Type 2 Diabetes

Can having a chronic disease define who you are?

A study of drug-trial enrollment in diabetes research showed researchers are routinely excluding women of childbearing age, even when there is little if any risk associated with pregnancy.

A new study may explain why nightshift works have a higher risk of type 2 diabetes.

Encouraging results from a small study suggest that a combination of compounds found in grapes and oranges could help treat diabetes and protect against cardiovascular disease in obese patients.

Aging may be beneficial to diabetes patients. Recent findings suggest a cellular aging process may, unexpectedly, enhance insulin secretion.

Do you think the effort to decrease healthcare spending is spinning out of control? Is the cost of red tape exceeding potential healthcare savings?

Do patients diagnosed with anxiety disorder experience a greater burden of metabolic disorders such as diabetes and hyperlipidemia?

Researchers measured cognitive function in diabetic patients to study the effects of losing weight and increasing physical activity on brain health.

Are efforts to enhance public awareness of the risk of prediabetes overkill, just right, or just not enough?

Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) has generally been associated with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) and insulin use.

People with diabetes are 1.46 times more likely to lose their teeth than healthy patients.

The World Health Organization, among many other health agencies, recommends breastfeeding for the first four to six months of a newborn’s life.

Being a good doctor is hard work, especially considering the current state of our health care system. Some doctors, however, are simply bad news. And because most doctors today have comparable education and credentials, bad doctors don’t exactly stick out like sore thumbs.

Public health officials across the globe are seeing a reciprocal relationship of obvious concern: obesity is increasing and physical activity is decreasing.

Our May list of news and research includes studies on type 2 diabetes risks, post-bariatric surgery results, and diabetic nephropathy.

Even though canagliflozin improves adiposity and glycemic control, a small study may have uncovered a surprising drug-related outcome.

An analysis of population-based medical databases has found that strokes are more likely to prove fatal in diabetic patients who use selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) than in diabetic patients who do not.

Researchers compared patients over and under 75 years of age to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the SGLT2 inhibitor in an older population.

Men diagnosed with multiple sclerosis often have higher blood pressure than women, in addition to higher levels of diabetes, epilepsy, depression, and anxiety.

Researchers have concluded that there is a small but significant genetic component to the observed connection between high body mass index (BMI) and psoriasis.

Does the body mass index of a diabetic patient have any effect on the efficacy of GLP-1 receptor agonists?

A new trial has found that 8 weeks on a very low-calorie diet can reverse all signs of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in many patients for at least 6 months.

Diabetic retinapathy is one of the leading causes of blindness

Kids with type 1 diabetes may be at higher risk for vitamin D deficiency.

Study results show that the majority of patients with retinal neovascularization due to proliferative diabetic retinopathy treated with bevacizumab experience total, long-term regression of their symptoms.

Aflibercept exerts anti-angiogenic effects against galectin-1, a galactoside-binding lectin protein and novel angiogenic factor associated with proliferative diabetic retinopathy.

After 12 or 24 monthly injections, ranibizumab, one of three currently available vascular endothelial growth factor antibodies, caused regression of diabetic retinopathy (DR) in at least 75% of patients who had diabetic macular edema and whose DR severity put them at the highest risk of progression to proliferative DR.

Exercise may lower the risk of diabetes, metabolic syndrome, or CV events, but the relationship between exercise and insulin sensitivity is complex.

A new study evaluated the comparative effectiveness and safety of monotherapy and selected metformin-based combinations for type 2 diabetes.

Adult studies show a link between sleep deprivation & increased CV factors, plus higher obesity & diabetes risk. Does the same hold true for teens?