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DISASTERS AVERTED — Near Miss Case Studies
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Editor's Note
Many times our patients survive their diabetes by finding substitutions for foods they just can’t live without. They will find breads made of cauliflower, candies made from nuts and syrups that replace sugar with non-caloric artificial sweeteners. Just a quick look at YouTube will show thousands of these tricks. However the biggest trick of all is when a manufacturer changes the look of a product that patients are familiar with.
Check out this week’s Disaster Averted to see what happens when marketing changes a label.
Dave Joffe
Editor-in-chief
Newsflash: FDA Approval for Dexcom’s G6 Pro
The FDA has approved Dexcom’s G6 Pro Continuous Glucose Monitoring System for healthcare professionals to use with their patients aged two years and older. The G6 Pro is the first and only single-use, professional CGM that gathers real-time glucose data over ten days and offers both a blinded and unblinded mode.
DISASTERS AVERTED — Near Miss Case Studies
One of my long term patients called my office because she could not figure out what was happening with her post breakfast glucose readings. She counted carbs and would typically have a 2 hour ppg of no more than 145 mg/dl but even though her pre-breakfast readings were around 110 mg/dl she was experiencing glucose levels near 200 mg/dl. I had her do a morning food diary for 7 days and we identified 3 days when she was eating French toast when her readings were going over 200 mg/dl. This meal had never been a problem in the past.
TOP STORIES — Diabetes News and Research
A recent study found important effects on dementia in African American patients with type 2 diabetes
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Increased sugar in body tissues leads to more rapid growth of bacteria.
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