For people with diabetes, watching their waistline is an important way to help control their blood glucose and lower the risk for complications from the illness.

New findings explain why variation in a particular gene is the most important determinant of fasting blood glucose levels in humans.

Vanderbilt Diabetes Day, an annual research symposium, this year featured talks by nationally known researchers and by winners of the Diabetes Scholar awards.

Vanderbilt University is part of a national effort to improve diabetes treatment by developing strategies for proliferating, regenerating and improving the function of insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreatic islets.

Vanderbilt University researchers are closer to understanding the link between obesity, chronic inflammation and type 2 diabetes.

A person’s mitochondrial gene “signature” could predict risk for diabetic retinopathy and guide early intervention strategies.

Up to 60 percent of patients who receive a stem cell transplant using cells from another donor will develop post-transplant diabetes mellitus, which can increase the rate of complications and death after the procedure.