What Protects Some Against Diabetes Complications?
Some people with diabetes possess yet-unidentified factors that reduce the risk for and even prevent them from developing diabetes-related complications, despite living with the disease for decades, a study published in the April issue of Diabetes Care has found. The study, conducted by the Joslin Diabetes Center on people who have lived with type 1... more
Drug Cuts Amputation Risk in Diabetes
Study: Cholesterol Drug Fenofibrate Also Decreases Diabetes-Related Amputation Treating type 2 diabetes patients with a cholesterol-lowering drug called fenofibrate cuts the risk of a first diabetes-related limb amputation by 36%, according to a new study published this week in The Lancet. “I would call that a substantial reduction in risk,”... more
Diabetes-related eye diseases
Ophthalmologists have ‘unique opportunity’ to influence patients with diabetes-related eye diseases. Diabetes prevalence has doubled in the past decade, and the increases in diabetes-related eye disease poses a new challenge to eye specialists, according to an editorial in the March issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, one of the Journal... more
