While there are different types of diabetes, they all stem from the body’s inability to regulate blood sugar. When we eat food, the body turns it into glucose (sugar) which provides us with the energy ...

“Type 5 diabetes is a newly recognized form of diabetes that emerges primarily from chronic undernutrition, especially during ...

Doctors explain what diabetes remission really means, why crash diets fail, and how consistent lifestyle changes, early ...

People who are overweight or obese have a significantly increased risk of developing diabetes, but exactly how that happens is not well understood. A new study at Washington University School of ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - November is National Diabetes Awareness Month, a time when communities across the country bring attention to the condition that hundreds of thousands of Americans live with. Two ...

Overcoming the challenges in managing type 1 diabetes can sometimes feel like an unappreciated "superpower." That was part of the thinking behind the creation of a comic book trilogy that aims to ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - While some research has suggested that obese women have an increased risk of having a baby with a birth defect, a new study shows that diabetes may at least partly account ...

John Wentworth has found that immune cells in fat tissue explain the link between obesity and diabetes. Inflammation-causing cells in fat tissue may explain the link between obesity and diabetes, a ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Differences in medication adherence do not fully explain why African Americans fare more poorly than whites in managing their diabetes, a new study suggests. Research has ...

While hydrating won’t replace any medications prescribed for diabetes, it does play a role in staving off high readings. Here ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo.– People with type 2 diabetes are eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine but not type 1. CoxHealth’s President and CEO Steve Edwards believes that should change. “Right now in Missouri, if ...

Ethnicity & Disease, Vol. 26, No. 4, Obesity (Autumn 2016), pp. 529-536 (8 pages) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National diabetes fact sheet: national estimates and general information ...