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Insulin Glargine has become the most widely used insulin in the USA owing to its long duration of action without a pronounced peak. This introduction of a new form of insulin has made a dramatic effect on the ability of people to control their blood sugars. But is it being used …

In prospective cohort studies, higher coffee consumption has been associated with a lower risk of Type 2 diabetes. Associations have been similar for caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee suggesting that coffee components other than caffeine have beneficial effects on glucose homeostasis…

What type of life-saving heart operation you should undergo — bypass surgery or angioplasty — largely depends on your age and whether you have diabetes, according to the largest-ever assessment of the two rival procedures. Stanford University researchers found significantly lower death rates among patients….

Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is commonly associated with the smell of rotten eggs, stink bombs and blocked drains but lower blood levels of the gas are possibly linked to cardiovascular complications in some male patients with Type 2 diabetes. More information…

The combination therapy can decrease Type 2 diabetes morbidity and mortality…

A gene called neurogenin3 proved critical to inducing cells in the liver to produce insulin on a continuing basis. They found that these “islet” cells came from a small population of adult stem cells usually found near the portal vein. Only a few are needed usually because.…

The amount of calcium your body absorbs might depend in part on the amount of dietary fiber you consume and new findings suggest that dietary fiber reduces ….

Among patients with incident Alzheimer’s disease, total and LDL cholesterol concentrations before diagnosis and a history of diabetes are associated with faster cognitive decline. Specifically, each 10-mg/dL increase in total cholesterol or LDL-C concentration was associated with an additional …

The study showed that “intensively lowering blood glucose to a target of 81 to 108 mg/dL does not benefit critically ill patients and may well increase their risk of…

Metformin beta-amyloid effect raises Alzheimer’s concerns. Diabetes is associated with increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), but a new study of metformin suggests that diabetes treatments might bear some of the blame.