September 11th 2024
EASD 2024: New data shows survodutide may be beneficial for persons with obesity and MASH.
September 10th 2024
Your daily dose of the clinical news you may have missed.
September 6th 2024
Across two clinical trials in the QWINT program, once-wekly efsitora showed comparable A1C reduction to frequently used daily insulins.
August 27th 2024
The Omnipod 5 is now the first automated insulin delivery system available for both T1D and T2D in the US.
August 16th 2024
Primary care clinicians can screen at-risk individuals for type 1 diabetes with a single autoantibody panel. It pays to test and educate early, according to this author.
T2DM: Intensifying Rx When Diet, Lifestyle and OADs Aren't Enough
A how-to overview of how to advance therapy for hyperglycemia and ASCVD risk factors in patients with T2DM.
Self-monitoring Blood Glucose in T2DM: It's Essential
Self-monitoring of blood glucose is critical for all patients with T2DM and their physicians.The numbers help modify behavior and Rx.
7 Top Diabetes Apps for Primary Care
Seven top diabetes apps for PCPs include insulin calculators, Rx algorithms, comorbidity support, and patient tracking tools.
Type 2 Diabetes: What Busy PCPs Need to Know
Primary care physicians absorb the burden of type 2 diabetes care. Get step-by-step support with our Special Report.
When Atrial Fibrillation and Diabetes Coexist, How Best to Prevent Stroke?
In these complicated patients, should warfarin or a novel oral anticoagulant be chosen for stroke prevention?
2017 ADA Standards of Medical Care: Evidence-based Updates
Cardioprotection, diabetes anxiety, and hypoglycemia protection are just a few of the areas amended with new guidance.
Tachy-brady Syndrome in an 85-Year-Old Woman
Tachy-brady syndrome can be a particular management challenge in an elderly patient. How would you manage Mrs Robertson?
Atrial Fibrillation and Sick Sinus Syndrome: A Clinical Catch-22
Concurrence of AF and SSS is common in older patients and presents a treatment conundrum. Can you balance safety and efficacy in this patient?
Adult Vaccination Part 1: Patients with Diabetes Mellitus
What are the most important vaccines your patients with diabetes should receive?
Adult Vaccination Part II. Older Adults
Intensive Program Extends Lifespan in T2D Patients
Results unequivocally support early, aggressive, and sustained risk factor control in patients with complicated type 2 diabetes.
Diabetes Disparities and Differences
Wild variations in treatment success and how T2D differs in youth and adults top the diabetes news. Click inside for highlights.
New Diabetes Drugs May Also Improve Kidney Health
The renal protective effects seen with the SGLT2 inhibitor canogliflizin may be independent of glycemic control, suggest authors of a new post-hoc analysis.
Coping with Advanced Diabetic Retinopathy Leads to Depression
Authors of a new study note that a simple self-report question about mental health history in patients with ADR may lead to important intervention.
Study Finds Diabetes a Risk Factor for Excess Antibiotic Use
A large Danish study compared community antibiotic use and hospital-treated infections between people with and without type 2 diabetes.
Flu Shot Drops CV Risk in Type 2 Diabetes
Flu deaths are higher among persons with chronic conditions, like T2DM. Flu vaccination should be part of comprehensive secondary prevention.
ADA: 'Boot Camp' Reins in Uncontrolled T2D
Results of the intensive 12-week intervention included a significant drop in healthcare utilization, missed work days, and A1c levels.
Diabetes, Obesity, and Weight Loss: An Update
New findings and guidelines translate into better awareness, understanding, and clinical decision making.
Hypoxia, Sleep Apnea Linked in Diabetes
And the parameters of hypoxemia may be more sensitive than the apnea–hypopnea index.
A Diabetes and Diet Update: 4 New Studies
This short slideshow highlights four new studies on eating habits that demonstrate how diet may affect patients’ health.
4 New Diabetes Links
Associations between diabetes and heart failure, insulin resistance, cancer, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease have been identified.
Type 2 Diabetes Reversible With Low Calorie Diet
Even patients who have had the condition for up to 10 years can reverse it by losing weight and then maintaining the weight loss.
Diabetes Drug May Stop Stroke, Help Lipids
Pioglitazone may prevent repeated cardiovascular events in some patients. Combined with omega-3 fatty acids, the drug also can improve lipid metabolism.
Diabetes Update: 4 New Studies
Recent research reveals how social media can help young patients avoid disease complications, how EHRs may ID patients for screening, and other findings.
10 New Wonders of Wine
Tonic or poison? Elixir or toxin? These slides offer a quick review of the latest findings on the health pros and cons of imbibing.
Diabetes Review: The 2 New Insulins on the Block
Got a minute? Check out this concise review of the facts about long-acting insulin formulations Toujeo and Tresiba.
New Diabetes Guidelines Steer Management
Refinements based on new clinical information fill out the particulars of a newly updated comprehensive algorithm.
4 New Developments in Diabetes
Here: a brief overview of 4 recent diabetes developments, including a call for a new way to classify the disease and a new online test for prediabetes.
Bezoar Secondary to Diabetic Gastroparesis
Intractable Nausea in a Young Woman
The 26-year-old patient has a history of type 1 diabetes; no other prior medical or surgical history. Antiemetics have failed. Can you Dx?