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Hyperglycemia during critical illness may be used as a warning of future diabetes. Researchers have found a significant association between acute illness complicated with hyperglycemia and the future development of Type 2 diabetes or glucose intolerance.…

A common test to diagnose gestational diabetes — a temporary condition which can harm both mother and child if left untreated — also has predictive power for Type 2 adult-onset diabetes, a new Tel Aviv University study finds…. 

Hot weather and diabetes can make for a potentially dangerous combination, according to a Mayo Clinic presentation. The ability to sweat in the heat can be impaired in some patients with diabetes. Also, glucose strips and medications can become ineffective.…

Let your patients with diabetes and no insurance know that, beginning July 1, individuals with pre-existing health conditions as diabetes are eligible to enroll in a temporary high-risk insurance pool, courtesy of the health care reform law…. 

Patients with hypertension, diabetes and coronary artery disease who maintained their systolic blood pressure at less than 130 mm Hg, as recommended by the American Diabetes Association, did not have improved cardiovascular outcomes compared to patients with usual blood pressure control, according to a study….

Group medical clinics are a potent strategy for improving blood pressure but not A1c level in diabetic patients as previous studies have shown…. 

This study supports the concept that high dietary glycemic carbohydrate is associated with a higher prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in adolescents….

Study shows visually impaired people can use insulin pens even though the labels on the popular insulin pen used by people with diabetes warn against visually-impaired people using pens to measure out and administer their insulin dosage….

Patients with Type 1 diabetes who have higher than recommended A1c levels may benefit from treatment with sitagliptin….

Results of two related trials investigating the effects of statins on urinary protein excretion and kidney function found atorvastatin (ATV) protective and rosuvastatin (RSV) unprotective, and possibly harmful, in diabetic and nondiabetic patients.…