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High blood pressure appears to impair older individuals’ ability to walk, and the reason may be more than just peripheral arterial disease.

Patients on metformin, regardless of race, were 62 percent less likely to adhere to their regimen.

Hospitalizations for potentially preventable diabetes-related complications and other conditions are more likely among blacks and Latinos than among non-Latino whites and Asians.

Four governors, looking to ease drug costs under state programs, petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week to provide guidelines for generic versions of insulin and human growth hormone.

It may seem axiomatic, but a pedometer-based study has provided empirical confirmation that adults who watch more television are less physically active.

Sheri Colberg, Ph.D., FACSM shares more of her new best seller, The 7 Step Diabetes Fitness Plan. This week read: But What If You Already Have Diabetes? You will want to print this one out and give it to your patients.

The onset of type 2 diabetes before age 20 was associated with an increased risk of early kidney failure and death between ages 25 to 55, according to researchers.

A large number of adults with both high blood pressure and high cholesterol are not receiving treatment, a study shows.

A slowing of blood flow in the middle cerebral arteries, may signal the onset of microvascular disease in elderly patients with type 2 diabetes, a potential mechanism of cerebrovascular disease in these patients.

Intensive lipid lowering with high-dose statin therapy provides a significant benefit over standard-dose therapy for preventing predominantly non-fatal cardiovascular events.