Type 2 Diabetes

Under what circumstances may fructosamine levels be useful in monitoring glucose control?

The health effects of sedentary behavior, such as screen time, include adiposity & T2DM risk in adults. How does screen time affect children?

Could insulin could be dosed off of values from a continuous glucose monitor? Anne Peters, MD, and team sought to find out.

Farid Saad, DVM, PhD, Bayer Pharma AG learned that the men with type 1 diabetes did experience benefits of long-term testosterone therapy – they showed improvements in their underlying diseases.

How would you treat glucose excursions in a patient treated with prednisone?

Eight top apps for endocrinologists include decision support tools, printable patient handouts, calculators, and treatment guidelines.

New device draws blood painlessly from capillaries.

In a long-term study, surgery was better than medical care alone for diabetes.

Automatically administered insulin worked well in diabetic hospital patients.

Statins can trigger diabetes in some patients—will PCSCK9 drugs?

New studies review updated guidelines for metformin use, an examination of all-cause mortality in T2DM, and continuous glucose monitoring for T1DM.

The risk of urinary tract infections (UTIs), but not necessarily genital infections, may vary by agent within the SGLT2 inhibitor class.

Diabetes: trained dogs monitor glucose levels.

The device, initialized using only body mass, with no required data on usual insulin regimens, was compared to standard care with insulin pump and CGM.

Past studies have linked nut consumption to decreased risk of CVD & all-cause mortality, but have not systematically evaluated less common causes of death.

Maryland researchers found that even mild hypoglycemia can pose a cardiovascular risk in obese people with diabetes.

Creating a better understanding of how race and ethnicity impact social determinants of health can improve culturally tailored diabetes interventions.

Extracorporeal shock therapy helped patients with diabetes improve their range of motion when suffering from "frozen shoulder" a study in Italy found.

Sitagliptin tablets proved more convenient and equally safe and effective as insulin injections in achieving glycemic control for people with diabetes admitted to hospitals for medical care or surgery, a five-center study found.

Though all obese women are treated as though they are at high risk of getting diabetes during pregnancy, that's not true. Only a quarter of them do. A UK team has figured out how to assess risk.

With the holidays upon us, this month’s topic is a timely one – diet/physical activity misconceptions you may hear from patients and their families.

A new analysis indicates that a 25% reduction in exposure to certain household chemicals would reduce diabetes cases by approximately 13%, enough to save billions of dollars in annual health costs.

While one study found that taking vitamin D during pregnancy may hinder early ADHD symptoms, another recent study believes that gestational use of diabetes medications may lead to them.

As if egg-laying Australian mammals with webbed feet weren't fascinating enough, it turns out that their venom contains an insulin-stimulating peptide resistant to the forces that usually shorten its effectiveness in humans. Yes, they have venom.

For men afflicted with type 2 diabetes and at high risk for heart attacks; however, relief might be found in an unlikely source – the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra (sildenafil).