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People with type 2 diabetes who have progressed to kidney failure don’t gain much benefit from treatment with a statin drug like Lipitor.

Percentage of low-income Asian and Pacific Islander children in California who are overweight more than doubled between 1994 and 2003, from 7 percent to 15 percent.

A gene involved in the action of insulin is associated with type 2 diabetes and the body’s response to insulin has been found and reported on.

Rosiglitazone improves pancreatic β-cell response after six months as reflected by measures of insulin sensitivity and first-phase insulin response.

Americans are getting a little taller and a lot fatter.

In the 8 studies, SMBG was most effective when done 8 times a week. Interestingly, the increased benefit associated with SMBG was much less when monitoring was conducted 6 days a week.

Obesity nearly doubles the risk that an otherwise healthy middle-aged man will eventually have a stroke, a long-running Swedish study finds. Insulin resistance the culprit.

There was a 37% relative risk reduction in the primary end point of major cardiovascular events

For elderly women, the location of body fat is more important than total fat amount in predicting future heart attacks, not so for men aged 70-79.

Study shows that atherosclerosis, begins early and that it relates to abnormalities of lipids and to diabetes complications.