Ancillary study conducted using ACCORD data…

According to a study, children whose mothers were severely obese before their pregnancy were at a twofold increased likelihood of developing emotional and psychosocial problems at age 6 compared with those whose mothers were of normal weight. These children were more likely to be diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and …

A high-potassium diet may help protect teens against high blood pressure later in life better than restricting sodium.The study, which included 2,185 girls ages 9 and 10 and followed them up to 10 years, found sodium intake did not affect blood pressure, but those who ate a high-potassium diet had …

According to new research, type 2 diabetes patients who quit smoking are likely to see a temporary deterioration in their glycemic control which could last up to three years. They examined the primary care records of 10,692 adult smokers with T2DM over six years to investigate whether or not quitting …

  This matchstick-sized pump — currently called the ITCA 650 (Intarcia Therapeutics; Boston, Massachusetts) — could replace pills and injections for type 2 diabetes. It’s implanted under the skin of the abdomen and releases doses of the glucagon-like peptide-1 agonist exenatide (Bydureon®, Byetta®) to help control blood glucose. It must …

  Intarcia Therapeutics was able to raise an additional $225 million to continue their development and commercialization of an implantable pump that delivers a year’s supply of exenatide. See Product of the Week.  

Beta cells are very important in the production of insulin as we all know, and when our patients are developing diabetes they actually turn up insulin production in the beta cells, so that when they are diagnosed many patients are actually making a lot of insulin. However this overproduction of …

It seems that patients often fall into two categories when they get diagnosed with diabetes. They either get serious and try to do everything to reverse their disease or they just ignore it and figure it will go away. This week our Clinical Mastery Series newsletter looks at both categories. …

Joseph Hourmard talks about the benefits of aerobic exercise versus anaerobic exercise, and notes that as patients get older, doing more resistance-type exercise will help to maintain muscle mass. However, he again points out that the best exercise is the type that patients will actually do. He also notes that …

In this week’s Homerun Slides, we begin a short 5-part series covering the latest guidelines from the ADA. Topics covered this week include the Criteria for Diabetes Diagnosis, Categories for Increased Risk in Diabetes, and Screening Children for Type 2 Diabetes and Prediabetes…. To download the complete set of slides …