Researchers at the ADA reported that Liraglutide reverses prediabetes indices in most obese patients with existing prediabetes …Full Story
Read More »Snoring Pregnant Women at Higher Risk for Gestational Diabetes
If you are pregnant and your mate complains your frequent snoring is rattling the bedroom windows, you may have bigger problems than an annoyed, sleep-deprived partner
Read More »AACE: New Recommendations for Treatment of Prediabetes
New recommendations include: specific instructions for lifestyle intervention, and that pharmacotherapy be started at an A1c of six percent. It is estimated that there will be 418 million people worldwide with prediabetes by 2025.
Read More »Diabetic Medications and Exercise, Part 1: Oral Medications
Sheri Colberg, Ph.D., FACSM, has been helping patients with diabetes successfully increase physical activity for many years and has written numerous books that patients and clinicians use. Most of her work recently has been about insulin and exercise, but many of you have written me to ask, “What about oral …
Read More »Treating Prediabetes with Metformin: A Systematic Review Meta-Analysis
Metformin decreases the rate of conversion from prediabetes to diabetes…
Read More »Low Blood Sugar Increases Older Diabetics’ Dementia Risk
Older adults with Type 2 diabetes who experience an episode of hypoglycemia serious enough to require a trip to the emergency department or admission to the hospital are at increased risk of developing dementia, new research suggests.
Read More »Type 2 Diabetes Linked to Alzheimer’s Disease
In a new report, researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found a gene that may be involved in the link between Type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease. Previous research has found that healthy elderly people with Type 2 diabetes are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease, but …
Read More »Periodontal Disease Can Lead To Gestational Diabetes
A new study has uncovered evidence that pregnant women with periodontal (gum) disease face an increased risk of developing gestational diabetes even if they
Read More »Cholesterol, Diabetes Linked to Faster Decline in Alzheimer’s Disease
Among patients with incident Alzheimer’s disease, total and LDL cholesterol concentrations before diagnosis and a history of diabetes are associated with faster cognitive decline. Specifically, each 10-mg/dL increase in total cholesterol or LDL-C concentration was associated with an additional …
Read More »Can Tight Glucose Control Increase Mortality in Critically Ill Patients?
The study showed that “intensively lowering blood glucose to a target of 81 to 108 mg/dL does not benefit critically ill patients and may well increase their risk of…
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