"Apple-shaped persons — even if totally healthy and with a normal blood pressure — have an elevated blood pressure in their kidneys."…
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Nearly 10% of patients with adult-onset diabetes were found to have diabetes-associated autoantibodies….
Read More »Diabetic Emergencies, Diabetic Ketoacidosis in Adults, Part 3
Clinical Management Treatment consists of rehydration with intravenous fluids, the administration of insulin, and replacement of electrolytes.
Read More »AACE: Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults often Misdiagnosed
Almost half of nonobese adult with poorly controlled diabetes have latent autoimmune diabetes that has been misdiagnosed as type 2 diabetes….
Read More »ADA’s Diabetes Ready Reference for Nurse Practitioners, Excerpt #1
Management of Glycemia During Hospitalization and Surgery Do you have three minutes to improve your patients’ care? In this week’s Clinical Text excerpt, we begin a new series with The Diabetes Ready Reference for Nurse Practitioners. Please take a few minutes to check out our first selection which provides …
Read More »Shift Work with Less Sleep Sets Stage for Diabetes
Short sleep on a disrupted schedule — common in shift work — significantly increases blood sugar, setting the stage for obesity and diabetes….
Read More »Insulin Therapy May Help Reduce Cardiovascular Disease
Diabetes patients are more susceptible to the development of atherosclerosis than non-diabetics and insulin therapy might help repair atherosclerotic lesions in diabetic patients….
Read More »Psychology in Diabetes Care, 2nd Ed., Part 11
Edited by Frank J. Snoek and T. Chas Skinner Diabetes in Adolescents 2.3 Individual Interventions (Part 1 of 2) Despite the benefits of these family-based programs, they pose a challenge for working with older adolescents if their parents do not come to clinic or for young people in families …
Read More »The Safety and Extrapancreatic effects of GLP-1 on cardiovascular tissue, adipose tissue, liver, and kidney
GLP-1 receptors are widely expressed in CV, adipose, hepatic, and renal tissue. High-affinity GLP-1 receptors are present in autonomic nuclei that control CV functions, and have been isolated in rodent and human cardiomyocytes, endothelial cells, and vascular smooth muscle cells….
Read More »Weight-Loss Surgery and the New Addiction, Part 2 of 2
By Tricia Greaves, President of The Nelson Center For Part 1, please click here. In order to break the cycle of addiction, regardless of the “drug of choice,” it is essential that a person address the underlying causes of their addiction. Obviously, a person isn’t born morbidly obese. He or …
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