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With this week’s Homerun Slides, we begin a new series focused on the treatment of type 1 diabetes. We start with a brief overview of the pathophysiology of type 1 diabetes and then delve into some of th challenges of tight insulin control including hypoglycemia…. To download the complete set …

A potential new pre-clinical marker to determine a patient’s risk for diabetes… Seven previous studies totaling nearly 100,000 patients found a positive association between those with a rapid heart rate and an increased risk of diabetes as compared to individuals with slow heart rates. Researchers found this same association in …

Advanced technologies and treatments should be implemented to improve metabolic control and outcomes in type 1 diabetic patients… An analysis to assess current diabetes treatments performed by T1D Exchange researchers shows a need for improvement in outcomes across all age groups, most notably adolescents and young adults. More than 16,000 …

Eating smaller meals is a way to lose weight, but skipping meals altogether has been linked to increased abdominal fat… “This does support the notion that small meals throughout the day can be helpful for weight loss, though that may not be practical for many people,” said Martha Belury, professor …

Study finds greater metabolic changes during pregnany with male fetus… Previous studies have found an association between the sex of the fetus and gestational diabetes, however this is the largest study showing this link. This population-based retrospective cohort studied the entire maternal population of Ontario with close to 643,000 women …

Canagliflozin appears to offer significant benefits when used in conjunction with insulin therapy.

The patient, a woman, 52 years of age, has type 2 diabetes and is on metformin, a GLP-1 agonist, and a long-acting insulin. Over the past few months, I’ve received calls and emails from her every now and then to let me know her glucose levels were rising, but whenever …

Score proposed to help facilitate diagnosis among population that infrequently sees primary physicians… As a part of campaigns to alleviate the health and financial burdens of undiagnosed diabetes, and because many Americans regularly visit their dentists, but not medical doctors, diabetes screening in dental offices has emerged as a promising …

Components of metabolic syndrome associated with peripheral neuropathy in prediabetic patients…

Diesease progression possible with presence of two or more autoantibodies… Autoimmune type 2 diabetes is preceded by the appearance of islet insulin autoantibodies: GAD autoantibodies (GADAs), insulinoma-associated protein 2 autoantibodies (IA-2AS), and zinc transporter 8 autoantibodies. Previous studies show that diabetes will develop within 10 years in 27-40% of children with …