Skipping Diabetes Meds Ups Risk of Hospitalization
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NEW YORK  - Type 2 diabetic patients who  take their oral medications only part of the time have an  increased risk of being hospitalized within a one-year period,  the results of a new study indicate.
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NEW YORK  - People with heart disease who don't take their medications as prescribed risk suffering a heart attack or other heart-related event, a new study shows.
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NEW YORK  - Daily aspirin is usually recommended for people at increased risk for heart disease, and people with diabetes come into that category.
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NEW YORK  - Despite the high risk of  exacerbation and even death, high-risk patients discharged  after asthma hospitalizations often prematurely stop using  prescribed corticosteroids, researchers report in the American  Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
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MONDAY, Dec. 4 (HealthDay News) -- One of a new class of diabetes drugs delayed the progression of type 2 diabetes along with the need to add additional medications.
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Diabetes patients often neglect the most important treatment for saving lives: lowering cholesterol.
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MONDAY, Sept. 13 (HealthDayNews) -- Many Americans are not taking all their medicines because they can't afford them, and most aren't telling their doctors about it, new research shows.
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Treating children with anti-psychotic drugs may increase the risk of a condition which leads to diabetes, research suggests.
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An interrupted night's sleep may increase the risk of developing diabetes, a US-based study suggests.
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NEW YORK  - Biennial rather than annual eye screening in people with diabetes without signs of retinal disease is effective and does not lead to any undue delay in treatment, Icelandic researchers report in the December issue of the British Journal of Ophthalmology.
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Millions of adults at high risk of diabetes could ward off the disease by taking a drug commonly used to treat it, according to the largest diabetes prevention study yet conducted.
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The diabetes drugs Actos and Avandia raise the risk of heart failure but do not increase the risk of heart-related death, U.S. researchers said on Thursday, confirming earlier findings.
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NEW YORK  - Type 1 diabetics who have a  sibling with diabetic kidney disease have twice the risk of  also developing this complication, according to a new report.
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New research shows that many people who have heart disease - or are at risk of developing it owing to factors such as being overweight - also have undiagnosed diabetes, which increases their chance of an early death.
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Many patients stop taking their medicine far sooner than they should, researchers say, and that decision can be deadly when the drugs treat heart disease or diabetes.
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FRIDAY, May 25 (HealthDay News) -- Treatment of elderly patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes in U.S. nursing homes often fails to meet American Diabetes Association standards, according to a new study.
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Thousands of young diabetics could be skipping insulin injections in order to lose weight, the BBC learns.