Medscape Medical News, June 09, 2009 Breaking News from the floor of the ADA Meeting LEAD 6: Greater A1C ... Type 2 Diabetes Have Carotid Artery Abnormalities In youths, obesity and diabetes ...

Testing your blood sugar gives you important information about how well your type 2 diabetes management and treatment plan is working. It lets you see how factors such as food, exercise ...

C. Ronald Kahn, M.D. President and Director, Joslin Diabetes Center What is the A1c blood test? The hemoglobin A1C test is a measure of what we call long term glucose control. The way this works ...

Your A1C measures the amount of sugar in your red blood cells and gives an average of your blood sugar over a three-month period. Why is that important? After all, when you have diabetes ...

Nearly half of Type 2 diabetes patients suffer from micronutrient deficiencies, with vitamin D and magnesium being the most ...

Medically reviewed by Danielle Weiss, MD "Diabetes mellitus" is an umbrella term that refers to a group of insulin-related metabolic disorders (e.g., type 1 diabetes or type 2 diabetes) that affects ...

A new systematic review and meta-analysis published in the Clinical Nutrition ESPEN revealed promising outcomes for the ...

The diagnosis of diabetes mellitus in clinical practice has been ... where most of the diagnoses of type 2 diabetes occur. Although it may be used to define risk and attribute a diagnostic label ...

1,440-person Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT), published in 1993, established hemoglobin A1c as the gold standard for evaluating the risk for complications from type 1 diabetes.

use of telemedicine visits for patients with type 2 diabetes in the US skyrocketed and outpatient visits plummeted in one study, with no ill effects on A1c or medication refills. Medscape Medical ...