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A new pizza dough mixture which incorporates cholesterol-lowering plant sterols is set to further expand the market for functional snack foods.

A multidisciplinary team of researchers finds no evidence to support the widely held view that the “thrifty genotype” theory explains racial differences in the prevalence of obesity and type 2 diabetes.

Poor mood may lead to less exercise and worsening diet and depression appears to raise the odds for diabetes in older people, researchers report.

A high titer of autoantibodies to GAD identifies a specific phenotype of adult-onset autoimmune diabetes.

Resistance training may not only help to build muscle in older people, it may also be warding off type 2 diabetes, a new study demonstrates.

Fully half of U.S. patients hospitalized for coronary artery disease now have an LDL cholesterol level of 100 mg/dL or less on admission.

The safety of inhaled insulin is holding up at 2 years in an ongoing study, with adverse pulmonary effects being small, occurring early, and proving reversible on cessation of the drug

Switching to a low glycemic index (GI) diet from a high GI diet can result in improvements in insulin sensitivity, and may thereby lower the risk of type 2 diabetes in overweight or obese individuals with impaired glucose tolerance.

A nationwide survey of adults over the age of 40 has found that only 41% say they regularly take aspirin.

Long-term all-cause mortality rates among people diagnosed with celiac disease in childhood are threefold higher than population mortality rates.