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Over a 6-year period, 56.1% of African Americans with type 1 diabetes and retinopathy showed progression of their eye disease.

This places diabetes among the more common chronic illnesses of youth, the researchers report, striking 1.82 children per 1,000, compared with 1.24 per 1,000 with cancer and 120 per 1,000 with asthma.

Approximately one-third of boys and girls age 12 to 19 in the United States do not meet standards for physical fitness. Low physical fitness during adolescence tends to track into adulthood, so it becomes obvious why we are seeing more kids with type 2 diabetes

A new analysis of the ASCOT study shows the clearest proof so far that antihypertensive treatment with an ACE inhibitor and calcium channel blocker limits new-onset diabetes, while treatment with a ß-blocker (atenolol), and thiazide diuretic (bendroflumethiazide) helps cause it,

About 21 percent of individuals with diabetes do not regularly take their blood-sugar lowering, blood-pressure lowering or cholesterol-lowering pills, researchers found in study of 11,532 diabetes patients.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is questioning whether or not Patients with Type 2 Diabetes benefit from self-monitoring of their blood glucose and should they pay for monitor and strips.

Underuse of ACEI and ARB therapy in elderly patients because of the perceived lack of efficacy or a greater risk of adverse events appears unjustified.

Moderate weight loss improves arterial stiffness in type 2 diabetes.

Suspending basal insulin during exercise in children with type 1 diabetes can effectively control hypoglycemia.

The new diabetes drug from Novartis, Galvus cuts blood sugar levels as much as GlaxoSmithKlines established medicine Avandia and without the side effects.