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Cost of medical care for a person with diabetes: $10,071 per year, compared with $2,669 for a person without diabetes.

We are what we eat, or so the saying goes, but new research suggests that we may be what our parents and grandparents ate as well.

Vascular surgery should not be withheld from patients with diabetes. Even though during 5 years of follow-up, patients with diabetes had about a 50% mortality rate, compared with about a 25% rate among the other patients in the series.

In the past several months I’ve written a few pieces about immunomodulation of type 1 diabetes, or attempts to suppress the immune attack on insulin-producing beta cells. These studies have involved compounds that rein in the immune system in a more or less specific way, and all have been tested …

More aggressive treatment for the newly diagnosed provide better outcomes in the future

Metformin reduces hepatic glucose and improves insulin sensitivity in type 1 diabetes.

That’s more than 60 million Americans that could become diabetic

Premenopausal women with high fasting glucose levels were almost three times as likely to develop breast cancer as premenopausal women whose fasting glucose levels were low.

Treating diabetic patients with the cholesterol-lowering drug niacin does not result in increased heart attacks or mortality, despite historical evidence that niacin raises blood sugars.

As an adjunct to manipulating macronutrient ratios, potential benefits have been associated with the following non-pharmaceutical interventions as part of an overall, sound dietary approach to improve diabetes and endothelial dysfunction. These include but are not limited to: anti-oxidants200 such as vitamins E 97, 305-308 , and C, 112, 309-311 …