Do you consider ethnicity when determining the best treatment options for your patients? Follow the link to see how you and your colleagues compare.
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GliControl Diabetes
GliControl allows you to keep a daily log for diabetes. View a list of glucose records/carbohydrates/insulin, insulin assistant, analysis. reports. medications with alerts, and much more.
Read More »CGM Review of Clinical Outcomes Studies Part 5
In this week's Homerun Slides, the conclusion of comparing Flash CGM with Dexcom rtCGM.
Read More »International Textbook of Diabetes Mellitus, 4th Ed., Excerpt #153: Monogenic Disorders of the Beta Cell Part 3
Glucokinase MODY: Glucokinase catalyzes the phosphorylation of glucose to glucose-6-phosphate. Its unique kinetic properties result in the rate of glucose phosphorylation being proportional to the physiologic glucose concentration. This means that the beta cell and hepatocyte can respond appropriately to fluctuations in the degree of glycemia. In the pancreatic beta cell, glucokinase acts as “the glucose sensor” ensuring insulin release is appropriate to the blood glucose concentration.
Read More »Preserving Beta-cell Function in Youth Newly Diagnosed with Type 2 or Prediabetes
The beta-cell preserving properties of short courses of metformin and insulin glargine evaluated in ever-growing population of patients who have diabetes.
Read More »New First-In-Class Drug For People with Type 1 Diabetes
Study assesses effect of new add-on therapy.
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Can canagliflozin affect the progression of kidney disease in patients with type 2 diabetes?
Read More »Gut Flora Composition and Abundance Differs in Diabetes
The intestinal microbiota in people with type 1 and those with MODY2 differs in abundance and type compared to people without.
Read More »Poor Glycemic Control Increases Infection Risk
Infection risk is high among people with diabetes, but can better glycemic management improve lower infection risk?
Read More »Vitamin D Deficiency and Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy
Patients with either painful or painless neuropathy found to have low vitamin D levels.
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