Diabetes is a chronic condition involving issues regulating blood sugar (glucose). When glucose levels are too high, you may be at risk of developing problems with your kidneys, heart, and other parts ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Unlike Type 1 and Type 2, a Type 5 diabetes diagnosis is new. The International Diabetes Federation officially recognized Type 5 ...

More than 1 in 10 Americans have diabetes—that's a lot of people. But diabetes isn't just one universal condition. There are many different types. All types involve problems with blood sugar ...

Adult-onset diabetes consists of five types of disease that have different physiological and genetic profiles, rather than the traditional type 1 and 2 classification, say Scandinavian researchers, ...

For many, diabetes is seen as a condition only faced by older adults—a so-called “disease of aging,” with the typical image of grey-haired grandparents managing medications and monitoring sugar. But ...

Health authorities have officially recognized a new form of diabetes that targets young and slim people. The condition was first spotted in Jamaica in 1955, when 13 patients visited the clinic of Dr ...

A new study details the discovery of rare gene variants that increase the prevalence of Type 2 diabetes in multiple generations of Asian Indian people. The unusual finding is a step toward more ...