Conditions

A BMI of more than 25 kg/m seems to be a protective factor for renal function deterioration in some patients…. 

Rudy Bilous, MD, FRCP Richard Donnelly, MD, PHD, FRCP, FRACP   Epidemiological studies of diabetes prevalence are often based upon age and self-reported diagnosis. Consequently differentiating type 1 and type 2 patients in population studies is difficult. The most recent authoritative review of global prevalence published by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) …

Beta cell encapsulation therapy is a procedure that involves implantation of cells with the ability to secrete insulin in a glucose-responsive manner in a protective barrier into the body…. On July 17th 2014, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) announced that their partner, ViaCyte, Inc. filed an Investigational New Drug …

Previous studies have shown that decreasing postprandial hyperglycemia with acarbose could reduce the risk of CV events but a new study shows that risk may increase for the first 12 months of exposure…. 

Adjusted mean DBP levels found to be significantly higher in women compared to men but other risk factors were almost the same between genders….

The best outcomes were achieved by multiple daily injections with self-monitoring of blood glucose…. 

A new delivery system has been evaluated and found to be safe and effective for young adults to use at home without any supervision needed….

A peptide called caerulein converted existing cells in the pancreas into insulin-generating beta cells….

  Rudy Bilous MD, FRCP Richard Donnelly MD, PHD, FRCP, FRACP   The most common cause of type 1 diabetes (over 90% of cases) is T cell-mediated autoimmune destruction of the islet beta cells leading to a failure of insulin production. The exact aetiology is complex and still imperfectly understood. However, it …

  In this week’s Homerun Slides, we begin a series which Dr. Stanley Schwartz presented at the 2014 ADA Scientific Sessions, where he outlined some of the problems with the current diabetes classification system. This first section discusses the definition of LADA and shows how diabetes diagnosis characteristics frequently overlap….