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Vitamin D may reduce risk of progression to diabetes from prediabetes
In adults with prediabetes, high-dose vitamin D was associated with a 12% to 15% reduced risk for diabetes compared with placebo, a systematic review and meta-analysis found, but an editorial cautioned about the uncertain risk of adverse effects.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2023/02/10/3.htm
10 Feb 2023
Metformin during pregnancy not associated with adiposity in children
A follow-up study of a randomized trial of women with type 2 diabetes during pregnancy found that scores for body mass index were similar up to age 24 months in children who were and were not exposed to metformin in utero.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2023/02/10/2.htm
10 Feb 2023
SGLT-2 inhibitors reduce cardiac events, mortality compared to DPP-4 inhibitors
Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitors were associated with lower risk of cardiovascular events compared to dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors but higher risk of genital infections and diabetic ketoacidosis, a retrospective study found.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2023/02/10/1.htm
10 Feb 2023
HbA1c at diagnosis may predict metformin failure, study finds
A model that included baseline HbA1c level, age, sex, and race/ethnicity had high discrimination for predicting failure risk, with the strongest association seen for HbA1c.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2023/01/13/2.htm
13 Jan 2023
Fiber-enriched formula linked to improved health-related quality of life, HbA1c in type 2 diabetes
Participants who consumed prebiotic fiber-enriched nutritional shakes had improved measures of health-related quality of life and reduced HbA1c level at 12 weeks compared to those who consumed placebo shakes, an industry-funded trial found.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2023/01/13/3.htm
13 Jan 2023
Diabetes incidence projected to increase among youth in U.S.
A modeling study using data from 2002-2017 found that incidence of type 1 and type 2 diabetes could increase in those under age 20 years by up to 65% and 673%, respectively, over the next three decades, although confidence intervals were wide.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2023/01/13/1.htm
13 Jan 2023
HbA1c-based screening of general population reduced time to diabetes diagnosis
In a British database, 1% of participants ages 40 to 70 years had undiagnosed diabetes. Researchers estimated that population-based screening using HbA1c level could have reduced the time to diagnosis in this group by a median of 2.2 years.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2022/12/09/2.htm
9 Dec 2022
Updated guideline on managing hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state issued by U.K. experts
The recommendations from the Joint British Diabetes Societies for Inpatient Care Group cover clinical assessment and monitoring, interventions, and assessments and prevention of harm, as well as five phases of therapy.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2022/12/09/3.htm
9 Dec 2022
Self-monitoring of blood glucose reduced HbA1c in noninsulin-treated patients
Self-monitoring of blood glucose 8 to 11 times a week was more effective than doing so more or less frequently, according to a new meta-analysis.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2022/12/09/1.htm
9 Dec 2022
Annual screening for albuminuria may not be necessary in all patients with type 1 diabetes
A recent study found that personalizing the timing of testing based on patients' albumin excretion rate and HbA1c level could reduce time with undetected kidney disease as well as testing frequency.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2022/11/11/2.htm
11 Nov 2022