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20% of patients showed a 1% or greater improvement in HbA1c levels.

Doctors and educators need to discuss and create a plan for their patients.

Chromium supplementation can lead to a shortening of a harmful heart rhythm, which may lower cardiovascular risk in type 2 diabetics.

Almost one in eight diabetics hospitalized for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) do not survive for 6 months, according to the results of a new study.

Insulin hypersecretion and insulin resistance may be distinct phenomena among obese, non-diabetic children.

Cardiac disease has decreased in men during the last two decades but not in women.

Insulin resistance is common among men with treated hypertension, but conventional risk factors do not reliably diagnosis the condition.

The results of a study of healthy volunteers indicate that inhaled insulin has a faster onset of action than does subcutaneously injected insulin lispro or regular human insulin.

People with type 2 diabetes can significantly improve their health and reduce medical costs by walking at least three miles each day.

Definite progression (an annual increase of at least 24%) was more common among untreated patients (41%) than among statin-treated patients (26%).