Age-related hearing loss is more common in people with diabetes than those who don’t have it.…
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CVD Risk Begins as Early as Adolescence for Girls with Type 1
Women with type 1 diabetes are at four times greater risk for CVD than those who don’t have diabetes, and pre-menopausal women with diabetes do not seem to have the beneficial effects on heart disease risk factors that other pre-menopausal women do….
Read More »Fatty Liver and Diabetic Kidney Disease: Caused by the Same Mechanisms?
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has been linked to an increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease.…
Read More »Continuous Glucose Monitoring an Option for Infants, Toddlers
Can continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) be used on infants and toddlers? Should it be?…
Read More »Adapting the Diabetes Prevention Program for Native American Youth
This study (299-OR) explored ways to modify the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) lifestyle change program to make it culturally and age appropriate for Native American youth.…
Read More »Heart Risk Higher in Those Taking Sulfonylurea Drugs vs. Metformin
This retrospective study looking at data from an electronic health record database found that older patients with type 2 diabetes who started treatment with sulfonylurea (SU) drugs were significantly more likely to experience CVD than those who started with metformin….
Read More »Letter from the Editor: ADA Preview
Airfares are at an astronomical level this year, hotels in San Diego cost more to stay in than the national debt of most major countries, and we know that many of you can’t get away for 4 or 5 days anyway to attend the 71st Scientific Sessions of the American …
Read More »GLP-1 Knowledge Survey Part I
Thanks to the great number of you who participated. As we put together the original survey our first thoughts were to find out what you wanted to know about GLP-1 analogs and what your impressions of the class of drugs are…. We asked you “what were the most important things …
Read More »GLP-1 Issue #3 Editor’s Note
This week we have the results from our GLP-1 Survey. Thanks to the great number of you who participated, and congratulations to Dr. Donald W., of Southern Pines, North Carolina, the winner of our Kindle/Nook giveaway. As we put together the original survey, our first thoughts were to find out …
Read More »Editor’s Note: Hot Summer Weather and Insulin Stability
Over the past month there have been record high temperatures all over the US. Cities that were at minus 45° Fahrenheit with wind chill in February were at 104° just two weeks ago, and summer just started today. All this heat can have a very negative effect on insulin stability …
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