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Recent articles address federal diabetes programs, type 1 diabetes care
The National Clinical Care Commission made 39 recommendations for improving federal diabetes programs, and the latest In the Clinic article offered advice on diagnosing and treating type 1 diabetes.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2022/03/11/6.htm
11 Mar 2022
High-sensitivity C-reactive protein level predicted mortality risk in recent-onset type 2 diabetes
While high-sensitivity C-reactive protein was a good predictor of mortality, C-peptide levels were more closely associated with cardiovascular events, and having high levels of both was associated with increased risk of either outcome, a prospective study in Denmark found.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2023/04/14/1.htm
14 Apr 2023
Obesity increasing in type 1 diabetes, associated with higher risk for chronic kidney disease
Obesity in type 1 diabetes rose from 2004 to 2018, and patients with type 1 had a higher adjusted prevalence of low estimated glomerular filtration rate and albuminuria than those with type 2, an analysis of one health system found.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2022/02/11/3.htm
11 Feb 2022
Severe insulin-resistant diabetes associated with better metabolic surgery outcomes
Patients with severe insulin-resistant diabetes had better outcomes after metabolic surgery than those with mild obesity-related diabetes or severe insulin-deficient diabetes, both in terms of type 2 diabetes remission and renal function, with no additional surgical risk.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2022/03/11/3.htm
11 Mar 2022
Nearly one-third of patients were nonadherent to newly prescribed SGLT-2 inhibitors, GLP-1 receptor agonists
Factors associated with not filling a new prescription for a sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitor or a glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist included older age, Black race, male sex, certain comorbid conditions, and having a primary care clinician prescribe the drug, a study found.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2022/02/11/2.htm
11 Feb 2022
Diabetes incidence projected to increase among youth in U.S.
A modeling study using data from 2002-2017 found that incidence of type 1 and type 2 diabetes could increase in those under age 20 years by up to 65% and 673%, respectively, over the next three decades, although confidence intervals were wide.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2023/01/13/1.htm
13 Jan 2023
Metformin use during pregnancy not associated with adverse outcomes in children
A industry-conducted cohort study in Finland found that childhood obesity, hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia, diabetes, and challenges in motor-social development did not appear to be associated with in utero exposure to metformin or metformin and insulin versus insulin alone.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2022/01/14/3.htm
14 Jan 2022
Association of inflammation with mortality in COVID-19 didn't differ by diabetes status
A single-center, case-control study of patients who were hospitalized with COVID-19 found a link between elevated levels of IL-6, IL-8, and interferon-γ-induced protein 10 and mortality risk, regardless of whether patients had type 2 diabetes.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2022/01/14/2.htm
14 Jan 2022
No long-term disruption of glycemic control seen after COVID-19, study finds
The authors of a small Italian study of hospitalized COVID-19 patients speculated that reversible transient factors, such as inflammation-induced insulin resistance, may cause the hyperglycemia that occurs in some patients with and without diabetes during infection.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2021/11/12/2.htm
12 Nov 2021
Self-monitoring of blood glucose reduced HbA1c in noninsulin-treated patients
Self-monitoring of blood glucose 8 to 11 times a week was more effective than doing so more or less frequently, according to a new meta-analysis.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2022/12/09/1.htm
9 Dec 2022