Addition to insulin therapy helped reduce hemoglobin A1c levels, researchers reported.

With fewer side effects, much less expensive drugs still found to be effective.

Children with diabetes are often sidelined during team sports and planned exercise.

Updated blood pressure control numbers may have cardiovascular benefits for some patients.

Can most of your patients with diabetes or prediabetes tell you what their A1c number is? Follow the link to share your response.

A 42-year-old patient was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes approximately one year ago and is currently taking metformin, a DPP-4 inhibitor, and a basal insulin dose (current daily dose .9 U/kg/day). Despite good compliance with her diet, exercise, and medication regimen, she reports postprandial glucose measurements of usually about 190 mg/dL. Her current A1C is 7.6%. Which of the following changes in her management do you consider most important? A. Add a sulfonylurea to her regimen B. Increase her basal insulin dose C. Add a pre-meal rapid-acting insulin D. Discontinue her basal insulin dose and add a prandial insulin dose Follow the link to see the answer.

We write about diabetes disasters every week. We write of how we have prevented some and share with you, our readers, how you too can prevent disasters. This week, we ask you to help us PREVENT DIABETES DISASTERS BIG TIME by giving to the many people who have diabetes and have been affected by the current weather disasters.

In this week's Homerun Slides, the significance of albuminuria.

Lipoprotein metabolism in normal individuals and in type 2 diabetes mellitus: Triglyceride levels in blood are regulated by the size and number of VLDL secreted from the liver and the efficiency with which triglycerides are cleared from the plasma by lipoprotein lipases. In T2DM, greater numbers of larger, more triglyceride-enriched VLDL are secreted from the liver and lipoprotein lipase activity may be modestly reduced; both lead to increased levels of triglyceride in the blood. HDL cholesterol levels are reduced for several reasons, including increased transfer of that cholesterol to very low- and low-density lipoprotein, in exchange for their triglyceride, by cholesterol ester transfer protein. LDL particles lose some of their cholesterol to VLDL via the same exchange mechanism, which generate smaller, denser, LDL.

Recent published study showed that health care providers may lack the knowledge to diagnose and even treat prediabetes.