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Meals from fast-food chains contain excessive amounts of salt, a new study has shown. Over half of all purchases exceeded the 1500-mg daily limit of sodium advised for most Americans, and this rose to 84% of meals when only fried-chicken outlets were considered. Only one in 36 purchases met the …

Findings show grape consumption lowered blood pressure, improved heart function and reduced other risk factors for heart disease and metabolic syndrome….

Diabetes education and dietitian counseling, without intervention by an endocrinologist, can improve glycemic control and promote weight loss in patients with Type 2 diabetes who also have poor literacy, according to a study.…

Type 2 diabetes can be prevented or delayed with moderate weight loss and exercise but only about one in three Americans have taken action to reduce their risk….

Canadians live longer and in better health than do their American counterparts, researchers said.…

Patients with diabetic nephropathy (kidney disease caused by diabetes) who received high dose B-vitamin therapy experienced a more rapid decline in kidney function and had a higher rate of heart attack and stroke than patients who received placebo, according to a study….

Latinos have higher rates of developing visual impairment, blindness, diabetic eye disease, and cataracts than non-Hispanic whites, researchers found….

More than 70,000 Americans a year die from complications of diabetes, making it the country’s fifth-largest medical killer. While that sounds dire, Novo Nordisk says the real picture is much worse….

Bariatric surgery may appear to cure diabetes based on measurements such as fasting plasma glucose and hemoglobin A1c, but postprandial glucose can still be elevated say researchers….

Diabetes is linked to a 40 percent greater risk of developing atrial fibrillation — the most common kind of chronically irregular heartbeat, researchers found in a new study.…