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Elderly nursing home patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus have higher bone mass and lower bone turnover than those without diabetes.

Patients with Type 2 diabetes and periodontal disease who receive periodontal therapy see levels of oxidative stress, a condition in which antioxidant levels are lower than normal, reduced to the same levels as nondiabetic patients.

If French scientists are to be believed being obese is linked to a decline in a person’s cognitive function.

Nearly one out of two women with gestational diabetes also have periodontal disease.

Many people with diabetes also have psoriasis, which increases their risk even more then the 3 times greater risk for heart attacks then those without diabetes.

European Society of Cardiology(ESC) and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes EASD) issue aggressive guidelines for coronary heart disease and diabetes.

A portable, automated device accurately detects electrophysiological abnormalities in the sural nerve, indicating diabetic sensorimotor polyneuropathy,

Neuropathies occur in much earlier stages of abnormal glucose metabolism than previously thought.

Having a stroke is bad enough. But having another one after surviving the first one is especially bad, more than doubling a person’s risk of dying in the next two years, a new study finds.

Elderly diabetics with poor glucose control have a high prevalence of undiagnosed cognitive dysfunction, depression and functional disabilities.