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Awareness and better control of postprandial glucose can help to prevent declining cognitive function.

Flavonol-Rich cocoa improves blood vessel function.

Two of the nation’s leaders in improving health care for Americans are collaborating to recognize hospital inpatient diabetes programs that meet national quality standards and raise the quality of care provided to patients with diabetes.

Inhaled human insulin (Exubera) is as effective as glibenclamide as adjunctive therapy in patients with type 2 diabetes.

Night eating is common in diabetic patients and is associated with increased complications.

High blood pressure appears to impair older individuals’ ability to walk, and the reason may be more than just peripheral arterial disease.

Patients on metformin, regardless of race, were 62 percent less likely to adhere to their regimen.

Hospitalizations for potentially preventable diabetes-related complications and other conditions are more likely among blacks and Latinos than among non-Latino whites and Asians.

Four governors, looking to ease drug costs under state programs, petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week to provide guidelines for generic versions of insulin and human growth hormone.

It may seem axiomatic, but a pedometer-based study has provided empirical confirmation that adults who watch more television are less physically active.