Prediabetes

Adult offspring of mothers who had GDM or type 1 diabetes during pregnancy showed lower levels of fasting GLP-1 and weakened glucagon suppression… Louise Kepstrup, MD, of Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark, and colleagues in the follow-up study, evaluated data on adult children (aged 18-27 years) from all pregnancies complicated …

Outcomes in A1c versus 2-hour OGTT performance using CGM in obese youths… Recent studies in adolescents comparing A1c to 2-hour glucose and fasting plasma glucose (FPG) have reported poor agreement among the three tests in classifying youth with dysglycemia. Other studies show that A1c has been reported to have a …

  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Medical Association (AMA) have created a toolkit that health care teams can use as a guide to Screen, Test and Act Today (STAT) by referring patients to in-person or online diabetes prevention programs. You can download a complete …

AACE leads charge for legislative changes focused on treating diabetes, prediabetes and associated illnesses… An estimated 29.1 million Americans (almost 10% of the total population) have diabetes, another 86 million citizens aged 20 or older suffer from prediabetes, and spending on diagnosed diabetes has increased 41% over five years. Further, …

This might be a reason not to use a DPP-4 for those with long standing diabetes… Reduction in the glucose-regulating hormone glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) appears to occur before the development of type 2 diabetes and obesity, according to new published research. Investigator Kristine Færch, PhD, senior research fellow at the …

Dental visits may allow for diabetes screening and monitoring glucose control in at-risk patients… A new study suggests that using gingival crevicular blood, collected during dental visits, for HbA1c testing produced values that were nearly identical to those obtained using finger stick blood. Correlation was 0.991 between the HbA1c values …

In this longitudinal population-based study, 1609 patients were followed between 2002 and 2014 (mean, 10.9 years) to determine whether prediabetes affected risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) or diabetes mellitus (DM)… No association was found between prediabetes and the development of cardiovascular disease using models that were adjusted for several factors …

Corneal confocal microscopy (CCM) can predict incipient peripheral neuropathy in patients with type 1 diabetes… The technique involves the examination of unmyelinated nerve fibers at high magnification using a laser-scanning corneal confocal microscope to image the subbasal nerve plexus of the patient’s cornea. Increased severity of diabetic peripheral neuropathy is …

We were running a clinical study on erectile dysfunction. An obese 68-year-old male came in looking for help for his ED, so he thought he might qualify for the study. He had not had a medical workup for some time and wasn’t aware of any underlying diseases. I recommended he …

For every 0.56 mmol/L increase in fasting blood glucose there was a 14% increase in the rate of pancreatic cancer… In previous studies, an assumption has been made that diabetes may be either a risk factor or a symptom of pancreatic cancer. To investigate this connection, researchers examined both linear …