Weight loss accompanying liraglutide therapy may be related to increased levels of natriuretic peptides…. 

A threshold level of 25-hydroxyvitamin D may exist with potential benefits on glycemic control…. 

Pregnant women who were advised to take bed rest of more than seven days had six-fold increased odds of developing gestational diabetes…. 

Researchers reported that women diagnosed with gestational diabetes prior to 24 weeks gestation were more likely to deliver a preterm baby compared with women diagnosed after 24 weeks…. 

A new study revealed young type 1 diabetes patients exhibited abnormal plasma glucagon responses to mixed meal tolerance tests within two years of diagnosis, according to researchers from the Diabetes Research in Children Network…. 

New information on gender specific responses may help with more patient-specific prescribing…. 

Most clinicians focus on fasting glucose levels to prevent the complications of diabetes. What if there was a generic diabetes medication available that would lower ppg and cardiovascular risk and had almost no chance of causing hypoglycemia? If you want to find out what that medication is then check out …

  In this week’s Homerun Slides series, we discuss the possibility of delaying the onset of type 2 diabetes as well as revisit DeFronzo’s octet, and look at how treating the octet without hypoglycemia and weight gain can be done….

Richard S. Beaser, MD This week’s excerpt covers the following topics: Which medications reduce insulin resistance The action of biguanides How thiazolidinediones work The risks of thiazolidinediones Liver toxicity with medications

Guest Editorial We are always glad to hear from our readers and recently we received this response from Alan S. Kaplan, M.D., to our March 4th Diabetes Clinical Mastery Series, Issue #178, in which we included two presentations focusing on prediabetes. We thought it was well worth sharing Dr. Kaplan’s perspective. …