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2-year study looked at more than 10,000 Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes.

A new Italian study has shown, for the first time, that consuming moderate amounts of dark chocolate can significantly reduce levels of C-reactive protein (CRP).

The prevalence of diabetes is similar between patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) and those without PD, according to a new in the September issue of Diabetes Care.

Study demonstrated that one third of males with type 2 diabetes had subnormal free testosterone concentrations and that most of these patients had TT and FT concentrations in the low normal or subnormal range.

In the UKPDS in the metformin group, significant risk reductions persisted for any diabetes-related end point (21%), myocardial infarction (33%), and death from any cause (27%).

In a postmortem study of patients who had Alzheimer’s disease, those who also had diabetes and were treated with insulin and oral hypoglycemic drugs had lower densities of neural plaques in the brain, a hallmark of this dementia, than did other diabetics or those without diabetes, new research shows.

This is according to an American study. Its authors recommend screening for diabetes, arterial hypertension and cardiovascular disease in patients with COPD.

Emerging diabetes drugs consider beta cell mass and function as an important targe.

Eating oily fish containing docosahexaenoic acid and eicosapentaenoic acid at least once a week appears to decrease the risk of developing wet age-related macular degeneration by half, according to a large population-based study.

Individuals who have a genetic mutation associated with high body mass index (BMI) may be able to offset their increased risk for obesity through physical activity, according to the results of a study.