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More than half of Americans fear developing diabetes, but many continue the unhealthy behaviors that boost their odds of getting the blood sugar disease, a new survey shows.

A new review is coming out that is building on the suggested link between the consumption of fructose and increased food intake contributing to a high incidence of obesity and Type 2 diabetes.

Afresa is an ultra rapid-acting insulin. It is a drug-device combination product, consisting of Afresa Inhalation Powder pre-metered into single unit dose cartridges and the Afresa Inhaler as the delivery device for oral inhalation. Its pharmacokinetic profile make it different then Exubera, which was removed from the market.

Recommended Moderate Exercise Equals About 100 Steps Per Minute. The results showed that for men the number of steps per minute to reach moderate-intensity exercise was ….Full Story:

The QDScore, which includes both social deprivation and ethnicity, is the first risk prediction algorithm to estimate the 10-year risk for diabetes.

Eating out in restaurants, laid back attitude towards exercise, and leading high-risk lifestyles are some of the barriers that stop patients with Type 2 diabetes from controlling their condition, say researchers.

New guidance on how aspirin should be used in both the primary and secondary prevention of coronary heart disease has come from three new reports published this last week. Results showed no overall differences in….Full Story 

US researchers say even a small reduction in the amount of salt in the daily diet would have a huge public-health impact. Cutting just 1 g of salt a day would prevent a quarter of a million new heart-disease cases and 200,000 deaths from any cause over a decade.

African Americans have about a one-in-100 chance of developing heart failure while still in their 30s or 40s, a far higher rate than in whites, and their risk of heart failure at that age is closely tied to whether they have hypertension, obesity, or renal dysfunction earlier in adulthood.

It has been known for a long time that excess weight shortens human lifespan. The body mass index (BMI) is a strong predictor of overall mortality both above and below the apparent optimum of about 22.5 -25 kg/m2.