There is no cure for diabetes. The warning signs of diabetes can be so mild that you don't notice them. That's especially true of type 2 diabetes. You cannot treat diabetes on your own.

Getting to know what’s going on in your body can help you manage type 2 diabetes well. It’s a chronic condition in which your body doesn’t use insulin properly. This causes sugar to build up ...

Treatment can cause type 2 diabetes to go into remission. But remission does not mean that diabetes has gone away. You’ll need to manage and monitor your glucose levels to stay in remission.

Type 2 diabetes medications include metformin, sulfonylureas, alpha-glucosidase inhibitors, and other medications that change ...

Diabetes is a disorder of metabolism -- the way our bodies use digested food for growth and energy. There are three main types of diabetes: type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes.

Medically reviewed by Danielle Weiss, MD Diagnosing type 2 diabetes requires a series of lab tests looking for markers of ...

GP Dr Roger Henderson provides an overview of the chronic complications of diabetes and the key preventive measures ...

The following is a summary of “Contribution of type 2 diabetes to major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) in a long-term observational study with different stages of atherosclerosis,” published in ...

Globally, an estimated 422 million adults were living with diabetes in 2014, compared to 108 million in 1980. The global prevalence of diabetes has nearly doubled since 1980, rising from 4.7% to 8 ...

A recent study from Karolinska Institutet suggests that a type of diabetes medication called GLP-1 agonists could reduce the ...