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More Treatment Options for Diabetes Means Few Excuses for High Blood Sugar
A generation ago, there was just one kind of pill that could help people with diabetes keep their…
Any exercise can improve diabetes control
Combining resistance training, such as weight lifting, with aerobic workouts appears to be the most beneficial for type…
Coffee reduces risk of type 2 diabetes
Coffee drinkers have a substantially lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes than people who abstain from the…
ACE Inhibitors Reduce Kidney Disease Risk in Diabetics with High Blood Pressure
In diabetic patients with hypertension, ACE inhibitors reduce the risk of developing diabetes-related kidney disease, independent of…
Obesity pill may treat diabetes
A new obesity pill that helps control blood sugar levels in patients with type 2 diabetes could provide…
Diabetes gene carries similar risk to obesity
Carrying two copies of a common variant of a particular gene doubles your chances of developing diabetes and…
Vitamin B12 deficiency seen in many metformin users
Although treatment with the anti-diabetes drug metformin has greatly improved the prognosis of adults with type 2 diabetes,…
New diabetes drug Januvia works without causing weight gain
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the U.S. has granted approval for a new drug to treat…
Benefits of pioglitazone for type 2 diabetes unclear
The risk-benefit ratio for pioglitazone in the treatment of type 2 diabetes is unclear, according to a review…
U.S. FDA OKs new Merck drug for diabetes
A new type of diabetes drug that helps the body control blood sugar won U.S. Food and Drug…
Aggressive diabetes treatment stressful for some
When screening identifies people with type 2 diabetes, they usually experience little anxiety in the first years after…
Many diabetics risk health by not taking meds
About 21 percent of individuals with diabetes do not regularly take their blood-sugar lowering, blood-pressure lowering or cholesterol-lowering…
One in 523 Children and Adolescents Have Diabetes
About one in every 523 children and adolescents in the United States had physician-diagnosed diabetes in 2001, according…
Study finds 1 in 5 youths with diabetes has 2 or more risk factors for early heart disease
With the epidemic of obesity in the United States leading to a greater incidence of diabetes among youth,…
Alcohol uses may increase type 2 diabetes and glucose intolerance risk
Alcohol uses may increase type 2 diabetes and glucose intolerance risk, but smoking does not.
In…
Antipsychotic medication olanzapine is associated with type 2 diabetes onset
The antipsychotic medication olanzapine is associated with type-2 diabetes onset in patients.
According to a study…
Dairy products may reduce type 2 diabetes or cardiovascular disease risk
Dairy products may reduce type 2 diabetes or cardiovascular disease risk.
According to a recent review…
Diabetes and hyperlipidemia raise complication risk during invasive carotid artery therapy
Diabetes and hyperlipidemia increase diffusionweighted imaging lesion risk during invasive therapy of the carotid artery.
According…
Leptin could combat type 2 diabetes
University of Florida researchers have discovered the appetite-controlling hormone leptin could also combat type 2 diabetes, a disease…
Study Adds to Links Between Sleep Loss and Diabetes
Short or poor quality sleep is associated with reduced control of blood-sugar levels in African Americans with diabetes,…
