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The only way of reducing microvascular disease currently is by maintaining tight glycemic control, flexible insulin management is one way to achieve it.

Most patients who present at emergency cardiac care units with a heart attack have abnormal glucose metabolism, and most of those patients are diabetic — the majority undiagnosed.

Increased nocturnal blood pressure may be a harbinger of microalbuminuria in patients with type 1 diabetes.

There are not nearly enough donors to go around. Seven hundred thousand people in the United States have type 1 diabetes (islet cell transplantation can’t treat most cases of type 2 diabetes.

The risk of cardiovascular disease in patients with type II diabetes may be some 30% higher than that indicated by the Framingham model, according to preliminary new research.

Pupil tests may be one way of diagnosing [autonomic dysfunction] as early a possible.

Insulin resistance is most predictive of diabetic nephropathy in the long-term, according to the results of a 10-year prospective study

Beta cell function can be preserved in patients with type 1 diabetes for at least two years after diagnosis by adding nicotinamide (NA) therapy to intensive insulin therapy (IIT).

Administering antioxidant vitamins during treatment of diabetic ketoacidosis may minimize oxidative stress and associated complications.

Monitoring nighttime blood pressure identifies patients with type 1 diabetes who are at increased risk for kidney disease.