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When should primary care providers consider prescribing pramlintide (Symlin, Amylin) to their patients with diabetes?

Adiponectin levels correlate with insulin sensitivity in children and adolescents and are lower among African Americans.

Two types of blood pressure-lowering medicines — so called ACE inhibitors or closely related angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) — can lower the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

Personal digital assistants (PDAs) could change the way healthcare is delivered in the future by providing doctors with easy access to patient data and the latest information on treatment.

HbA1c was significantly lower 2 years after diagnosis in patients treated with nicotinamide plus intensive insulin therapy.

Findings from a new animal study suggest how hyperglycemia can directly contribute to atherogenesis in humans.

PET proved more accurate than screening for genetic predisposition to Alzheimer’s.

The babies of women with diabetes are two to five times more likely to develop birth defects than offspring of women without diabetes. Study suggests that high blood glucose levels early in pregnancy deprive the embryo of oxygen, interfering with its development.

For people with diabetes undergoing angioplasty to clear clogged coronary arteries, stents that release a drug, sirolimus, to prevent re-clogging are better than bare-metal stents by 27% in preventing major cardiac adverse events as– cardiac death,

New research shows that diabetes can substantially raise the risk of falls among elderly adults living in nursing homes by as much as four times.