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Exenatide reduces blood glucose, reduces weight and may restore beta cell function.

Breathalyzer Detects Diabetes Scientists at the Mississippi State University have invented a high-tech sensory device that can detect the early symptoms of diabetes in a person’s breath.

Results of a study in healthy men suggest a causative role for hypoxia in acutely increasing glucose intolerance. Elevated release of epinephrine is one factor mediating this effect.

58.6% of the asymptomatic diabetics had abnormal scans for coronary artery disease.

Half of people with diabetes have uncontrolled hypertension.

Liposuction may let doctors extract body fat, but it doesn’t trim the risk of heart disease or diabetes the same way losing weight with diet and physical activity does, researchers are reporting.

Researchers have identified two common single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that seem to attenuate the cholesterol-lowering effects of statins.

Findings demonstrate the central importance of AKT signaling to insulin sensitivity in humans.

Almost everyone with diabetes should consider taking a statin drug to lower cholesterol, even if they already have low cholesterol levels, the American Diabetes Association advised on Thursday.

Procter & Gamble Co. will be the first company with a drug on the market to treat sexual dysfunction in women.