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Pathophysiology and treatment of type 2 diabetes: perspectives on the past, present, and future

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More effective therapies to slow progressive loss of β-cell function are needed and additional long-term studies of drugs and bariatric surgery are needed to identify new ways to prevent and treat type 2 diabetes and thereby reduce the harmful effects of this disease.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2014-03-22 and is currently open access. It has received 1219 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Insulin resistance & Insulin.

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Mortality and Cardiovascular Disease in Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes

TL;DR: In Sweden from 1998 through 2014, mortality and the incidence of cardiovascular outcomes declined substantially among persons with diabetes, although fatal outcomes declined less among those with type 2 diabetes than among controls.
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Cognitive decline and dementia in diabetes mellitus: mechanisms and clinical implications.

TL;DR: The evolving insights from studies on risk factors, brain imaging and neuropathology are reviewed, which provide important clues on mechanisms of both the subtle cognitive decrements and the more severe stages of cognitive dysfunction.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared a lifestyle intervention with metformin to prevent or delay the development of Type 2 diabetes in nondiabetic individuals. And they found that the lifestyle intervention was significantly more effective than the medication.
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Intensive blood-glucose control with sulphonylureas or insulin compared with conventional treatment and risk of complications in patients with type 2 diabetes (UKPDS 33)

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TL;DR: In this article, the effects of intensive blood-glucose control with either sulphonylurea or insulin and conventional treatment on the risk of microvascular and macrovascular complications in patients with type 2 diabetes in a randomised controlled trial were compared.
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Role of Insulin Resistance in Human Disease

TL;DR: The possibility is raised that resistance to insulin-stimulated glucose uptake and hyperinsulinemia are involved in the etiology and clinical course of three major related diseases— NIDDM, hypertension, and CAD.
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Prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus by changes in lifestyle among subjects with impaired glucose tolerance.

TL;DR: Type 2 diabetes can be prevented by changes in the lifestyles of high-risk subjects by means of individualized counseling aimed at reducing weight, total intake of fat, and intake of saturated fat and increasing intake of fiber and physical activity.
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Intensive blood-glucose control with sulphonylureas or insulin compared with conventional treatment and risk of complications in patients with type 2 diabetes (UKPDS 33). UK Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS) Group.

TL;DR: The effects of intensive blood-glucose control with either sulphonylurea or insulin and conventional treatment on the risk of microvascular and macrovascular complications in patients with type 2 diabetes in a randomised controlled trial were compared.
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