Search results for "Keeping tabs"
Spotlight on diabetes, drugs, and dementia
Low-dose aspirin was associated with reduced risk of dementia in women but not men with diabetes, and long-term use of metformin was associated with lower risk of Alzheimer's disease among patients with diabetes.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2019/12/13/5.htm
13 Dec 2019
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 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 bone density
Recent research quantified vertebral fractures in patients with type 2 diabetes, compared fracture risks of starting sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors or dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors, and measured bone mineral density in patients with type 1 diabetes.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2019/11/08/5.htm
8 Nov 2019
Spotlight on hypoglycemia
Two recent studies looked at the incidence of hypoglycemia among patients with diabetes around the world, while another offered an intervention to reduce hypoglycemia in patients with impaired awareness of it.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2018/05/11/5.htm
11 May 2018
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 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 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 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
Spotlight on CVD risk prediction
One study found that wider diabetes screening made a cardiovascular disease (CVD) prediction tool less accurate, while other research evaluated the ability of coronary artery calcium testing and a neuropathy questionnaire to identify type 2 diabetes patients with high CVD risk.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2021/06/11/5.htm
11 Jun 2021