It may or may not surprise you to know that lots of people with diabetes don’t really know how to use their glucose meters.  By that I mean they were never given a good explanation of when test to test or why. Naturally this refers mostly to folks not on insulin (because taking insulin generally [...]

It may or may not surprise you to know that lots of people with diabetes don’t really know how to use their glucose meters.  By that I mean they were never given a good explanation of when test to test or why. Naturally this refers mostly to folks not on insulin (because taking insulin generally [...]

Review covering 8,900 patients and 4,500 health-care providers from 28 countries shows that eating out, lack of social support and high-risk lifestyles are just some of the barriers that stop patients with type 2 diabetes from controlling their condition. Researchers say that health-care providers need to adopt a holistic approach, pointing out that psychosocial, socioeconomic, physical, environmental and cultural factors can provide major barriers to effective care.

Hydrogen sulfide is commonly associated with smell of rotten eggs, stink bombs and blocked drains but lower blood levels of the gas are possibly linked to cardiovascular complications in some male patients with type II diabetes.

Diabetologia - Clinical and Experimental Diabetes and Metabolism

Blindness, renal failure, stroke and heart disease are potential complications of type 2 diabetes, which currently afflicts more than 15 million Americans. Now research has found more worrying news -- type 2 diabetes can be a risk factor accelerating cognitive decline and dementia.

American Journal of Medicine

The primary risk factor for type 2 diabetes is obesity. 90 percent of all diabetics are overweight or obese. Medical research indicates that surgery to reduce obesity can completely eliminate all manifestations of diabetes. Investigators analyzed 621 studies from 1990 to April of 2006, which showed that 78.1 percent of diabetic patients had complete resolution and diabetes was improved or resolved in 86.6 percent of patients as the result of bariatric surgery.

Clinical Endocrinology

A British study suggests that one in three patients with Type 2 diabetes may be given medication to control the condition "too early."

Cardiovascular Diabetology

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

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Expert Review of Endocrinology & Metabolism

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March 3, 2009 (EurekAlert) - A report in the March issue of Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication, has found that a signal known to play a role during fasting also switches on early in the fat tissue of obese...

An analysis of 621 studies on more than 135,000 patients has confirmed weight-loss surgery's ability to reverse Type 2 diabetes.

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February 18, 2009 (EurekAlert) - For patients with type two diabetes, a combination of two blood-pressure-lowering drugs reduces the risk of kidney disease by about 20 percent—even in patients who don't have high blood pressure, reports a study in the...

For the last 10 years or so, medical authorities have been advocating starting people with Type 2