If you are a parent, you have probably said it to your kids, “No more sweets or you’ll get diabetes!” It is practically a universal warning in households but here’s the twist: sugar does not cause ...

Recognizing November as American Diabetes Month serves to bring awareness to the over 38 million Americans living with diabetes and also represents a time to come together as a community. Diabetes is ...

While it has long been known that type 1 diabetes runs in families, experts are less certain about what actually starts the autoimmune attack that defines the disease. Most people with type 1 diabetes ...

A test using genetics to predict who is at the highest risk of developing type 1 diabetes could one day be applied to ...

Type 1.5 diabetes isn’t a myth. It shares features of both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes — it develops in adults, like Type 2, but involves an autoimmune process, ...

Variants that lower LDL cholesterol through pathways such as HMGCR and NPC1L1 are linked to a higher risk of type 2 diabetes. People with familial hypercholesterolaemia, who have very high LDL ...

The researchers found that adults with learning disabilities had lower odds of poor glycemic control, faster insulin initiation, and double the risk for all-cause and diabetes-related mortality, ...

Type 1 diabetes was linked to increased risk for dementia, especially vascular dementia, non-Alzheimer-nonvascular dementia, and Alzheimer disease.