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Read More »Tight Control in Advanced Diabetes Still Risky
Excess mortality seen with ultra-tight glucose control in high-risk patients with established Type 2 diabetes persisted despite termination of that arm of the study, researchers warned in mid-term reporting from the ACCORD study….
Read More »Potassium Levels Possible Key to Racial Disparity in Type 2 Diabetes
Lower potassium levels in the blood may help explain why African-Americans are twice as likely to be diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes as whites….
Read More »Diabetes Ups Risk of Death from All Causes
Diabetes not only doubles vascular death risk but also substantially raises risk of death from nonvascular causes, including cancer and infectious disease, researchers found….
Read More »New Study Shows Moderate Exercise Prevents Premature Aging
“Those who had endurance exercise training three times a week looked as young as healthy mice while their sedentary siblings were balding, graying, physically inactive, socially isolated, and less fertile….”
Read More »One in 20 Diabetes Diagnoses a ‘Serious Error’
UK physicians have been told to review all of their patients with diabetes to identify the one in 20 patients that research suggests may have been misdiagnosed or incorrectly classified with the disease….
Read More »A Healthy Waist Bigger for Black Women
The definition of a healthy waistline may have a bit more room for African-American women than for white women….
Read More »Safety of Insulin Glargine Use in Pregnancy
The study was done to compare the safety of using Glargine in place of NPH insulin….
Read More »Low Magnesium Levels May Be Associated with Proton Pump Inhibitor Drugs
Because magnesium is important in controlling diabetes, patients who use these PPIs should be aware of possible low magnesium levels….
Read More »Last Patient Completes the Phase III Study Of Diamyd(R) Antigen Based Therapy for Type 1 Diabetes
The last patient in the EU Diamyd Phase III clinical study has completed the 15-month visit, meaning that all patients in this study have completed the main 15 month study period in this trial….
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