Conditions

Battle between two GLP-1 receptor agonists proves semaglutide achieves favorable HbA1c levels, decreased mean body weight.

Patients who skipped initial treatment with metformin and were instead started on second-line antihyperglycemic medication more likely to need dual therapy or insulin to control T2.

Patients projected to have increase in body mass index also likely to develop increased plasma glucose levels and have diminished insulin response.

Young man, 21 years of age. type 1 diabetes since 9 years of age. Has not been to see hcp for a year. States he doesn’t like people interrogating him, but came in because he needs his insulin. States he doesn’t check his glucose because he can tell what it is. Tired of having type 1 diabetes and tired of checking numbers. A1C in office--10.2%.

Part 1 of a four part series on a framework developed by Dr. Bradley Eilerman and Len Testa for recommending medications for treating patients with type 2 diabetes.

A thousand times today, in offices all over America, hospital patients will be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. When that happens, a healthcare provider has to make a treatment decision of enormous complexity, often with partial information to go on, and in the span of just a few minutes.

The answer comes from a mediation analysis of the EMPA-REG OUTCOME Trial.

Young patients with low BMIs, C-peptide levels, and significant symptoms at onset of diabetes at higher risk of undergoing rapid C-peptide decline.

Patients are not seeing the expected results because of medication adherence.

Getting type 2 diabetes at an early age increases risk for all diabetes complications, including death.

How best to decide whether to use one or a combination of the new treatments and individualize the treatment for your patients.