Diabetes

A new study has found that Type 2 diabetes in black patients is driven by a different mechanism than the the conventional concept of visceral fat deposition generating insulin resistance, as largely determined by research history in the white European population.  The results imply that Black patients have a very different reason for developing Type...

Within the United States, there are over 2.5 million Latino Americans suffering with type II diabetes mellitus.  This is alarming, not only because Latinos are 17% more likely to develop diabetes than their white counterparts, but also because Hispanic women are 1.5 times more likely to die from diabetes than white woman.  The lack of...

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a common complication of diabetes mellitus (DM). It is the most common cause of acquired blindness in adults, despite all the recent innovative treatments for DM. A large epidemiologic study found evidence of DR in 40% of adults with DM and in 3.4% of the general US population.1 Early identification can...

Diabetes is a risk factor of both hypertension and coronary artery disease due to increased systemic pressures and increased atherosclerosis, increasing the risk of cardiomyopathy and congestive heart failure. There is a high prevalence of diabetes mellitus among heart failure patients with one study showing a 40% of hospitalized heart failure patients having comorbid diabetes...