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Lifestyle interventions are better than drugs at delaying the onset of type 2 diabetes in at-risk patients, a major new analysis concludes. Promoting weight loss can delay the onset of type 2 diabetes by four years and has effects that last up to a decade, researchers found. The study, published in The Lancet last week, was a follow-up of the Diabetes Prevention Program, a trial Read more...

Steven Squires is part of a growing group in America: He is a diabetic. November is American Diabetes Month, a reminder that diabetes is on the rise in this country. According to the American Diabetes Association, 8 percent of the U.S. population -- 23.6 million people -- have diabetes; 90 percent have type 2 diabetes, and 10 percent have type 1. Diabetes increased 13.5 percent in the U.S. Read more...

It was discovered by accident more than a decade ago that weight-loss surgery often led to a dramatic improvement in the control of type 2 diabetes, often before patients left the hospital. Today, evidence of the connection is so solid that some doctors say surgery should be considered as a treatment for diabetes, regardless of a person's weight. "We thought diabetes was an Read more...

OMAHA, Neb. -- Ignorance can kill. Survey results just released by the American Diabetes Association show Americans don't realize diabetes can kill. Less than half of the respondents chose diabetes when asked whether diabetes, breast cancer or AIDS causes the most deaths. Diabetes kills more than breast cancer and AIDS combined. Sue McLaughlin of the American Diabetes Association says Read more...

U.S. researchers have designed smartphones that help elderly people in China who have diabetes manage the disease. A team of researchers at Saint Louis University and Old Dominion University in Virginia said the interactive gaming system enables patients to learn about their disease and track their blood glucose, weight, diet, exercise, mood and blood pressure -- information that helps Read more...

QUESTION: My neighbor swears by apple cider vinegar, and every time I complain about my health, she rants about the vinegar. I haven't tried it, but I have to say she looks fairly healthy and never gets sick. Do you think there's something to it? ANSWER: Vinegar has been used for centuries for many purposes including cleaning, killing weeds and pickling. Apple cider vinegar (ACV) is sold as a Read more...

He had to give up his favorite breakfast buffet and take up walking, but the payoff has been priceless for Jim Scheder. The retired truck driver from Carrick staved off diabetes, an illness that afflicted his late father. "I don't want diabetes," said Scheder, 81. "Years ago, they told me I had borderline diabetes. Everything turned out OK and I forgot about it. Then I read Read more...

Patients with diabetes are 43 percent more likely to have a fracture during periods when they are taking glitazones than when they are not, an analysis of doctors prescribing data suggests. The new findings, from "real-world" patients -- an average of 10 years older than those in clinical trials -- follow several trials that also found glitazone use was associated with an increase Read more...

A molecule found in the skin of red grapes lowered insulin levels in mice, even those fed a high-fat diet, researchers in Dallas said. Resveratrol, when injected in the brain, proved effective in lowering insulin levels in mice with Type 2 diabetes, said Dr. Robert Coppari, assistant professor of internal medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. "Our study Read more...

Diabetes increases the likelihood that women will develop an abnormal heart rhythm that can lead to stroke or heart failure, according to a Portland-based Kaiser Permanente researcher. Diabetes increases the likelihood that women will develop atrial fibrillation by 26 percent, said Greg Nichols, lead author of a study published in the October issue of Diabetes Care. Nichols is an Read more...

New research is finding that exercise relieves a dangerous side effect of diabetes called neuropathy. Neuropathy is numbness and muscle weakness in the arms, legs and feet. It can result in ulcers, injuries, even broken bones -- often going undetected because people can't feel the injuries. "The old advice to patients with neuropathy is to curtail some of their activity," said Read more...

Many people with Type 2 diabetes may be jeopardizing their health by not following national dietary guidelines for the disease, according to a study from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. The study, released yesterday, appears in the August issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association. The connection between Type 2 diabetes and being overweight has been Read more...

A study of U.S., British and German diabetes patients found 44 percent say the disease affects their ability or desire to have sex, researchers said. The study, conducted online among 2,000 patients with type 2 diabetes, investigated patients' attitudes, feelings, health status, drug treatment programs and needs for coping with life with diabetes. The study, conducted by The Research Read more...

Experts have published more evidence that a commonly-prescribed diabetes drug increases the risk of heart failure compared with a similar medication. A new study confirms previous research that Avandia (rosiglitazone), a drug for Type 2 diabetes, is associated with an increased risk of heart failure and death. The research among older patients, published online in the British Medical Read more...

WASHINGTON -- Federal health regulators approved a potential blockbuster diabetes drug from Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and partner Astrazeneca PLC. The Food and Drug Administration said it approved the companies' drug Onglyza to reduce blood sugar levels in patients with type 2 diabetes, which affects 24 million people in the U.S. The drug is part of a new wave of medications taking aim at Read more...

Israeli and German researchers suggest body fat can become stressed and behave dysfunctionally. The consequences of this dysfunctionality, the researchers say, may include common diseases -- such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases -- attributed to obesity. The study, published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, has identified a signaling pathway in Read more...

Seven years ago, doctors told Joe Crump he had diabetes. He figured the diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes meant he'd have to take a pill and lay off sweets. After all, he felt fine. "It's hard to respect something that doesn't hurt you," says Crump, 61. "I didn't need to go to the emergency room." That was until he suffered a minor heart attack in 2007, his second. And Read more...

U.S. scientists say a cellular protein that might prevent nerve cell death also helps improve insulin action and lowers blood glucose levels. Researchers at Yeshiva University's Albert Einstein College of Medicine and at the University of California-Los Angeles said their study, which focused on diabetic rodents, is the first to show a role in glucose metabolism for humanin, a small peptide Read more...

Smoking increases the risk of heart disease and stroke because nicotine builds insulin resistance, U.S. researchers say. The insulin resistance creates a condition known as "pre-diabetes," in which blood glucose levels are elevated, but not to the point of diabetes, the researchers said at the Endocrine Society's 91st annual meeting in Washington. Pre-diabetes, the researchers Read more...

A meta-analysis found people who have diabetes but maintain low-blood sugar levels are at less risk for heart attacks, researchers in Britain say. Dr. Kausik Ray of the University of Cambridge and colleagues said the meta-analysis pooled information from five large trials. The study, published in The Lancet, determined there was a 17 percent reduction in heart attacks and a 15 percent Read more...