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Antidiabetic drugs, insulin, sulfonylurea and metformin are associated with a decreased risk of prostate cancer, investigators report.

End stage renal disease is increasing as more people cannot get to blood glucose goals. With less transplant kidneys available, we will see more use of home dialysis being used.

They’re more than twice as likely to die sooner, study finds. Having diabetes or high blood pressure may hasten the death of people with Alzheimer’s disease, new research suggests.

Gastric bypass (GBP) surgery is an effective way for most patients to lose weight, but poor results are associated with diabetes and larger gastric pouch size, according to the results of a prospective cohort study.

Vision loss is nearly twice as common among U.S. adults with diabetes as those without diabetes and people with diabetes also have increased rates of glaucoma and cataracts, both of which can lead to vision loss.

Impaired insulin response in midlife is associated with an increased risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease (AD) up to 35 years later, Swedish researchers report.

Both excess body weight and a high plasma concentration of C-peptide predispose men with a subsequent diagnosis of prostate cancer to an increased likelihood of dying of the disease, according to the results of a long-term survival analysis.

In a postmortem study of patients who had Alzheimer’s disease, those who also had diabetes and were treated with insulin and oral hypoglycemic drugs had lower densities of neural plaques in the brain, a hallmark of this dementia, than did other diabetics or those without diabetes, new research shows.

Multisystemic therapy, an intensive home-based family therapy initiative, reduces hospital admissions for diabetic ketoacidosis in adolescents with poorly controlled type 1 diabetes, results of a new study recently published. 

Dialysis patients diagnosed with depression are nearly twice as likely to be hospitalized or die within a year than those who are not depressed, a UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher has found.