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Are patients with a higher baseline A1C more likely to have a better glycemic response to GLP-1 treatments?… The retrospective observational cohort study was done to determine predictors of glycemic response to exenatide and to assess change in glycosylated hemoglobin (A1C) and whether a correlation exists between weight loss and …

When overweight or obese people lose weight, using a low carb diet, they can have a significant reduction in inflammation throughout their body, as measured by three common markers….

More than one-quarter of all adults over age 65 have diabetes but there is little research on how to treat the disease in older adults….

A study with 15,000 middle-aged male physicians using multivitamins for more than 10 years showed no benefit in reducing cardiovascular events….

In an examination of the incidence of coronary heart disease in the U.S. by race and sex, black men and women had twice the rate of fatal CHD compared with white men and women….

Adding the direct renin inhibitor aliskiren to either an angiotensin-receptor blocker (ARB) or an angiotensin-converting-enzyme (ACE) inhibitor didn’t reduce heart or kidney events in type 2 diabetes patients at risk for such complications….

Researchers at Sweden’s Lund University have identified a "promising candidate" for a test that will indicate an early risk for type 2 diabetes, up to 10 years before diagnosing….

Even in men and women with an optimal cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factor profile, the lifetime risk estimate for CVD is greater than 30%, and is more than 50% for men and women overall….

Pulse wave velocity which can be a parameter in the evaluation of cerebrovascular disease risk correlated with white matter lesion volume even after adjustment for confounding variables….

Amy P. Campbell, MS, RD, CDE, and Richard S. Beaser, M.D.       Carbohydrate counting, a method of keeping track of the grams of carbohydrate one eats at meals and snacks, is a form of meal planning that has become increasingly popular.