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For patients with Type 1 diabetes who need a kidney transplant, simultaneous pancreas-kidney (SPK) transplantation offers a higher survival rate than other options but with some increased risks, reports a study.

A group of endocrinologists in Sydney have observed that very sick patients tend to have very low levels of Vitamin D. The sickerthey are, the lower the levels.

Scientists believe they may have found a preventative therapy for Type 1 diabetes, by making the body’s killer immune cells tolerate the insulin-producing cells they would normally attack and destroy, prior to disease onset.

A skin patch could one day provide a less-invasive alternative for diabetics who need to take regular samples of their own blood to keep glucose levels in check. When added to an insulin pump, it could become an external artificial pancreas.

Two-thirds of the difference between death rates among African Americans and Caucasians are now due to causes that could be prevented or cured, according to a new study.

There are important variations in the reported costs of diabetes non-adherence which are due to methodological differences among studies. Therefore, decision makers need to identify those sources of variation, and base their decision only on high quality studies.

Incidence of Type 2 diabetes might be associated with preexisting hypertension.

Australian doctors believe they have found the key to eradicating Type 1 diabetes, the kind that obliges sufferers to regulate their blood glucose levels every day of their lives.

Heart rate changes in anticipation of exercise may predict sudden death cardiac risk, researchers said. A pulse that quickened during the mild mental stress just before an exercise stress test doubled the risk of sudden death later in life.

The antiepileptic drug lacosamide is effective in reducing painful diabetic neuropathy without serious side effects, according to results from two phase 3 trials, one in the United States and one in the European Union, researchers reported at the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) 61st Annual Meeting.