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The commonly used antidepressant drug paroxetine could become a therapy for the vascular complications of diabetes….

Researchers compared aerobic exercise to resistance training….

Too few overweight and obese pregnant women receive appropriate advice about healthy weight gain or appropriate exercise….

Boosting daily consumption of unsaturated fat and reducing the proportion of carbohydrates resulted in improved insulin sensitivity….

According to the findings of a population-based observational study, postmenopausal breast cancer survivors have a modest but meaningful increase in the incidence of diabetes….

Relatives of patients with schizophrenia are at higher risk of developing diabetes….

Fourteen percent of diabetic patients without ischemic heart disease were treated with high-dose statin therapy, a finding that suggests some of these patients may be potentially overtreated….

A Possible Key in Understanding the Metabolic Mysteries, Part 2 Osama Hamdy, MD, PhD, FACE The weeks excerpt answers the following questions: What is the liptoxicity theory? How best to measure visceral fat? Is all fat the same?  What is "metabolic obesity"? What are the 3 kinds of fat? Does …

In this week’s set of Homerun Slides, we explore the question of why patients are so reluctant to monitor, and then provide you with some tools to help convince them of the importance of monitoring….

Stavros Liatis, Nikolaos Katsilambros           Case 4.1 A 65-year-old man with history of Type 2 diabetes presented to the emergency department at 10.30 pm.