may be useful biomarkers in the differential diagnosis of diabetic glomerulosclerosis, researchers report in Diabetes Care…
Read More »Lifestyle Over and Above Drugs in Diabetes Study
Intensive dietary advice has the potential to appreciably improve glycemic control and anthropometric measures in patients with Type 2 diabetes who are hyperglycemic despite optimized drug treatment…
Read More »Therapeutic Potential of Aleglitazar, a New Dual PPAR Agonist
Given the prevalence of lipid abnormalities in patients with diabetes, dual PPAR-α/γ agonists (glitazars) could potentially benefit patients with diabetes. A phase II trial examining a novel dual PPAR agonist, aleglitazar, showed that therapy with this agent reduced hyperglycemia and favorably modified levels of HDL-C and triglycerides with an acceptable …
Read More »Switching Statins Often Leads to Wrong Doses: Not All Statins Are the Same
A third of patients on lipid-lowering therapy received inadequate doses of generic simvastatin after being switched from atorvastatin (Lipitor), an analysis of a large pharmacy database showed…
Read More »Coffee Limbers Up the Heart
A daily coffee habit may counteract aortic stiffness in older adults with hypertension, researchers reported…
Read More »Insulin Users Have 50% Higher Cancer Risk; Causes Unclear
Diabetes patients who take insulin have a higher risk of developing cancer, according to Danish researchers who say they can’t explain the link…
Read More »Childhood Factors May Predict Diabetes Later in Life
Common office-based measures in childhood appear to predict the chances of having Type 2 diabetes later in life, researchers found…
Read More »The Association of Hemoglobin A1c with Heart Failure among People without Diabetes
Elevated A1c (≥5.5–6.0%) was associated with incident heart failure in a middle-aged population without diabetes, suggesting that chronic hyperglycemia prior to the development of diabetes contributes to development of heart failure…
Read More »Mothers Who Don’t Breastfeed Have Double Risk of Diabetes
Mothers who breastfeed their children have a considerably lower risk of developing Type 2 diabetes when they are older compared to women who have never breastfed, according to researchers….
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