Credit: CC0 Public Domain In a recent study from the University of Kentucky, researchers found that changes to mitochondria—the powerhouse of cells—drive chronic inflammation from cells exposed to certain types of fats. This could be the real cause of inflammation in type 2 diabetes. The finding shatters the prevailing assumption

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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Navigating through congested road traffic is enough to make even the most laid-back people lose their cool. As it turns out, just the sound of road noise may increase the risk of developing high blood pressure and diabetes. That was the finding of researchers who conducted

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Credit: CC0 Public Domain In a recent study published in The BMJ, researchers found for people with diabetes, sticking to a low glycemic diet results in small but important improvements in blood sugar levels, cholesterol, weight and other risk factors. These improvements were seen over and above existing drug or

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Credit: CC0 Public Domain In a new study from Duke University, researchers found for people with difficult-to-control diabetes, adding intensive weight management counseling to group medical visits provided extra health benefits beyond improved blood-sugar control. The weight counseling approach emphasized a low-carb diet, with participants logging better weight loss, less

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Credit: CC0 Public Domain In a new study from Washington University in St. Louis, researchers found for people with obesity, a procedure rarely performed in the US more effectively eliminates type 2 diabetes than Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. They found that biliopancreatic diversion appears more effective at eliminating diabetes not just

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Credit: CC0 Public Domain In a new study from Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS), researchers have developed a pain-free, non-invasive and fast way detector of early diabetes warning signs. It is a non-invasive scanning device that checks the advanced glycation end products (AGEs) level concentrated in a person’s skin tissue.

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Credit: CC0 Public Domain In a new study from the VA North Texas Health Care System, researchers found for individuals with diabetes, statin initiation is linked to diabetes progression. They examined diabetes progression after statin initiation among patients with diabetes. Data were obtained from patients aged 30 years or older who initiated

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Credit: CC0 Public Domain In a new study from Newcastle University, researchers found that the amount of fat stored in the liver is higher in people with type 2 diabetes (T2D), whatever their BMI. It also suggested that levels of liver fat currently considered to be healthy can be metabolically

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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Your body takes care of countless tasks for you. You might not notice all it’s doing to keep you healthy until something goes wrong. Diabetes is a serious disease that happens when your body has trouble managing and using blood glucose, a sugar that your body

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Credit: CC0 Public Domain The diabetes drug metformin — derived from a lilac plant that’s been used medicinally for more than a thousand years — has been prescribed to hundreds of millions of people worldwide as the frontline treatment for type 2 diabetes. Yet scientists don’t fully understand how the

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