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Edited by Frank J. Snoek and T. Chas Skinner Diabetes in Older Adults   Microvascular complications The specific microvascular complications of diabetes may be less prominent in type 2 diabetes than in type 1 but they still provide cause for concern.

In this week’s Homerun Slides, Part 8 of Dr. Stanley Schwartz’s series on An Aggressive Pathophysiologic Approach to Cardiometabolic Therapy for Type 2 Diabetes, we continue with our discussion last week of the benefits of Ranolazine for diabetes patients….

For Dr. Kahn’s comments and the Joslin Diabetes Center’s response, see our article in last week’s newsletter: Joslin Replies to Dr. Richard Kahn’s Statement: “Diabetes Prevention is a Waste of Resources.”

Autoantigen treatment of new-onset type 1 diabetes was unsuccessful in preserving pancreatic beta-cell function overall, but the treatment did appear to help in certain prespecified patient subgroups.…

Consumption of a Mediterranean-style diet is associated with a reduced burden of white matter hyperintesity volume, a marker of small vessel damage in the brain.…

A specific goal to eat a set number of daily servings of low-glycemic-index foods can improve dietary habits of people with type 2 diabetes….

A protein kinase known as ROCK1 can exacerbate an important process called fission in the mitochondria, the power plants of cells, leading to diabetic kidney disease.…

Maintaining or improving current fitness levels, as well as not packing on the fat pounds, are both independently associated with a lower risk of developing hypertension, metabolic syndrome, and hypercholesterolemia in healthy adults.…

Fat people have less than thin people. Older people have less than younger people. Men have less than younger women.…

Only one in three people in the US say their doctor advised them to start exercising or continue doing so during an office visit over the course of a year.…