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The leveling off of rates may indicate that public health campaigns are actually starting to work… A third of children in England are overweight/obese, finds a 20-year King’s College London study of electronic health records. But the rapid rise in prevalence may be starting to level off — at least …

But smokers taking the drug may have slightly increased risk…. Diabetic nonsmokers who had taken metformin had a decreased risk of lung cancer compared with metformin non-users, researchers said. A retrospective analysis covering 47,351 diabetic patients 40 and older found that, while metformin use was not associated with lower lung …

Six weeks may be just enough…. Little is known about the optimal duration of antibiotic therapy for diabetic foot osteomyelitis (DFO). French researchers compared the effectiveness of 6 versus 12 weeks of antibiotic therapy in patients with DFO treated nonsurgically (i.e., antibiotics alone). This was a prospective randomized trial comparing …

Corneal confocal microscopy (CCM) can predict incipient peripheral neuropathy in patients with type 1 diabetes… The technique involves the examination of unmyelinated nerve fibers at high magnification using a laser-scanning corneal confocal microscope to image the subbasal nerve plexus of the patient’s cornea. Increased severity of diabetic peripheral neuropathy is …

For men, the increased risk of these complications occurred at higher BMI levels than in women… Researchers examined relations between elevated body mass index (BMI) and time to diagnosis with type 2 diabetes mellitus and its complications among older adults in the United States. Data came from the Medicare Current …

In this week’s Homerun Slides from Dr. Stanley Schwartz, we look into exactly what a more aggressive therapy towards treating diabetes might look like with a review of dual and triple therapy approaches as well as which medications can be used and when. We also examine the cardiovascular impact of these …

According to a new retrospective study acarbose may not have a cardioprotective effect as good as metformin when used as first-line therapy… This study analyzed 17,366 patients who initiated acarbose therapy and 230,023 who initiated metformin therapy. Both nephropathy and diabetes complication severity index were strongly associated with the patients …

For every 0.56 mmol/L increase in fasting blood glucose there was a 14% increase in the rate of pancreatic cancer… In previous studies, an assumption has been made that diabetes may be either a risk factor or a symptom of pancreatic cancer. To investigate this connection, researchers examined both linear …

The association was also found to be stronger in younger women than in older women… Data from a large ongoing study into the health of African-American women show that those who work night shifts are significantly more likely to develop diabetes than those who have never worked night shifts, with …

A longer duration of obesity also increased risk of colorectal cancer for diabetic patients… Dutch researchers have assessed the risk of colorectal cancer associated with type 2 diabetes, as compared with a nondiabetic reference population. They conducted an observational population-based cohort study within the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (1987–2012). All …