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Men and women with fasting plasma glucose levels in the high-normal range of 87 to 99 mg/dL should be counseled with regard to weight and lifestyle, and assessing their lipid profiles. Young men with fasting plasma glucose levels in the high-normal range appear to be at increased risk for type …

A new study has found that having a pet can encourage owners to get more exercise and results in more weight loss than most nationally known diet plans.

Many have gone years without any insulin injections or immunosuppressant drugs.

Study indicates that giving 1,000 patients pioglitazone (Actos) would avoid 21 first heart attacks, strokes or deaths over 3 years.

Impaired insulin sensitivity independently predicts mortality in patients with otherwise stable chronic heart failure (CHF).

“The findings of this study suggest that patients with newly diagnosed neuropathy should be screened for diabetes, and in addition, the study emphasizes the importance of early glucose control to prevent diabetic neuropathy.”

This study is the first to show that rosiglitazone has beneficial effects on the heart in type 2 diabetic patients with confirmed ischemic coronary artery disease .

A new way of manipulating human pancreatic beta cells appears to mitigate the shortage of donor cells for transplantation to treat type 1 diabetes and the difficulty of expanding differentiated cells in vitro.

Patients may have a greater capacity to repair their hearts and blood vessels compared to those on conventional dialysis three times a week.

Mothers’ psychological stress, measured as exposure to negative life events, seems to be involved in the onset or progression of diabetes-related beta-cell destruction in young children.