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The FDA is conducting a safety review of the angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB) olmesartan (Benicar, Daiichi Sankyo) after determining that diabetic patients taking the drug in two completed phase 3 trials may have had an excess risk of cardiovascular death, the regulatory body has announced [1]…. 

Epidemiologic relationships between A1c and all-Cause mortality during a median 3.4-year follow-up of glycemic treatment in the ACCORD Trial…. 

Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Eli Lilly and Company, and Alkermes, Inc., announced results from DURATION-4, the fourth in a series of studies designed to test the superiority of BYDUREON™ (exenatide extended-release for injectable suspension), an investigational Type 2 diabetes therapy, as compared to other Type 2 diabetes medications….

US experts who reviewed the emerging evidence on the links between cancer and diabetes have reported their findings in a consensus statement on the state of science linking both diseases and highlighted key questions that remain unanswered….  

Researchers at National Jewish Health and the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have identified the precise protein fragment, or peptide, that can trigger diabetes in mice…. 

Researchers have used a unique collection of pancreas specimens taken from patients who died soon after diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes to show that they respond to the ongoing process of destruction by inducing their islet cells to proliferate.… 

For the first time, researchers at Northwestern University have found that there also exists a circadian clock in the pancreas, which regulates the production of insulin, and that a fault in this clock could eventually cause diabetes….

Tell your young adult patients to walk to classes and stay off the shuttle bus. Researchers found that body fat percentages are not the only precursors to health problems later in life…. 

Patients at high to moderate risk of cardiovascular disease should be screened for elevated levels of lipoprotein(a) (Lp[a]) and take niacin to bring their Lp(a) level under 50 mg/dL, according to a consensus statement from the European Atherosclerosis Society (EAS)…. 

A diet high in antioxidants may help increase insulin sensitivity and enhance the effects of metformin, according to a small study….