Can continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) be used on infants and toddlers? Should it be?…
Read More »Yearly Archives: 2011
Adapting the Diabetes Prevention Program for Native American Youth
This study (299-OR) explored ways to modify the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) lifestyle change program to make it culturally and age appropriate for Native American youth.…
Read More »Heart Risk Higher in Those Taking Sulfonylurea Drugs vs. Metformin
This retrospective study looking at data from an electronic health record database found that older patients with type 2 diabetes who started treatment with sulfonylurea (SU) drugs were significantly more likely to experience CVD than those who started with metformin….
Read More »Letter from the Editor: ADA Preview
Airfares are at an astronomical level this year, hotels in San Diego cost more to stay in than the national debt of most major countries, and we know that many of you can’t get away for 4 or 5 days anyway to attend the 71st Scientific Sessions of the American …
Read More »GLP-1 Knowledge Survey Part I
Thanks to the great number of you who participated. As we put together the original survey our first thoughts were to find out what you wanted to know about GLP-1 analogs and what your impressions of the class of drugs are…. We asked you “what were the most important things …
Read More »GLP-1 Issue #3 Editor’s Note
This week we have the results from our GLP-1 Survey. Thanks to the great number of you who participated, and congratulations to Dr. Donald W., of Southern Pines, North Carolina, the winner of our Kindle/Nook giveaway. As we put together the original survey, our first thoughts were to find out …
Read More »Interview with Aaron I. Vinik, MD, PhD, FCP, MACP
One of the leading diabetes researchers in the world, Dr. Aaron I. Vinik leads the EVMS Strelitz Diabetes Center’s quest to cure diabetes. Internationally renowned for his research in the areas of hormone secreting tumors and the chronic complications of diabetes, Dr. Vinik has presented his work all over the world…. …
Read More »Editor’s Note: Hot Summer Weather and Insulin Stability
Over the past month there have been record high temperatures all over the US. Cities that were at minus 45° Fahrenheit with wind chill in February were at 104° just two weeks ago, and summer just started today. All this heat can have a very negative effect on insulin stability …
Read More »Diagnosis and Management of Diabetic Eye Disease, Part 2 of 7
This week we continue our special series on Diabetic Eye Disease with the second set of slides from Paul Chous….
Read More »Managing Clinical Problems in Diabetes, Case Study #9: Mrs. MS
Edited by Trisha Dunning AM, RN, MEd, PhD, CDE, FRCNA and Glenn Ward MBBS, BSc, DPhil (Oxon), FRACP, FRCPath Mrs. MS was referred by a diabetes educator in a rural area to a metropolitan diabetes educator. Mrs. MS is 45 and has not had any medical assessment for 18 months. She is …
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