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Women with diabetes were at 40% to 50% greater risk for developing and dying from coronary heart disease than diabetic men, and sex disparities in pharmacotherapy didn’t appear to explain the excess risk…. 

Weight loss at any age in adulthood is worthwhile because it could yield long-term heart and vascular benefits…. 

More aggressive treatment of depression needed in older patients with diabetes…. 

New published research describes how aspirin acts on key skin cells called keratinocytes, delaying skin repair at wound sites….

The cardiovascular morbidity and mortality associated with diabetes are well established, so much so that type 2 diabetes has been described as a cardiovascular disease presenting as a metabolic disorder. Patients with type 2 diabetes are particularly at risk for atherosclerosis; so medications with ancillary vascular benefits are particularly useful, …

Among women who had gestational diabetes, those who upped their exercise by a little more than 20 minutes a day after giving birth had half the longer-term diabetes risk of women who didn’t change their activity levels….

Exposure to diabetes in utero may significantly impair beta-cell function in children…. 

In a phase 2 trial, patients with diabetic gastroparesis displayed increased gastric emptying and improvement in vomiting after treatment with relamorelin-131…. 

Offloading pressure on the plantar foot surface could help reduce the formation of ulcers…. 

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