Diabetes

More disability payments led to fewer hospitalizations for Vietnam veterans with diabetes, according to a new report. The research looked at 14,000 Vietnam vets who benefited from a 2001 policy …

Disability payments can help keep veterans with diabetes out of the hospital Read More

Addressing the social determinants of health may improve diabetes outcomes, according to a review published in the July issue of Health Affairs. Leonard E. Egede, M.D., from the Medical College …

Nonmedical interventions may improve type 2 diabetes outcomes Read More

Credit: CC0 Public Domain While patients with diabetes on Medicare Advantage plans are more likely to receive preventive treatments, they were less likely to be prescribed newer, more expensive medications …

Diabetes patients on Medicare Advantage plans more likely to have worse health, study finds Read More

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A study supported in part by the EU-funded PREVENT-2024 project has found that simultaneously measuring dozens of types of fat in the blood can help predict …

Lipids point the way to early diabetes and cardiovascular disease risk prediction Read More

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Over 30 million Americans have diabetes, and more than 7 million of them require daily insulin. But the cost of the drug has risen considerably in …

Insulin is an extreme financial burden for over 14% of Americans who use it Read More

Credit: CC0 Public Domain From 2017 to 2020, American obesity prevalence was 41.9%, according to the CDC. During that timespan, roughly 135 million Americans were considered medically obese, putting a …

What is sugar alcohol? The reduced-calorie sweetener you might not recognize Read More

Credit: Jacob Lund/Shutterstock Since the beginning of the pandemic, COVID has infected at least a third of the U.K. population and is estimated to have factored in the deaths of …

Five ways the pandemic has affected routine medical care Read More

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Vitamin D supplementation may help offset damaging bone loss that occurs in some people who take canagliflozin, a commonly prescribed diabetes drug. Researchers will present their …

Vitamin D supplements may offset bone loss caused by diabetes drug Read More

Pathogenesis of COVID-19 symptoms and therapeutic strategies. The insulin/IGF signaling pathway plays an important role in many biological processes, such as energy metabolism and cell survival. SARS-CoV-2 infection impairs transcriptional …

The surprising link between SARS-CoV-2 infection and new-onset diabetes Read More

Beta cells (green) produce the hormone insulin. Credit: Masur / Wikimedia Commons Research into the causes of type 1 diabetes often focuses on the autoimmune response, where the immune system …

Focus on beta cells instead of immune system could be key to preventing type 1 diabetes Read More