MODY/LADA

"Apple-shaped persons — even if totally healthy and with a normal blood pressure — have an elevated blood pressure in their kidneys."…

Nearly 10% of patients with adult-onset diabetes were found to have diabetes-associated autoantibodies….

Clinical Management Treatment consists of rehydration with intravenous fluids, the administration of insulin, and replacement of electrolytes.

Almost half of nonobese adult with poorly controlled diabetes have latent autoimmune diabetes that has been misdiagnosed as type 2 diabetes….

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 …

Short sleep on a disrupted schedule — common in shift work — significantly increases blood sugar, setting the stage for obesity and diabetes….

Diabetes patients are more susceptible to the development of atherosclerosis than non-diabetics and insulin therapy might help repair atherosclerotic lesions in diabetic patients….

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 …

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….

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 …