Search results for "Keeping tabs"
Spotlight on COVID-19 and diabetes
Experts gave advice on which diabetes drugs should be stopped in patients with COVID-19, and studies highlighted associations between the two diseases.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2020/05/08/5.htm
8 May 2020
Spotlight on older diabetes patients
Recent studies of older patients with diabetes described the effectiveness of a lifestyle intervention, low use of continuous glucose monitoring, and high risk of falls with hypoglycemia.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2022/08/12/5.htm
12 Aug 2022
Spotlight on SGLT-2 inhibitors and heart failure
The effects of sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitors on heart failure, in patients with and without diabetes, were the focus of three analyses published in the past month, two on dapagliflozin and one on canagliflozin.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2019/10/11/5.htm
11 Oct 2019
Spotlight on youth-onset type 2 diabetes
One study found that patients who developed type 2 diabetes as children had high rates of diabetes complications, while another used genetic analysis to identify patients who actually had maturity-onset diabetes of the young but had been diagnosed with youth-onset type 2 diabetes.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2021/08/13/5.htm
13 Aug 2021
Spotlight on diabetes incidence and complications
Mortality and cardiovascular complications from diabetes have gone down, but incidence rates among youth are up, according to recent studies of Swedish and American patients, respectively.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2017/04/14/5.htm
14 Apr 2017
Spotlight on glycemic control during the pandemic
Several new studies showed that among patients with type 1 diabetes, glycemic control improved and diabetic ketoacidosis decreased during COVID-19 lockdowns, while patients with type 2 diabetes showed the opposite trend during the pandemic.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2021/10/08/5.htm
8 Oct 2021
Spotlight on the Diabetes Prevention Program
Data from the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) Outcomes Study showed little effect of diabetes prevention efforts on patients' cognition or coronary artery calcium, according two recent studies.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2017/06/09/5.htm
9 Jun 2017
Spotlight on geriatrics
Older patients with diabetes were the focus of several recent studies, including one that looked at associations between glycemic control and mortality and two that compared second-line medication options.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2017/03/10/5.htm
10 Mar 2017
Spotlight on tirzepatide
The first glucagon-like peptide-1 and glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide receptor agonist was approved by the FDA and analyzed by a number of recent studies.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2022/06/10/5.htm
10 Jun 2022
Spotlight on diabetes prevalence and control
Diabetes became significantly more common from 1999 to 2018, but control of associated risk factors did not, especially in rural areas of the U.S., according to data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2021/07/09/5.htm
9 Jul 2021