Issue 381

Test Your Knowledge Issue 381

Skip is a 25-year old construction worker who has had type 1 diabetes for 15 years. He is 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 200 pounds. He takes Levemir (long-acting basal insulin)—20 units...

Know Your Numbers, Outlive Your Diabetes

Kimberly West, Doctor of Pharmacy Candidate, University of Florida College of Pharmacy recently reviewed Know Your Numbers, Outlive Your Diabetes written by Richard Jackson, MD and Amy Tenderich. To find out why she thought this would be an excellent...

Are There Any Exercise Concerns with Use of Newer Diabetic Medications?

Dr. Sheri Colberg, author of The 7 Step Diabetes Fitness Plan: Living Well and Being Fit with Diabetes, has great information on Exercise Concerns with Use of Newer Diabetic Medications. Be sure to read this and all of Dr. Colberg’s...

Screen for PAD and Treat as CAD

Screening for peripheral arterial disease (PAD) should be performed routinely in all elderly patients and younger ones with cardiovascular risk factors, and should be aggressively treated just as coronary artery disease (CAD).

Sugary Drinks, Not Fruit Juice Linked to Insulin Resistance

Consumption of sugar-sweetened drinks, not including 100 percent fruit juice, may be associated with insulin resistance, even in otherwise healthy adults

'Skinny Gene' Does Exist

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found that a single gene might control whether or not individuals tend to pile on fat, a discovery that may point to new ways to fight obesity and diabetes.

Pramlintide Used To Promote Weight Loss

Treatment with the amylin analog pramlintide has been shown to reduce weight in obese patients, according to researchers.

New Imaging Technique Reveals Fatty Hearts in Pre-diabetics

A simple imaging technique has revealed fat buildup in the hearts of pre-diabetic people long before symptoms of heart disease or diabetes appear.

Perindopril/Indapamide for All Type 2’s?

If the benefits seen in the study were applied to just half the population with diabetes worldwide, more than a million deaths would be avoided over five years.

Diabetics at Increased Risk of Hearing Loss

Diabetics have twice the risk of developing hearing loss as are nondiabetics.

The Newest Information on Alcohol Use For Diabetics

Accumulating scientific evidence indicates that light to moderate drinking done on a daily basis may significantly reduce the risks of coronary heart disease (CHD) and all-cause mortality.

Can A1c Predict Diabetes?

Among healthy middle-aged and older women, Hemoglobin A1c is an independent predictor of type 2 diabetes, but not cardiovascular disease.

Metformin and Sitagliptin Work Synergistically in Type 2 Diabetes

Forty-four percent of patients treated with metformin and sitagliptin were able to achieve A1c’s below 6.5%

Increased Risk Of Death In Patients Who Stop Using Statins After Stroke

Patients who stop taking cholesterol-lowering drugs within a year of surviving a stroke had a two-fold increased risk of death, researchers reported.

Why Obesity May Not Lead to Diabetes

One reason for this is thought to be the chronic inflammation characterized by macrophage infiltration into adipose tissue that accompanies obesity, because it has been linked to the development of insulin resistance (which in turn often leads to type...

The Final Word on TZD’s

Thiazolidinediones Receive Black Box For Heart Failure: Careful monitoring of patients advised.

Eli Lilly and Takeda End Agreement to Co-Develop Ruboxistaurin Mesylate

Ruboxistaurin mesylate is used to treat diabetic macular edema and diabetic peripheral neuropathy. The companies said that after looking at the overall results, the trials did not meet the criteria for Phase III studies and therefore they have agreed...

Acute Myocardial Infarction Leads to Diabetes

Compared with people who have not had an AMI, post-AMI patients have a significantly higher risk of developing diabetes or impaired fasting glucose and physicians should consider acute myocardial infarction (AMI) to be a prediabetes risk,authors of a...