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Intensive dietary intervention and dietary intervention combined with an increase in moderate activity were both  superior to usual care in a real-world comparison of diabetic patients in the first 6 months after being diagnosed.…

Insulin pumps that automatically shut down when blood glucose hits a certain low level decrease the amount of time pediatric patients spend in hypoglycemia….

Training people with diabetes to teach other patients improves utilization of medications and results in lifestyle changes….

Type 2 diabetes patients with microvascular or macrovascular complications, or those taking certain monotherapies, are more likely to experience hypoglycemia and require outpatient hospital visits….

The perception that diet soft drinks are a benign alternative to highly sweetened beverages might be dangerously wrong….

In patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes through screening in general practice, intensive multifactorial treatment improved cardiovascular risk factors, compared with usual care, new findings suggest, but those improvements were very small.…

Higher levels of vitamin D in the blood appear to be associated with a reduced risk for incident diabetes among people at high risk for the disease.…

Takeda Pharmaceuticals recently completed a Phase 2 study with its novel anti-diabetic agent TAK-875, which could help lead to more individualized patient care and diabetes management….

The vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) inhibitor ranibizumab (Lucentis) proves promising in treating diabetic macular edema….

NC-stat — DPNCheck Fast, accurate and quantitative test that may be used to evaluate peripheral neuropathies such as DPN. It may aid in the early detection, confirmation, and monitoring of DPN. It measures sural nerve conduction velocity – a standard biomarker for subclinical and symptomatic DPN. It is sensitive and specific for …