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Combination therapy with simvastatin and fenofibrate may offer advantages over the use of either agent alone in diabetic patients with mixed dyslipidemia.

In several albeit small and preliminary studies now in patients with diabetic nephropathy, glomerular architecture has been shown to be remodeled and kidney disease regressed in response to various strategies.

Good control of blood sugar in diabetic patients with chronic kidney disease who undergo regular hemodialysis is an independent predictor of a better prognosis, a team of Japanese researchers report.

People who ate a low-fat vegan diet, cutting out all meat and dairy, lowered their blood sugar more and lost more weight than people on a standard American Diabetes Association diet.

People with type 2 diabetes respond markedly to exercise, and adding acarbose to an exercise regimen significantly improves blood glucose control, exercise alone improve insullin sensitivity by 92 percent..

Study showed that overweight teenage boys who lifted weights twice per week for 16 weeks significantly reduced their insulin resistance.

Adults in the United States have increasingly become overweight or obese in recent years, according to a national survey conducted for Indiana University dispelling the notion of a plateau and injecting a note of urgency into efforts to help Americans achieve a healthier weight.

Chili attenuates the hyperinsulin response after a meal, according to the results of a randomized study.

The Fremantle Diabetes Study Showed that monitoring less then once a day did not improve glycemic control.

Females who are obese during adolescence are much more likely to die before they become elderly than slim counterparts, researchers report.