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70% of the study participants showed an improvement in insulin-related function, and in 50% it was a clinically significant change.

I am proud to have survived having diabetes for 52 years and 4 months. For most of those years about the only change in care that I noticed was that needles got smaller and sharper.

Insulin itself may contribute to obesity. A high first-phase insulin response to intravenous glucose has been shown to be a risk factor for long-term weight gain, and this effect is particularly manifested in insulin-sensitive individuals. 76 Also, compared to normal children, Pima Indian children with elevated fasting insulin gain more …

There is the possibility of developing vaccines to prevent infection UK scientists have found strong evidence suggesting that diabetes is caused by a virus. The finding raises the possibility of developing a vaccine for the disease.

Experts say the statins’ do much more than lower your cholesterol. Taking statins cuts your odds of a heart attack by 40 percent, your odds of diabetes by 30 percent. It also reduces your risk of cancer, brittle bones and apparently it even helps stop HIV.

It’s better at raising HDL-C than any of the previous statins.

Hyperglycemia may make people more susceptible to strokes and appear to worsen the outcomes of stroke patients after thrombolytic therapy.

Each hour, 178 people die from complications set off by diabetes. For 80 percent of these patients the killer is atherosclerosis involving the large blood vessels supplying heart and brain. Patients with diabetes are four times as likely as nondiabetic individuals to die of an MI. With endothelial dysfunction a …

“These are truly amazing results,” says study author Claude Gagné, MD.

Diabetics are not in the same league as heart disease patients for the risk of heart attack