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Impaired endothelial function associated with low HDL cholesterol may be an additional, unrecognized mechanism contributing to the increased risk of atherosclerosis.

Lipid Goals. New research suggests that regular visits to clinics staffed by specialist nurses can help diabetics achieve blood pressures and cholesterol levels that are in accordance with current guidelines.

Clinicians should be aware of the possibility of increased blood glucose-lowering efficacy of nateglinide if fluconazole and nateglinide are combined.

The Introductiuon of Crestor will trigger another round of marketing wars and questions about which statin is best. Watch for a lot of claims. Find out the facts, which statin are best.

The number of preventable injury-related deaths remains disproportionately high for youth on reservations, due to diabetes reaching near epidemic levels among Native American adults, reported by the federal government last Thursday.

Exendin-4 is a promising therapeutic for patients with type 2 diabetes

Choosing low-GI foods in place of conventional or high-GI foods has a small but clinically useful effect on medium-term glycemic control in patients with diabetes.

Researchers successful in reversing type 1 diabetes by “teaching” the newly emerging immune cells not to attack the insulin-secreting islet cells.

New survey links food portions to the growing epidemic of obesity in this county and abroad.

The largest and most comprehensive examination of health care quality in the US finds people with diabetes received only 45 percent of the care they need.