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Postprandial hyperglycemia is more common than fasting hyperglycemia in type 2 diabetic patients who show nocturnal nondipping of blood pressure.

Hitting the treadmill, the bike trails, or donning your rollerblades can modestly increase high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels, according to the results of a new study.

Study found that when the women’s weight was taken into account, sleep apnea was associated with a doubling of the incidence of gestational diabetes and a fourfold increase in the risk of pregnancy-induced hypertension.

Even small amounts of physical activity — approximately 75 minutes per week — can improve cardiorespiratory fitness levels of sedentary overweight individuals, a study shows.

Patients diagnosed with sleep apnea had more than two-and-one-half times the risk of developing diabetes and increases a person’s risk of having a heart attack or of dying by 30 percent compared with those without the nighttime breathing disorder

People who develop diabetes late in life often suffer from a range of diabetes-related complications, and their life expectancy is shorter than that of nondiabetic individuals of the same age, a new study shows.

New study shows that nearly a quarter of all African-Americans still believe that high blood pressure means that a person is tense or anxious

Results from a six-month extension study have shown that impairment in glycemic control after one year of diuretic-based combination treatment is reversible by switching to treatment not involving a diuretic, in this case, an ACE inhibitor and calcium-channel blocker.1 

The results of this study suggest that the use of certain types of hormonal contraceptives during the 5 years leading up to a pregnancy may be associated with the risk of developing gestational diabetes.

With the incidence of type 2 diabetes and its complications among young people on the increase worldwide, aggressive measures are needed to treat and prevent the disease, two diabetes experts say in the current issue (May 26) of The lancet.