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Women with gestational diabetes experienced a number of benefits when taking supplemental calcium plus vitamin D…. 

According to pilot studies, exposure to complex dietary proteins early in life may increase the risk of beta cell autoimmunity in children who are at risk for type 1 diabetes…. 

One in 5 kids with diabetes has an A1C above 10%…. 

Consuming healthier foods improves risk independently of other lifestyle changes such as weight loss or physical activity…. 

Diabetic patients who received bariatric surgery saw greater weight loss and fewer macrovascular and microvascular complications than those treated with usual care…. 

HNF1A is also the gene responsible for (maturity onset diabetes of the young type 3 (MODY3), a rare monogenic cause of diabetes….

The technosphere insulin inhalation powder (TI) is a non-invasive insulin inhalant that is used to help decrease blood glucose following meals in both type 1 and 2 diabetes patients….

Richard S. Beaser, MD This week’s excerpt covers the following topics: What drugs restore incretin function How to titrate GLP-1 agonists Learn the contraindications and precautions for the DPP-IV inhibitors The typical doses for the different DPP-IV’s….

Dr. Tamara Hannon reviews the current standards of care and recommended medications for treating type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents. She discusses the value of the TODAY study and how we need many more studies like this to improve care for this important and increasing group of type 2 …

Dr. Tamara Hannon talks about the increasing prevalence of type 2 in children and adolescents but reiterates that it is still less common to see type 2 than type 1 diabetes in this age group. She comments that in 2002, when she began her practice, that she saw just a …