Devices

Dr. Aaron Vinik talks about how medical devices that gauge the physical condition of patients can be used to motivate those patients to better lifestyle management. Having more data available such as A1c levels, blood pressure, and other numbers, as well as being fully aware of what the data means …

Recently, a patient of mine called about her post-meal glucose levels which were increasing.

Rudy Bilous, MD, FRCP Richard Donnelly, MD, PHD, FRCP, FRACP Disordered gastrointestinal motor function occurs in both type 1 and type 2 diabetes and can result in symptoms of nausea, vomiting, diarrhea or constipation, malnutrition, poor glycemic control and delayed absorption of orally administered drugs (Figure 23.1). Gustatory sweating, typically affecting the …

Two configurations of an artificial pancreas were recently compared to conventional diabetes treatments in a world-first clinical trial…

Dr. Aaron Vinik discusses a very simple and quick device that can effectively detect neuropathy but also comments that it’s success is tied in to many other factors….

Rudy Bilous, MD, FRCP Richard Donnelly, MD, PHD, FRCP, FRACP Symptoms of sexual dysfunction affect both men and women with diabetes. The most common problem among men is erectile dysfunction (ED), which is defined as ‘the inability to achieve or maintain an erection sufficient for sexual intercourse’. ED occurs 10–15 years earlier …

Rudy Bilous, MD, FRCP Richard Donnelly, MD, PHD, FRCP, FRACP The high-risk diabetic foot The lifetime risk of a person with diabetes developing foot ulceration is around 25%. Recent studies suggest that the population-based incidence of diabetic foot ulcers is 1-4% with a prevalence of 4-10%. The risk of amputation is 10–30-fold …

Rudy Bilous, MD, FRCP Richard Donnelly, MD, PHD, FRCP, FRACP Atherosclerosis For any given age, level of cholesterol or BP, the risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD) is 3 to 5-fold higher among patients with diabetes compared with subjects without diabetes. Macrovascular complications include fatal and non-fatal coronary heart disease (CHD) events, …

Rudy Bilous, MD, FRCP Richard Donnelly, MD, PHD, FRCP, FRACP Diabetes and hypertension have been termed the ‘bad companions’ for cardiovascular disease risk. Diabetes alone increases this risk 2 – 4-fold; in the presence of hypertension, the risk for coronary heart disease is further trebled and for stroke, doubled. There is also …

Ambio Remote Health Monitoring System  The Ambio Remote Health Monitoring System, which has FDA 510(k) clearance, wirelessly sends readings from devices such as a weight scale and blood pressure and blood glucose meters to the web-based Ambio Care Portal where the readings can be viewed by patients and their authorized …