Peter Katzmarzyk, PhD, FACSM, FAHA, gives us a brief introduction to himself and explains that the current focus of his research is on what happens with the human body when it’s not exercising which is most of the rest of the day…. More videos with Dr. Katzmarzyk: Peter Katzmarzyk, PhD, …

In this week’s Homerun Slides, we review the properties of insulin glargine including U-300 glargine vs U-100 glargine. With the advent of Toujeo on the market, you may want to review these slides….

David Levy, MD, FRCP Introduction: Type 2 Diabetes as a Progressive Condition Glycemia in type 2 diabetes progressively deteriorates with time, usually thought to be related to progressive beta-cell failure. This was demonstrated dramatically in the United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS 1998), but the glycemic trends have been less marked …

Years ago I was attending an annual AADE meeting in Washington, DC. It was a hot summer day in August and while running between meetings, I got overheated. One of my fellow attendees, a nurse educator who was also a friend and past president of AADE, put a cool wet …

Exposure to low socioeconomic status appears to increase the risk for death in patients diagnosed with type 1 diabetes during childhood who died after age 18 years… This should add more incentive to make the social worker part of the diabetes team. The researchers wrote, “The current study indicates that …

This might be a reason not to use a DPP-4 for those with long standing diabetes… Reduction in the glucose-regulating hormone glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) appears to occur before the development of type 2 diabetes and obesity, according to new published research. Investigator Kristine Færch, PhD, senior research fellow at the …

By closely examining currently used diagnostic criteria, researchers evaluated whether it might be possible to diagnose type 1 earlier…. Today, diagnostic criteria for type 1 diabetes includes a glucose value ≥ 126 mg/dL and 2-h glucose values ≥ 200 mg/dL. These glucose values were selected because they correspond with observed …

Mice treated with DPP-4 inhibitors also showed an increase in production of their own glucagon… Siri Malmgren, a researcher at Lund University, stated that, “If these inhibitors also prove effective in humans against low blood sugar, then this supports the idea that the area of application of these drugs could …

Dental visits may allow for diabetes screening and monitoring glucose control in at-risk patients… A new study suggests that using gingival crevicular blood, collected during dental visits, for HbA1c testing produced values that were nearly identical to those obtained using finger stick blood. Correlation was 0.991 between the HbA1c values …

It may be possible to predict the development of type 1 diabetes in young children by measuring the presence of autoantibodies in the blood… This comes from new data from The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY) study. Lead researcher Åke Lernmark, MD, PhD, of Lund University, said …