Search results for "Education"
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
Socioeconomic status appears linked to mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes
The study looked at data from the Sweden National Diabetes Register to determine what patient characteristics were related to all-cause mortality or death from cardiovascular-, diabetes-, or cancer-related causes.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2016/07/15/3.htm
15 Jul 2016
Beyond the Guidelines: Should we screen for type 2 diabetes?
Whether to screen a patient for type 2 diabetes is the focus of a Beyond the Guidelines feature in the Oct. 4 Annals of Internal Medicine.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2016/10/07/6.htm
7 Oct 2016
Continuous glucose monitoring associated with lower HbA1c in type 1 diabetes treated with insulin injection
An editorial accompanying the two trials of continuous glucose monitoring stressed that the physicians involved had extensive experience with the technology and noted that the necessary changes in lifestyle and insulin dosing can be variable and complicated.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2017/02/10/3.htm
10 Feb 2017
New risk score for CVD may be easier to use than existing scores in patients with diabetes
Researchers used data from the ADVANCE-ON study to develop the AD-ON risk score, a 10-year risk score for the combined endpoint of major cardiovascular disease (CVD) or chronic kidney disease.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2016/02/12/3.htm
12 Feb 2016
Review: In patients with type 2 diabetes who fast, sitagliptin reduces hypoglycemia more than sulfonylurea
Patients who took sitagliptin were significantly less likely to have hypoglycemia during Ramadan, according to a systematic review.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2015/11/13/6.htm
13 Nov 2015
Rosiglitazone REMS ends, new insulin approved
The FDA has determined that the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy is no longer necessary to ensure that the benefits of rosiglitazone-containing drugs outweigh their risks.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2016/01/08/6.htm
8 Jan 2016
Teaching diabetes self-management ‘basic survival skills'
Diabetes self-management education is a cost-efficient, effective treatment that is underused in the United States, according to speakers at the 2012 annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2012/09/14/8.htm
14 Sep 2012
In high-risk pregnant women, an individualized lifestyle intervention reduced gestational diabetes mellitus
The intervention in the Finnish study targeted women with previous gestational diabetes mellitus or a body mass index of 30 kg/m2 or greater.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2016/01/08/5.htm
8 Jan 2016
In overweight or obese patients with diabetes, a lifestyle intervention increased weight loss at 8 years
Receiving an intensive lifestyle intervention (ILI) rather than traditional diabetes support and education (DSE) increased weight loss in about 5,000 middle-aged adults with type 2 diabetes.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2014/07/11/5.htm
11 Jul 2014