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Overeating makes the brain go haywire, prompting a cascade of damage that may cause diabetes, heart disease and other ills, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday.

In obese patients with type 2 diabetes, increased triglyceride stores in the heart can be mobilized by therapeutic prolonged caloric restriction.

Following a healthy diet or taking metformin may help to delay or prevent diabetes in women with a history of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and impaired glucose tolerance, according to the results of a randomized controlled clinical trial.

2-year study looked at more than 10,000 Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes.

A new Italian study has shown, for the first time, that consuming moderate amounts of dark chocolate can significantly reduce levels of C-reactive protein (CRP).

The prevalence of diabetes is similar between patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) and those without PD, according to a new in the September issue of Diabetes Care.

Study demonstrated that one third of males with type 2 diabetes had subnormal free testosterone concentrations and that most of these patients had TT and FT concentrations in the low normal or subnormal range.

In the UKPDS in the metformin group, significant risk reductions persisted for any diabetes-related end point (21%), myocardial infarction (33%), and death from any cause (27%).

In a postmortem study of patients who had Alzheimer’s disease, those who also had diabetes and were treated with insulin and oral hypoglycemic drugs had lower densities of neural plaques in the brain, a hallmark of this dementia, than did other diabetics or those without diabetes, new research shows.

This is according to an American study. Its authors recommend screening for diabetes, arterial hypertension and cardiovascular disease in patients with COPD.