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Ordinary tap or bottled water could help people suffering from low blood pressure who faint while standing.

Aggressive treatment to lower high cholesterol in patients with type 1 diabetes, could protect their vision as well as their cardiovascular health.

Middle-aged people with diabetes are nearly three times more likely to develop dementia in old age than people without diabetes.

Lifelong Obesity Linked to Brain Atrophy and Dementia Carrying too many extra pounds during your life may take its toll on your brain as well as your body, according to a new study.

“Diabetic patients with end stage renal disease will usually die within 4 years, so probably it’s too late in the vascular life of the patient to [start] statin treatment.”

Most patients with Type 2 diabetes are not receiving care as per the ADA guidelines released in 2004 for diabetic nephropathy.

People with type 2 diabetes who have progressed to kidney failure don’t gain much benefit from treatment with a statin drug like Lipitor.

Obesity nearly doubles the risk that an otherwise healthy middle-aged man will eventually have a stroke, a long-running Swedish study finds. Insulin resistance the culprit.

The hazard ratios for dementia and vascular dementia were even higher in patients taking oral antidiabetic agents.

Treatment with sildenafil (Viagra) or tadalafil (Cialis) results in increased levels of testosterone in men with erectile dysfunction (ED). However, increases are more marked with tadalafil.