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EHR-based tool may help predict life expectancy in older patients with diabetes
The tool uses sex, body mass index, serum creatinine level, dementia, metastatic cancer, peripheral vascular disease, albuminuria, home oxygen use, wheelchair use, current smoking, and the interaction between age and heart failure to generate a risk score.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2023/06/09/3.htm
9 Jun 2023
Half of diabetics do not meet recommended care goals
Almost half of U.S. adults with diabetes did not meet recommended goals for diabetes care, despite improvements in controlling risk factors and adhering to preventive practices from 1999 to 2010, a study concluded.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2013/05/10/1.htm
10 May 2013
Spotlight on diabetes knowledge and practice
Knowledge among U.S. patients and clinicians about recommended care for diabetes is good but could still use improvement, one can conclude from studies published this month.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2013/03/08/8.htm
8 Mar 2013
Urine, blood glucose self-monitoring equally effective for new type 2 patients
Patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes had equal improvement in HbA1c whether they self-monitored by testing their blood or urine glucose, a study found.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2014/11/14/1.htm
14 Nov 2014
Global diabetes summit to be held
The 2012 Global Diabetes Summit will be held Nov. 14-17, 2012, in Columbus, Ohio.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2012/10/12/12.htm
12 Oct 2012
Spotlight on ethnic differences in diabetes
Two recent studies highlighted some differences among ethnic groups in risk and incidence of diabetes.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2014/10/10/9.htm
10 Oct 2014
Spotlight on risk factors for developing diabetes
Several factors that increase or decrease one's risk of developing diabetes were identified by research released this month.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2012/08/10/9.htm
10 Aug 2012
Spotlight on exercise
Two recent studies analyzed the effects of exercise on glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes or impaired glucose tolerance.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2013/07/12/10.htm
12 Jul 2013
Spotlight on new diabetes technologies
Technological advances that could improve diabetes control in the future made the news in the past month.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2014/02/14/10.htm
14 Feb 2014
Herbal capsule may lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes in prediabetes patients
Patients with impaired glucose tolerance who were treated with Chinese herbs for a year were significantly less likely to develop diabetes than matched patients who didn't take the herbs, a study found.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2014/02/14/1.htm
14 Feb 2014