Carbs have the greatest effect on blood sugar levels, but other nutrients also play a role. Saturated fat and sodium may affect blood sugar by worsening insulin resistance or elevating blood pressure.

Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and collaborating institutions have found that overnutrition leads to insulin resistance and metabolic disorders through increased activity of the ...

Around 20–40% of the general population are estimated to have insulin resistance—a condition where insulin begins to be less ...

Microalbuminuria is significant both as the earliest stage of diabetic nephropathy and as an independent cardiovascular risk factor in nondiabetic subjects, in whom it is associated with insulin ...

Researchers from the German Diabetes Center (DDZ) and the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) have studied the temporal pattern of insulin action on protein kinases in human muscle cells in ...

Two long-acting insulin analogs have been developed for use as "basal" components of insulin treatment regimens: glargine and detemir. (Insulin glargine has US Food and Drug Administration [FDA] ...