Search results for "Education"
Study finds ‘marked improvements’ in diabetes management from 1999 to 2016
While the proportion of U.S. adults with diabetes who attained glycemic, blood pressure, and lipid control increased during the study period, there was a lack of progress related to dietary guidelines.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2020/01/10/2.htm
10 Jan 2020
Diabetes drug classes associated with similar outcomes in low-risk patients
A systematic review and network meta-analysis found no differences between treatments for drug-naive patients with type 2 diabetes at low cardiovascular risk, leading the authors to conclude that metformin is justified as a first-line therapy.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2020/07/10/6.htm
10 Jul 2020
Text messages may improve glycemic control in patients with diabetes and coronary disease
Patients in a Chinese study received six automated text messages per week with educational and motivational information on glucose monitoring, blood pressure control, medication adherence, physical activity, and lifestyle.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2019/09/13/9.htm
13 Sep 2019
Spotlight on the diabetic foot
Recent diabetes research analyzed trends in lower-extremity amputations in Ontario, Canada, as well as how health literacy, procalcitonin, and mortality risk relate to diabetic foot infection outcomes.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2019/09/13/5.htm
13 Sep 2019
Incidence of diagnosed diabetes may be stable or declining in many countries
An analysis of 21 mostly high-income countries or jurisdictions found a downward or stable trend in clinically diagnosed diabetes incidence in recent years, but the drivers of these trends remain unknown, an accompanying editorial comment said.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2021/03/12/1.htm
12 Mar 2021
HbA1c testing in barbershops identified black men with undiagnosed diabetes
About one-third of men approached in barbershops owned by black individuals were willing to be screened for diabetes, and 9% of them had undiagnosed diabetes while 28% had prediabetes.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2020/02/14/2.htm
14 Feb 2020
HbA1c targets debated, history of SGLT-2 inhibitors explained
Experts offered differing recommendations for a patient's HbA1c target in Beyond the Guidelines, while a History of Medicine article said that the risks of sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitors could have been understood sooner.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2019/10/11/6.htm
11 Oct 2019
Spotlight on artificial intelligence and diabetic retinopathy
One recent study reported on the development and validation of an artificial intelligence algorithm for detecting diabetic retinopathy, while another tested such technology in primary care.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2018/10/12/6.htm
12 Oct 2018
One-hour glucose tolerance test outperforms two-hour test for predicting progression to diabetes
Machine learning was used to combine different variables, including clinical risk factors, plasma glucose and insulin levels, HbA1c level, and six metabolic markers, in 1,527 models for predicting progression risk.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2018/12/14/1.htm
14 Dec 2018
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