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.

Do you have a program in place to improve medication compliance? Follow the link to see how you and your colleagues compare.

What proportion of Americans age 45 years and older have self-reported memory problems -- is it 1 in 30, 1 in 16, 1 in 9, or 1 in 4? Follow the link for the answer.

Health care professionals who are endocrinologists, cardiologists or who work in these specialized fields know the complications of prediabetes or diabetes. Many of us have these patients. Sometimes it’s almost natural to talk with these patients differently than we’d talk with most of our patients who aren’t as well-educated. A woman, 59 years of age with prediabetes and strong history of cardiovascular disease complained of a slight chest pain not associated with exertion or shortness of breath, just an ongoing discomfort. Other than this, the patient — who is herself a health care provider —  is feeling fine.

In this week's Homerun Slides, we begin a review of the new Eversense CGM system.

The diabetic spectrum: Diabetes is a group of metabolic diseases characterized by hyperglycemia resulting from defects in insulin secretion, insulin action, or both. The chronic hyperglycemia of diabetes is associated with long-term damage, dysfunction, and failure of different organs, especially the eyes, kidneys, nerves, heart, and blood vessels.

Even as 2nd-line drugs, sulfonylureas shown to be cardiotoxic with high rate of low blood glucose

Patients who have normoglycemia still at risk for glucose spikes and diabetes.

Study investigates preservation or improvement of B-cell function using metformin with or without short-term insulin.