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The Vasotec brand of enalapril and the Cozaar brand of losartan slowed progression of diabetic eye damage in more than 65 percent of patients, the researchers found in a study partially funded by Merck.
Kidney disease known as diabetic neuropathy causes at least 45 percent of kidney failures in the United States. Diabetes [...]

“If we’re right, that is what’s going to stop Type 1 diabetes,” said Dr. David Finegold as he watched the blisters appear one to match each of four shots with intense satisfaction.
It’s a big “if.” The research is in its infancy, a first-step experiment to be sure the vaccine approach is safe before researchers [...]

The findings also suggest that depression is a key factor linked to the problems with sexuality for such women. In contrast to what has been shown in men, however, complications from diabetes itself do not have a significant impact.
The study, reported in the medical journal Diabetes Care, involved 652 women with type [...]

The drug, previously prescribed in higher amounts to treat Parkinson’s disease, targets a brain chemical that ultimately is involved in regulating metabolism, reports the Associated Press.
A single dose taken in the morning helped control the rise in blood sugar that typically follows daily meals. After six months of [...]

About one in three thought that their doctor would be able to cure their diabetes or that they wouldn’t always have diabetes, while most didn’t know about the hemoglobin A1C test, a key gauge of long-term blood glucose control.
“The newly observed misconceptions and related predictors may represent important opportunities for targeting barriers [...]

“Analytic studies on aspirin or non-aspirin nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and the risk of diabetes” outside of clinical trials are limited, write Dr. Yasuaki Hayashino, of the University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan, and colleagues.
To investigate, the researchers analyzed data from the Physician’s Health Study, which includes 22,071 apparently healthy male [...]

“I didn’t have that sense of urgency,” said the Pasadena, Md., woman.
But nine months later, doctors told Wagner her condition had worsened. She, too, now had Type 2 diabetes.
That scared her into action.
Now, two years later, the 55-year-old woman has slimmed down. She exercises regularly and her blood sugar levels are back [...]

Researchers reporting in the April issue of the Archives of Dermatology suspect the link may have to do with the chronic inflammation that is associated with all three conditions.
“We were able to prospectively evaluate the risk of diabetes and hypertension in U.S. women who had psoriasis,” said study author [...]

“The primary objective of islet-based research is to cure diabetes,” John S. Kaddis, of the City of Hope National Medical Center, in Duarte, Calif., and his colleagues wrote in the April 15 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, a themed issue on diabetes.
“Perhaps the most [...]

Bezafibrate belongs to a group of drugs called fibrates, which are used to lower cholesterol. Bezafibrate, sold under many trade names including Difaterol, Bezatol and Bezalip, is particularly useful in lowering triglycerides and raising high density lipoproteins, the “good” cholesterol.
If additional studies bear out these findings, bezafibrate could become an oral antidiabetic [...]