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Fructose appears to pose more problems with insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, and visceral adipose tissue in heavy patients than its companion sugar glucose…

Metformin decreases the rate of conversion from prediabetes to diabetes…

Subjects who preferred very well done steak were nearly 60 percent as likely to get pancreatic cancer as those who ate steak less well done or did not eat meat at all…

Eating salmon or other fatty fish just once a week helped reduce men’s risk of heart failure, adding to growing evidence that omega-3 fatty acids improve cardiac health…

With Lilly/Amylin’s submission of their once a week Byetta, another company, Intarcia Therapeutics, Inc., announces completion of enrollment of ITCA 650 phase 1b study for the treatment of Type 2 diabetes with their once a year dosing of Byetta…

Plasma C-reactive protein (CRP) values are associated with mortality risk in patients with Type 2 diabetes, but are no more useful than traditional risk factors for predicting 5-year mortality in this population…

The ability to identify major fetal anomalies by ultrasonography is reduced in pregnant women who are obese or diabetic, according to researchers…

Regulation of foot temperature in patients with diabetes, with or without diabetic polyneuropathy, is significantly impaired during sleep, according to a recently published study…

New research suggests that when combined with lifestyle modification, treatment with the alpha- glucosidase inhibitor, voglibose, may help prevent Type 2 diabetes in high-risk individuals with impaired glucose tolerance…

Studies continue to show that sleep curtailment or decreased sleep quality can disturb neuroendocrine control of appetite, leading to overeating, and can decrease insulin or increase insulin resistance, both steps on the road to Type 2 diabetes