Search results for "Keeping tabs"
Spotlight on glycemic variability
Studies published in July looked at factors and conditions associated with variation in glycemic control between clinic visits, including diabetes treatment intensity and Alzheimer's disease.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2017/08/11/5.htm
11 Aug 2017
Spotlight on diabetes and sleep disorders
One review looked at rates of sleep disorders in patients with diabetes, another study found that the combination of impaired glucose tolerance and a sleep disorder increases mortality risk, and patient interviews revealed benefits and barriers to use of continuous positive airway pressure.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2021/09/10/5.htm
10 Sep 2021
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 inpatient hyperglycemia
A new guideline offered recommendations on managing hyperglycemia in hospital patients with or without diabetes. Recent studies looked at the effects of elevated blood glucose levels after surgery and in the ICU.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2022/07/08/5.htm
8 Jul 2022
Spotlight on the gut microbiome
A Finnish study found that certain gut bacteria were more common in people who later developed type 2 diabetes, while an Israeli study identified a distinct microbial signature in adults with type 1 diabetes compared with healthy controls.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2022/02/11/5.htm
11 Feb 2022
Spotlight on response to hypoglycemia
Recent studies looked at how low serum glucose levels in ambulatory patients are handled, what happens after a hospital visit for hypoglycemia, and the state of research on deprescribing in patients with diabetes.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2020/10/09/5.htm
9 Oct 2020
Spotlight on the value of care
One recent study found overtreatment of type 2 diabetes among elderly patients, while another looked at how many patients with diabetes would be referred to a liver specialist under proposed European guidelines.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2018/02/09/5.htm
9 Feb 2018
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 COVID-19 and new type 1 diabetes
A few case reports suggested a link between SARS-CoV-2 and development of insulin-dependent diabetes, but recent analyses of type 1 diabetes incidence during the pandemic have shown mixed results.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2020/09/11/5.htm
11 Sep 2020
Spotlight on prescribing patterns
One study found that physicians were unlikely to deprescribe hypoglycemia-causing medications in older diabetes patients, while others found suboptimal use of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists, sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors, and additional recommended medications.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2023/03/10/5.htm
10 Mar 2023