Men showed slightly greater hip-bone loss at four years than did those in the diabetes support and education cohort. However, researchers did not observe a similar trend in women with diabetes. The trial randomized 1,309 overweight and obese individuals with type 2 diabetes to an intensive lifestyle intervention (ILI) versus …
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Obese Patients Have Lower CV Mortality after CV Procedures than Lower BMI Patients
After revascularization procedures, the risk for total mortality, cardiovascular mortality and myocardial infarction is highest among patients with low BMI, according to research. Similarly, CV mortality was lowest among overweight patients in the meta-analysis conducted by Abhishek Sharma, MD, of the Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, N.Y., and colleagues, who looked …
Read More »New Combination of Diabetes Drugs Have Synergistic Effect
Metformin and SGLT2 inhibitors together reduce the blood sugar levels of diabetics more effectively than either drug alone….
Read More »SGLT2 Inhibitor Empagliflozin Wins FDA OK
The glucose-reducing drug empagliflozin (Jardiance) won approval today from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) after Boehringer Ingelheim corrected manufacturing problems that caused the agency to say "no" in March….
Read More »New Encapsulated Beta-Cell Replacement Therapy for Type 1 Diabetes
Beta cell encapsulation therapy is a procedure that involves implantation of cells with the ability to secrete insulin in a glucose-responsive manner in a protective barrier into the body…. On July 17th 2014, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) announced that their partner, ViaCyte, Inc. filed an Investigational New Drug …
Read More »Acarbose Treatment and the Reduction of CVD Risk in Type 2 Diabetes Patients
Previous studies have shown that decreasing postprandial hyperglycemia with acarbose could reduce the risk of CV events but a new study shows that risk may increase for the first 12 months of exposure….
Read More »Gender Differences in Control of Multiple CVD Risk Factors in Type 2 Diabetes Patients
Adjusted mean DBP levels found to be significantly higher in women compared to men but other risk factors were almost the same between genders….
Read More »Hypoglycemia Awareness improves with Self-Monitoring in Type 1 Diabetes
The best outcomes were achieved by multiple daily injections with self-monitoring of blood glucose….
Read More »Safe and Effective Closed Loop Insulin Delivery for Type 1’s Decreases Hypo’s
A new delivery system has been evaluated and found to be safe and effective for young adults to use at home without any supervision needed….
Read More »Metformin Treatment Provides Better Lipid Control
Better overall lipid effects were seen in type 2 diabetes patients with coronary artery disease treated with metformin than those being treated with glipizide….
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