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Despite frequent abnormalities in glucose metabolism, elderly patients with low cholesterol absorption appear to have a survival advantage.

Neuropathies occur in much earlier stages of abnormal glucose metabolism than previously thought.

Diamyd Medical announces that its lead drug candidate, Diamyd(TM), has demonstrated overall statistically significant efficacy in preserving insulin production in a Phase II clinical trial in 70 children and adolescents with Type 1 diabetes.

It will be limited at first by the endo’s and then eventually by the family practitioner and internist. So how does it work?

Cardiovascular risk prediction models are available for the general population and for those with type 2 diabetes. However, researchers report that these models are poor predictors of cardiovascular risk in type 1 diabetics.

Factors other than postprandial hyperglycemia may be greater determinants of progression of diabetes.

In a randomized trial with 1079 participants, for over 3 years it was found that for every 2 pounds of weight loss there was a 16% reduction in risk.

Among women with a family history of type 2 diabetes, those with prior GDM were more likely to have CVD risk factors.

If you ever wondered just how a high-fiber diet helps keep you, well, “regular,” scientists may have the answer.

Having a stroke is bad enough. But having another one after surviving the first one is especially bad, more than doubling a person’s risk of dying in the next two years, a new study finds.