Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, and Happy New Year! I was cleaning out some old diabetes slide presentations from 2007-2010 from my computer and I happened to open a few of them to make sure I wasn’t missing any good slides before I deleted them. There were two that were patient-focused …

  Too much circulating sugar and fat can cause the endothelial lining to become inflamed…. Dr. Eric Belin de Chantemele, physiologist at the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University, stated that, “When the endothelial lining of our blood vessels becomes inflamed and unable to dilate properly, it drives …

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

A new set of "guiding principles" for the care of people with diabetes and those who are at risk for it has been issued from the NDEP with the endorsement from several medical societies… 

Better "bridge" care for patients transitioning from pediatric to adult health care is needed, say researchers, as the findings show a higher mortality rate especially among young women….  

by Dr. Sheri Colberg, Ph.D., FACSM “Are Some Individuals Programmed to Fail?” asked a recent review by Stephens and Sparks published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism in November 20141. The authors claimed that up to 20 percent of people with type 2 diabetes (T2D) are non-responders, that …

30 to 40 minutes of daily activity shown to improve patients’ quality of life….

More studies needed to determine effect on adverse clinical outcomes…. Kitty Kit Ting Cheung and colleagues from the Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong examined the implications of testosterone levels on cardiovascular CV risk factors, metabolic syndrome, and adverse clinical outcomes. The researchers …

Cohorts included nearly 200,000 American medical professionals…. Mu Chen, a doctoral candidate at the Harvard School of Public Health, said in a press release, “Our study benefited from having such a large sample size, high rates of follow-up and repeated assessment of dietary and lifestyle factors.” Chen and colleagues evaluated …

Higher A1C target recommended for patients over 65 with comorbidities… A team of Canadian and American researchers have analyzed data from the ACCORD trial to investigate whether the intensive lowering of glucose concentrations affects the risk of ischemic heart disease in patients with type 2 diabetes. The researchers assessed 10,251 …