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Managing Editor, Diabetes in Control

Why CGM?

Blood glucose monitors – a breakthrough that followed urine tests and lasted over 50 years – may soon go into the museums, showing how patients with diabetes used to check their blood sugars.  

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Preventing Potential Drug Interaction with a Drug With UNIQUE Directions 

We were following up with a person with type 2 diabetes who was recently started on the new oral formulation of the GLP-1 receptor agonists semaglutide (Rybelsus®). This patient had a 12-year history of type 2 diabetes as well as several comorbidities that included hypertension, hyperlipidemia, obesity (BMI = 33 kg/m2), knee osteoarthritis, and hypothyroidism. The patient was previously resistant to initiating a GLP-1 receptor agonist due to his hesitancy toward self-injection. He agreed at his last primary care visit to start a trial of oral semaglutide to improve his glucose control and lose some weight....

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