The CARDIA study explored the link to the decline in cognitive abilities in diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's in middle-aged populations.
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Cardiovascular events and diabetes go hand in hand, but what if there’s already a drug out there to lower the risk of those events?
Read More »Daily Pill Optimizes Insulin Use and Reduces A1c For Type 1 Diabetes
An oral medication that does not increase risk of low blood sugar could provide an alternative to insulin.
Read More »The Impact of SGLT2 Inhibitors on All-Cause Mortality
Examining the evidence to date on whether sodium-glucose transporter 2 inhibitors reduce mortality.
Read More »Improving Medication Adherence in Primary Care
Pharmacist-led medication therapy management (MTM) has been shown to improve medication adherence.
Read More »Beware: Weight Loss Not Just Due to Patient’s Healthier Habits
A patient, 62 years of age, with type 2 diabetes, obesity, and an intellectual disability disorder, had been a patient at our clinic for over ten years. Treatment included metformin and insulin. He met regularly with his endocrinologist and diabetes educator. He often spoke about wanting to lose weight....
Read More »The Link Between Diabetes and COVID-19 Deaths
Study assigned a point system to chronic risk factors that can affect COVID-19 cases, including diabetes, obesity, and cardiometabolic disease.
Read More »Children with Type 1 Diabetes and the Artificial Pancreas
Less than 20% of children with type 1 diabetes attain the target glycated hemoglobin level of less than 7% recommended by the American Diabetes Association.
Read More »What You Eat and Drink Affects Your Exercise Performance
by Sheri Colberg, PhD
How well you perform (physically) when you exercise is impacted in a number of ways by the intake of macronutrients—that is, carbohydrate, fat, and protein—whether you have diabetes or not. Performance is directly affected by your calorie intake both during an activity and when you are recovering from it.
Determining the Accuracy of Diabetes Tests
A meta-analysis on the accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity of the index tests for early detection in type 2 diabetes.
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