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People living with diabetes could be set to benefit from a major research initiative to untangle the link between diabetes and heart disease – two of the most pressing global health crises.

A new study suggests that people with Type 2 diabetes may have worse cognitive function three to six months after a stroke than those with normal fasting blood sugar levels.

Researchers funded by us say a greater understanding of how zinc is handled in our body could lead to improved treatments for people with diabetes.

Diabetes can lead to blood vessel damage and raise your risk of heart disease, blindness and limb amputation. We’ve been funding research to find ways to grow or repair blood vessels damaged by diabetes.

Researchers at the University of Aberdeen are investigating a new treatment for diabetes which they hope could reduce one of the most common complications of the condition – sight loss.

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Research funded by the British Heart Foundation has found that people with naturally lower levels of LDL cholesterol have an increased risk of diabetes.

Smoking and diabetes are the two leading risk factors for peripheral artery disease (PAD), a narrowing of the arteries which can lead to limb amputation

Lowering high blood pressure is an effective way to reduce a person’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes in the future, according to research we've funded and published in The Lancet.

A team of scientists we fund at Queen’s University, Belfast, have discovered a gene that increases the risk of blood vessel damage in people with diabetes.