One-third of diabetic patients prescribed metformin—the mostly commonly recommended diabetes drug—aren’t taking the medication due to side effects ranging from diarrhea to depression, researchers in the United Kingdom have found.

Life expectancy is declining for American women, according to a recent CBS report—and it’s mostly due to preventable disease.

Results from a recently published study suggest blood pressure begins to decline up to 18 years before death, with the sharpest dip occurring in the final two years.

A new study out of the United Kingdom suggests people truly are products of their environments—at least when it comes to developing obesity.

The past 12 months have seen a lot of excitement in the field of diabetes research, from growing national recognition of the disease to improved methods for treating it. Reader’s Digest compiled a list of the year’s most striking innovations to date.

Children with diabetes are seven times more likely to experience sudden cardiac death than their non-diabetic peers, according to research reported by the American Heart Association this week.

Cardiovascular disease’s “obesity paradox”—the idea that being dangerously overweight can improve end-of-life survival in heart patients—was recently debunked by a team of researchers in New York and Michigan, finding the claim to be untrue for those with incident heart disease.

A secondary analysis of the decades-old DASH-Sodium trial found the popular DASH diet, combined with a reduced sodium intake, successfully lowered systolic blood pressure in a hypertension-prone population, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.