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Doctors tell lawmakers to subsidize salads, vegetables and fruit, not fat don’t exercise is going to cost them and the taxpayers, plus they will lose years from their lifespan.

As diabetes rates soar, doctors with the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons say they’re noticing more patients developing a rare and dangerous diabetic foot complication. Few patients or their diabetes care providers know of the complication, or its warnings signs.

A New Zealand bio-tech company is trumpeting a major breakthrough after a diabetic given a trial transplant of pig cells was able to stop her insulin injections.

The use of statins is associated with better blood pressure control in hypertensive subjects. This comes from a cross-sectional study of a representative sample of US adults.

Just as the Epic-Norfolk study showed a 28% increase in cardiovascular death from those that had an A1c of 5% compared to those with a 6%, in this study they found that higher levels of glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) is associated with poor outcomes after myocardial infarction (MI) in patients without diabetes.

A sizable minority of asymptomatic diabetic patients without known coronary artery disease have reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), comes from a review of records of patients referred for stress single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT).

New published study results suggest that patients who develop type 2 diabetes while they are on treatment for essential hypertension have a higher cardiac morbidity than their counterparts without diabetes.

At the same time Levemir provides significantly improved glycemic control and reduced rates of hypoglycemia.

Inflammation in patients with type 2 diabetes is independent of obesity, an observation that may partly explain the increased risk of cardiovascular disease among patients with diabetes.

A retrospective analysis of 69,418 patients with diabetes showed that elevated A1C levels were statistically significantly associated with higher risk of macrovascular events.