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A new Canadian study examined the differences in the distribution and characteristics of adipose tissue — the loose connective tissue that stores energy in the form of fat — between South Asians and Caucasians.  Research has shown that South Asians (people originating from the Indian Subcontinent) are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes and […]

MedPage Today published an article about a Danish Cohort study finding that Metformin is safer than many of the most commonly used drugs to treat Type 2 diabetes. The study found that the medications Glimepiride, Glibenclamide, Glipizide, and Tolbutamide were associated with an increased risk of death compared with Metformin. The research was conducted by […]

MyHealthNewsDaily posted an article this week with new research shedding light on why weight loss surgery often reverses diabetes, while losing weight through diet and exercise do not. The study was conducted by researchers at Duke University Medical Center and was published in the journal Science Translational Medicine. The researchers studied two groups of obese […]

Two articles were published this week about the benefits of weight loss surgery for obese people with Type 2 Diabetes. The results of the groundbreaking research studies were presented at the 2nd World Congress on Interventional Therapies for Type 2 Diabetes. The first article from ScienceDaily discusses a study finding that bariatric surgery is an […]

Yesterday at the 2nd World Congress on Interventional Therapies for Type 2 Diabetes in New York, leading experts presented a statement by The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) supporting weight loss surgery to treat diabetes.  ScienceDaily reported that the statement was written by 20 experts in diabetes and bariatric surgery, who made recommendations on the use […]