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Using metformin alone can improve control of blood glucose, while also reducing risk factors for heart disease such as excess body weight, cholesterol levels and hypertension.

The findings support the central role of insulin resistance in the development of endothelial dysfunction and the role of metformin for the treatment of patients with metabolic syndrome.

Improves bloods sugars, cholesterol and has the potential to prevent pre-diabetic patients developing Type 2 diabetes along with cardiovascular and metabolic complications of the disease.

Masaru Taniguchi and colleagues in Japan report that transplanted insulin-producing cells survive better when the activation of a specific type of immune cell is blocked.

About 50% of those with Pre Diabetes prevented from becoming diabetic.

Patients on Lipitor experienced 50% fewer strokes thean those on placebo.

Drowsiness is more common in people younger than 30 and in those older than 75.

Patients who reported the highest levels of carbohydrate cravings demonstrated significantly greater reductions than the placebo group.

A five-year study has found that cigarette smokers were almost twice as likely as nonsmokers to develop the most common form of diabetes.

In diabetic patients, recovery from Bell’s palsy was delayed and the facial movement score remained low in comparison with nondiabetic patients.