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Inpatient management by a diabetes team associated with improved readmissions, reduced cost
The retrospective study at a single tertiary care referral medical center compared cost-effectiveness of care from a specialized diabetes team with care from a primary service team.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2018/04/13/3.htm
13 Apr 2018
Hypoglycemia reduced with continuous glucose monitoring in small trial of ICU patients
Adults who were expected to have an ICU stay of at least three days and who had persistent hyperglycemia for up to six hours after admission, were receiving insulin, or both had a peripheral venous catheter placed and connected to a continuous glucose monitoring sensor.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2018/05/11/2.htm
11 May 2018
Diabetes treatment in the elderly has improved, but complex regimens still common, study finds
Between 2007 and 2014, more Medicare beneficiaries were newly prescribed metformin, dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors, and sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors, while fewer received long-acting sulfonylureas or thiazolidinediones.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2018/03/09/3.htm
9 Mar 2018
Systolic BP variability associated with increased risk of death, CV events in patients with type 2 diabetes, meta-analysis finds
While current guidelines use only the absolute value of blood pressure (BP) to stratify a patient's cardiovascular (CV) risk, the results suggest that variability in systolic BP may also contribute to risk stratification in this high-risk population, the authors concluded.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2019/07/12/1.htm
12 Jul 2019
Metformin associated with B-vitamin deficiency, cognitive dysfunction in older patients
This observational study suggests that metformin use in hyperglycemic older patients is associated with vitamin B12 and B6 (pyridoxine) deficiency and poorer cognitive performance.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2019/04/05/1.htm
5 Apr 2019
Overtreatment and hospital visits for hypoglycemia common among diabetes patients
More than one in five patients with well-controlled diabetes were receiving more medications than recommended, many of them elderly or with multiple comorbidities, a recent study found.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2019/09/13/1.htm
13 Sep 2019
Intensive BP control reduced long-term CV risk, new ACCORD follow-up finds
After four years of follow-up, patients who had received intensive treatment during the trial had similar systolic blood pressure (BP) to those who had been on standard treatment but lower rates of cardiovascular (CV) events.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2018/03/09/2.htm
9 Mar 2018
Beta-blockers associated with mortality risk in patients with diabetes, study finds
Patients with diabetes who were taking any beta-blocker, a beta-1 selective beta-blocker, or a specific beta-blocker had significantly higher risk for all-cause mortality versus patients with diabetes who were not taking a beta-blocker.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2018/04/13/2.htm
13 Apr 2018
Individualized nutrition therapy recommended for diabetes, prediabetes
Adults with diabetes should be referred to individualized, diabetes-focused medical nutrition therapy, while overweight or obese adults with prediabetes should be referred to an intensive lifestyle intervention program and/or medical nutritional therapy, according to the consensus report from the American Diabetes Association.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2019/05/10/1.htm
10 May 2019
Metformin associated with fewer cardiovascular events than sulfonylureas after decline in kidney function
The findings from this retrospective study further support metformin as the first-line treatment to which other diabetes medications are added, even in patients who are in the early stages of chronic kidney disease, an editorial noted.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2019/10/11/1.htm
11 Oct 2019