Type 2 Diabetes

The team from the University of California, San Francisco, found that serotonin greatly increases the release of two pregnancy hormones, prolactin and placental lactogen.

For each study measure, there was a graded increase in the risk of diabetes with increasing quantiles of adiposity. Participants in the highest category of adiposity had an approximately 2- to 6-fold increased risk compared with those in the lowest category.

Research teams have come up with a possible explanation of why some commonly used drugs increase a patient's risk of breaking bones.

Barely half of dialysis patients who responded to a disaster-preparedness survey had enough bottled water or food to last three days in the event of a disaster.

New research from Oregon State University reveals that aspirin may not be as beneficial as previously thought for preventing heart attacks in diabetic patients.

Sarcopenia - low skeletal muscle mass and strength - is associated with insulin resistance in both obese and non-obese individuals, and high blood sugar in the obese.

The generally harmless infection was present in more than 80% of the children studied, all of who had type 1 diabetes.

Preventing complications from diabetes requires more than just good blood sugar control; it also requires patients to control their cholesterol and blood pressure.

The discovery could lead to new treatment options for this infection of the lungs, brain, and sinuses.

A new study from the Group Health Research Institute reveals that patients with diabetes are at a 40% increased risk for developing atrial fibrillation.

Tests of the blood sugar control mechanism, developed by Boston University researchers and tested at Massachusetts General Hospital, confirm the feasibility of an approach utilizing doses of both hormones.

The pros and cons of using the hemoglobin A1C test to diagnose prediabetes and diabetes was the subject of a lively debate at the AACE Meeting.

The benefits of intensive glycemic control on microvascular and neuropathic complications remain clear and well established in both type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

The AACE highlighted a number of studies on a wide range of endocrinology topics from adrenal disorders to metabolic bone disease.

The efficacy of liraglutide,is not impacted in subjects with type 1 diabetes who develop anti-liraglutide antibodies.

Colesevelam HCL is effective not only in lowering LDL-cholesterol but in reducing glycemic levels in people with prediabetes.

I thought I lost a patient a few weeks ago. No, he didn't die, but after his office visit, I had the distinct impression that he might not come back. My job is to take care of my patients' health. But sometimes I'm just the messenger.

While hyperglycemia is a risk factor for microvascular complications, most patients die of macrovascular disease, which is strongly influenced by dyslipidemia.

There is a new drug treatment strategy coming down the pipeline for diabetes, one that targets the kidney.

As adolescent diabetics get older, the level of parental involvement in their lives decreases, resulting in increasingly poorer adherence to treatment regimens.

A recent study found that the mortality rate of patients with mild to moderate hypoglycemia, a condition previously considered clinically unimportant, was twice as high as those who did not have the condition.

Purchases of cholesterol and diabetes prescription drugs by elderly Medicare beneficiaries reached nearly $19 billion in 2007 – about 1/4 of the approximately $82 billion spent for medications for the elderly.

Researchers at the medical College of Georgia recently examined the link between diabetes, treatment for the condition, and eating disorders.