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Societies offer guidance on treatment of hyperglycemic crises
An updated consensus statement from several diabetes and endocrinology organizations provides recommendations on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of diabetic ketoacidosis and hyperglycemic hyperosmolar state.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2024/07/12/1.htm
12 Jul 2024
Jinlida granules may reduce diabetes risk in patients with impaired glucose tolerance
A Chinese herbal compound was found to significantly lower blood glucose and lipid levels and reduce waist circumference over two years of follow-up compared to placebo, a randomized controlled trial in China found.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2024/06/14/3.htm
14 Jun 2024
Spotlight on hypoglycemia in older patients
One recent study highlighted the problem of physical food insecurity and another identified predictors of impaired hypoglycemia awareness, both in older diabetes patients. A review suggested varying continuous glucose monitoring targets for older patients by their health status.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2024/06/14/5.htm
14 Jun 2024
Coaching may improve diabetes clinical outcomes in real-world primary care settings
A primary care program with health coaching by medical assistants resulted in significantly greater improvements in HbA1c levels than usual care in a trial of high-risk type 2 diabetes patients at two U.S. centers.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2024/06/14/2.htm
14 Jun 2024
Effects of early, intensive glycemic control endure for decades, UKPDS data show
Twenty-four years after beginning intensive therapy with a sulfonylurea, insulin, or metformin in the United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS), type 2 diabetes patients had significant reductions in mortality compared with patients getting conventional glycemic control.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2024/06/14/1.htm
14 Jun 2024
Hyper-, hypokalemia with SGLT-2 inhibitors related to eGFR decrease after initiation
A decline of more than 30% in estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) after initiation of sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitor therapy was associated with higher risk for hyperkalemia and hypokalemia in an observational study from Taiwan.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2024/05/10/2.htm
10 May 2024
Evening workouts associated with lower mortality in type 2 diabetes
Patients with type 2 diabetes and obesity who worked out in the evening had greater reductions in risk for mortality and cardiovascular and microvascular disease than those who exercised in the morning or afternoon, a retrospective study found.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2024/05/10/3.htm
10 May 2024
GLP-1s didn't increase risk of postop respiratory complications, study finds
Patients taking glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists for type 2 diabetes before emergency surgery had a 3.5% incidence of postoperative respiratory complications compared with 4% among patients taking other diabetes medications.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2024/05/10/1.htm
10 May 2024
Statins may affect diabetes risk primarily in patients with prediabetes
There was a dose-response relationship between statin use and new diabetes diagnoses, with most cases seen in patients whose glycemic markers were close to the diagnostic threshold for diabetes at baseline, an individual-patient meta-analysis found.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2024/04/12/2.htm
12 Apr 2024
About 5 in 1,000 U.S. adults have type 1 diabetes, 4 in 1,000 kids
In addition to a U.S. study assessing rates of type 1 diabetes in different age groups, a Swedish study looked at differences by age in whether patients' relatives also had the disease, finding that it was likely more tied to genetics in childhood-onset cases.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2024/04/12/3.htm
12 Apr 2024