11 years ago, a US study involving 5 145 overweight or obese individuals living with type 2 diabetes was started with the goal of determining whether heart attacks or strokes could be prevented through diet and weight loss. The study has now been discontinued, 2 years early, because the intense diet and exercise program was [...]

A recent study published online in the British Medical Journal assessed 2798 individuals at risk of developing type 2 diabetes (T2D) to determine the effects of statin use on the development of T2D and the impact of lifestyle changes. Researchers discovered that over a period of 1 year, 7.5% of patients taking statins developed T2D [...]

A new study conducted in the UK found that half of South Asian, African and African Caribbean participants had Type 2 diabetes by the age of 80. This was about double the incidence of the disease in Europeans. Researchers speculated that body fat, especially around the waist, could be a contributor of the difference, but [...]

Research shows that black African American adults in the US are 77% more luckily to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes than non-Hispanic white adults.  However, ethnic minorities that include African Americans are significantly underrepresented in critical trials.  Although pharmaceutical companies are aware of this, only recently have they become more active. Last week, Boehringer [...]

This research was recently published in the journal Diabetes (May 2011, vol. 60 no. 5 1474-1477). Undertaken by Mittendorfer, Horowitz, DePaoli, et al. the purpose of the study was to determine whether leptin treatment has weight loss–independent effects on insulin action in obese subjects with type 2 diabetes. The study concluded that r-Met hu leptin does [...]