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Metformin treatment leads to an increase in homocysteine levels in patients with type 2 diabetes who take insulin. Adding B6, folic acid and B12 to treatment regimen, might lower homocysteine levels and reduce the risk of CVD. This comes from a recent report from Bethesda General Hospital, Hoogeveen, Netherlands.

FINDING A LUMP in your breast can be terrifying and your first thought may be that it is Cancer! Did you know that diabetes could be the cause?

Experts are urging more people to take it on. walk everyday for 30 minutes.” That’s right. In addition to eating low-fat meals, you need to pound the pavement.

Launching a cholesterol-reducing orange juice this week.

It’s the energy density of foods — not the amount we eat or even the overall fat content — that most contributes to weight gain.

A daily vitamin E supplement can harm patients by raising their risk of heart failure, and their risk of acute heart failure exacerbations that require hospitalization. Effect appears specific to CHF

Family physicians frequently fail to adequately screen women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM).The results come from a small descriptive study.

Diabetes control is in the hands of the patient, not in the hands of the health-care provider, family physicians were told at the Annual Scientific Assembly of the American Academy of Family Physicians.

A landmark clinical trial in secondary cardiovascular prevention has shown that all patients with stable coronary heart disease, regardless of risk level, ought to receive an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor.

The results of a study suggest an association between left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) and susceptibility to atherothrombosis and increased albuminuria in adults with type 2 diabetes.