For your patients who use CGM software, do you review the reports generated by the CGM software? Follow the link to see how you compare to your colleagues.

Real-time continuous glucose monitoring (rtCGM) facilitates our understanding of the relationship between:

A. Food and blood glucose (BG)
B. Exercise and BG
C. Stress and BG
D. Variation in BG during menstrual cycle
E. All of the above

Follow the link for the answer.

In this week's Homerun Slides, explaining how the Eversense CGM System works.

Heritability of T2DM: It has long been clear that T2DM clusters in families and it is well established that the risk of developing T2DM depends on both genetic and environmental factors. However, the exact proportion of the two, that is, the heritability, is difficult to determine and heritability estimates therefore vary in the range of 25–80% between studies. Twin-studies have estimated the genetic component by comparing disease concordance in dizygotic twins with concordance in monozygotic twins. In these studies probandwise concordance rates (number of affected twins having a diabetic co-twin) for monozygotic twins vary between 34 and 100%.

Herbal therapies and acupuncture among the most common alternative therapies used by patients with diabetes.

Sitagliptin showed greater glycemic efficacy over dapagliflozin when added onto existing therapy.

The SUSTAIN trials showed significant reductions in weight, but the true reason for the weight loss still unknown.

Recent studies show one-quarter of the population over the age of 75 who have type 2 diabetes are tightly managed with medications and are high risk for hypoglycemia.

SGLT shown as useful adjunctive agent when insulin monotherapy fails, but decrease in insulin use may prove harmful.

Scientists find dramatic weight loss may reverse type 2 diabetes in some patients.