11-08-03 Obesity is the main culprit（犯人，罪犯） in the worldwide avalanche（雪崩） of type 2 diabetes. But how excess weight drives insulin resistance, the condition that may lead to the disease, is only partly understood. Scientists at Joslin Diabetes Ce...

11-06-26 AURORA, Colo. (June 25, 2011) New research shows that adolescents and young adults with type 1 (juvenile) diabetes have thicker and stiffer carotid arteries（颈动脉） , also known as atherosclerosis（动脉硬化） , a risk factor for heart attack and s...

11-06-26 The 25.8 million Americans who have diabetes may soon be free of finger pricks（刺，扎） and daily insulin dosing. Mayo Clinic endocrinologists（内分泌学家） Yogish Kudva, M.B.B.S., and Ananda Basu, M.B.B.S., M.D., are developing an artificial pancr...

11-06-26 The life expectancy of people diagnosed with type 1 diabetes dramatically increased during the course of a 30-year, long-term prospective study, according to a University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health study being presented at the 71...

11-06-26 A major international study collating and analyzing worldwide data on diabetes since 1980 has found that the number of adults with the disease reached 347 million in 2008, more than double the number in 1980. The research, published today in The Lan...

11-06-15 In an analysis of data from several studies, watching television for 2-3 hours per day or more was associated with a higher risk of type 2 diabetes, fatal and nonfatal cardiovascular disease（心血管疾病） and all-cause death, according to a study in...

11-04-07 A new 17 year follow-up study of 37,000 Israeli teenagers found that diabetes risk is mainly associated with increased body mass index (BMI) close to the time of diagnosis at early adulthood, while coronary heart disease（冠心病） risk is associated...

11-02-25 A simple home urine test（尿检） has been developed which can measure if patients with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are producing their own insulin. The urine test, from Professor Andrew Hattersley's Exeter-based team at the Peninsula Medical School,...

11-02-17 Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have discovered a novel function of brain insulin, indicating that impaired（受损的） brain insulin action may be the cause of the unrestrained lipolysis（脂类分解） that initiates and worsens type 2 d...

11-01-24 Strokes are a leading cause of mortality and adult disability. Those that involve intracerebral hemorrhage（脑内出血） (bleeding in the brain) are especially deadly, and there are no effective treatments to control such bleeding. Moreover, diabetes...