Intensive insulin-adherence interventions that target type 2 diabetes patients with high risk of noncompliance can be beneficial.
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Benefits of Testosterone Therapy in Men with Prediabetes
Can testosterone treatment benefit men at risk of developing insulin resistance?
Read More »Metformin For People Who Do Not Have Diabetes?
We asked the DIC advisory board to comment on the use of metformin in patients who do not have diabetes:
Your patients may have asked about it or, if not yet, they most likely will. What is your comment on whether you recommend metformin for people who do not have diabetes? If you do not, how do you respond to patients who ask about it? If you do, what do you tell your patients? And what do you say to your patients when their other health care providers tell them this is a diabetes drug and they should only be taking it if they have diabetes?
Here's how they responded.
Low Carb Or Low Fat Diet To Lose Weight?
Study provides some answers to ongoing debate about which diet causes most weight loss.
Read More »Using Glycemic Variability To Predict Major Cardiac Events In Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
Too many highs and lows in glucose levels could be another reason that causes cardiovascular complications.
Read More »Does Intensive Blood Pressure Control Prevent Strokes?
Maintaining a blood pressure below 130/80 mm Hg can eventually reduce the risk of having a repeat stroke, according to a recent study.
Read More »Newsflash: Hormone Levels May Predict PCOS in Premenarchal Girls
Research suggests testosterone and AMH levels could be used to predict risk for PCOS in premenarchal daughters of women with PCOS.
Read More »Calories Burned Calculator
This calculator from Verywell Fit tells your patients how many calories they are burning according to the type of exercise they are performing and the length of time.
Read More »New DIC Feature Options
Which of the following items would you be interested in seeing added to DIC?
Read More »CKD Burden in the United States
From 2002 to 2016, US deaths from chronic kidney disease (CKD) increased by how much?
A. 20%
B. 32%
C. 38%
D. 38%
E. 58%
Follow the link for the answer.
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