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In part 1 of this Exclusive Interview, Dr. Robert Rapaport talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the AACE 2017 convention in Austin, Texas about the necessity of a proper, eventual transition of pediatric patients to adult care.

Researchers use data from large ongoing cohort study to look for connection. In a recent study, researchers concluded that sugar and artificially sweetened beverage intake have been linked to cardiometabolic risk factors, which increase the risk of cerebrovascular disease and dementia. The study examined whether sugar or artificially sweetened beverage …

The answer comes from a mediation analysis of the EMPA-REG OUTCOME Trial.

Higher score measuring severity of pain indicated elevated treatment failure risk.

Young patients with low BMIs, C-peptide levels, and significant symptoms at onset of diabetes at higher risk of undergoing rapid C-peptide decline.

With much of the U.S. in the grip of harsh winter weather as December 2017 comes to a close, we're revisiting a post we originally published in 2013 about how having diabetes or prediabetes can increase the risk of frostbite. The risk was dramatically illustrated by the experience of British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, who had to pull out of a grueling expedition to cross Antarctica due to the effects of frostbite. We wish all our readers a healthy, safe, and warm new year!

Medication also found to further aids in reducing daily insulin dose.

Identifying causes of death and related risk factors in patients with type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease may help with prevention.

Obesity, independent of diabetes diagnosis, found to increase diabetes risk.

Patients with type 2 diabetes usually do not die from diabetes, but from cardiovascular disease and strokes.