Search results for "Keeping tabs"
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 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
Spotlight on GLP-1 receptor agonists and the lungs
The theory that glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists may have beneficial effects on the lungs gained support from recent analyses of patients with asthma, chronic lower respiratory diseases, and all types of respiratory diseases.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2021/05/14/5.htm
14 May 2021
Spotlight on COVID-19 and diabetes medications
Several recent studies have found evidence that outcomes from COVID-19 differ by the diabetes medications patients were taking before they got sick, including metformin being associated with better outcomes, but confounding by indication is likely, researchers noted.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2021/04/09/5.htm
9 Apr 2021
Spotlight on lipid treatment
Control of cholesterol levels among patients with type 2 diabetes commonly falls short of recommendations, according to two recent studies of contemporary practice in other countries.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2021/03/12/5.htm
12 Mar 2021
Spotlight on pregnancy in women with diabetes
Recent studies looked at aspects of pregnancy in women with pre-existing type 1 or 2 diabetes, including rates of adverse outcomes, useful biomarkers, and typical dietary patterns.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2021/02/12/5.htm
12 Feb 2021
Spotlight on COVID-19 and diabetes
Recent articles looked at the risks of COVID-19 in patients with diabetes, optimal hospital treatment for those with both conditions, and new-onset diabetes in patients with COVID-19.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2021/01/08/5.htm
8 Jan 2021
Spotlight on heart failure and diabetes
A new study validated a score for predicting risk of heart failure in patients with type 2 diabetes, while another looked at historical trends in heart failure hospitalizations in U.S. diabetes patients.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2020/12/11/5.htm
11 Dec 2020