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The current standard screening test for prediabetes in children often fails to detect the condition, Canadian researchers contend.

A study of women with gestational diabetes has demonstrated that insulin resistance is associated with an increased risk for adverse outcomes in pregnancy and birth for mothers and newborns.

Principal investigator Dr. Osama Hamdy told the audience at the ADA scientific sessions that, “We’ve been glucose-focused for a long time. We need to be weight-focused. We need to focus on the cause of the problem and not the result of the problem.”

Coffee intake does not increase the risk for all-cause mortality in men or women and may decrease risk for cardiovascular mortality, according to the results of a new study.

Patients who dropped most pounds went off diabetes meds and into remission, study found

Results of a new study show which information from oral glucose tolerance tests can be used independently predict mortality.

Further evidence that long-term use of the thiazolidinediones rosiglitazone and pioglitazone may increase risk of fractures (particularly of the hip and wrist) has come from a new case-control study.

Hearing loss may be an under-recognized complication of diabetes, according to U.S. researchers, who found hearing loss to be roughly twice as common in people who have the disease as those who do not.

Scientists at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston have found that a defect in the beta cells that make and release insulin has implications for the failure of these cells and the development of type 2 diabetes.

Lack of exposure to the sun could play a role in development of type 1 diabetes and that vitamin D supplementation in early childhood may offer protection against the development of type 1 diabetes.