Type 2 Diabetes

A study of Swedish and Danish twins concluded that the long-observed association between type 2 diabetes mellitus and depression has a significant genetic component.

Researchers at ENDO 2016 presented studies focused on fighting the worldwide obesity epidemic, including risk identification and cold exposure.

Researchers compared four different methods of estimating starting basal insulin infusion rates when transitioning to pump therapy. Which was best?

Swedish researchers followed patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease for up to 41 years to come up with a scoring system to predict mortality risk.

Despite recently approved medications showing improvement over previously used diet pills and other treatments there is still no medicinal cure for obesity and the best hope for patients in many cases is lifestyle changes.

The US Food and Drug Administration recently approved some new tools in the fight against obesity. While they provide some help for patients looking to lose weight there are also side effects which doctors and patients patients to consider.

Post-transplantation diabetes (PTDM) is a common occurrence after solid-organ transplantation. Between 4 and 25% of transplant recipients develop this problem.

Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) are at risk of developing high blood pressure, which can cause renal and cardiovascular complications. Thus, a T2DM treatment plan must include blood pressure treatment.

There are many ways patients can better manage their cholesterol than they could just a few years ago. Whether they are successful in those efforts and the role of doctors and medications in that process remains to be seen.

Researchers looked at fractures, fall-related adverse events, and volume depletion-related adverse events in over 10,000 people taking canagliflozin.

A subject like hormones can often be difficult to understand and tedious to work through. The Essential Guide to Your Hormones is a new way to approach the subject while making it easier to understand and presented in a way that is better for patients and doctors to work with.

With millions of patients living with diabetes on a daily basis, a program which launched last year looks to help bring people together in an effort to improve overall patient health and satisfaction.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) patients at diagnosis have a higher rate of comorbid conditions -- including depression and diabetes Canadian researchers found.The intriguing question is whether such conditions put people at higher risk of MS.

Evidence suggesting the cardiovascular protective effects of SGLT2 inhibitors is growing, yet one potential risk increased.

The quest for manufactured insulin that mirrors the real thing has progressed a step forward.