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Dr. Sheri Colberg, author of The 7 Step Diabetes Fitness Plan: Living Well and Being Fit with Diabetes, has more help for your patients who need exercise. Exercising with Complications: Neuropathy. This is a good one to print out add to your handouts.

Patients with diabetes appear to be at a 3- to 4-fold increased risk of intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) compared with patients without diabetes.

People consuming diets with a higher glycemic index than average were at greater risk of developing advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The researchers suggest that 20 percent of cases of advanced AMD might have been prevented if individuals had consumed a diet with a glycemic index below average.

Painful neuropathy is more common in patients with type 2 diabetes than in those with type 1, due to metabolic syndrome, researchers suggest, because of a link with the metabolic syndrome.

A major epidemiological study conducted over eight years in Australia has shown that two classes of lipid-lowering drugs – statins and fibrates – significantly lower the risk of developing nerve damage known as peripheral sensory diabetic neuropathy.

Saliva may be a marker for both periodontal disease activity and hyperglycemia in uncontrolled type 2 diabetes, according to new research.

A history of migraine and other headache types has been linked to an increased prevalence of retinopathy in middle-aged individuals, supporting the hypothesis that neurovascular dysfunction underlies vascular headaches.

New research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham shows that the effect of diabetes on the severity of illness and risk of death for patients with heart failure is much worse in women than men. The effect is even more pronounced in older patients.

A new study examining the overall and gender-related effects of laparoscopic gastric banding surgery (LGBS) on insulin resistance, body composition, and metabolic risk markers six months post-surgery has found significant improvements in insulin resistance. The improvements occurred despite continuing obesity.

Resistance training may not only help to build muscle in older people, it may also be warding off type 2 diabetes, a new study demonstrates.