Risk for dying from heart attack, stroke twofold higher among those with high BP, diabetes and short sleep
Read More »Yearly Archives: 2019
Risk Tool Can Predict Heart Failure in Patients With Diabetes
AI model integrates readily available clinical, laboratory, and electrocardiographic data
Read More »Oct. 1, 2019
Our diabetes patients offer suffer from depression and we will blame it on the disease, when there is actually a clinical reason for their depression. This association of diabetes and depression is sometimes so great that patients don’t get the proper treatment for depression; over time this makes their diabetes …
Read More »Depression + Diabetes = Increased Risk for Cardiovascular Outcomes
Patients who have diabetes should be screened for psychological risk factors.
Read More »Nutritional Approach in Management of Diabetes or Prediabetes
How effective is medical nutrition therapy in improving diabetes and prediabetes outcomes?
Read More »Improving Glycemic Control in T1DM Can Decrease Risk of Fracture
Having diabetes increases patients’ risk for fracture six-fold in T1DM and three-fold in T2DM.
Read More »Syringe Type Mystery
My colleague and I were working with a client new to insulin. We each saw him separately. He was taking Lantus and Humalog by syringe at meals. He had been taught how to use the syringe by his physician's office staff. He was claiming much different numbers than expected for his mealtime doses.
Read More »FDA: Pacemakers, Insulin Pumps Could Be Hacking Targets
Cyberattackers could take control of a medical device and cause it not to work properly or at all
Read More »September 2019 Briefing – Diabetes & Endocrinology
Here are what the editors at HealthDay consider to be the most important developments in Diabetes & Endocrinology for September 2019. This roundup includes the latest research news from journal articles, as well as the FDA approvals and regulatory changes that are the most likely to affect clinical practice.Panel Votes …
Read More »Glycemic Control Worse Than Thought in Adults With T1DM
Rates of both acute and chronic complications significantly increase with increasing HbA1c
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