Prediabetes

  Rudy Bilous MD, FRCP Richard Donnelly MD, PHD, FRCP, FRACP   Impact on healthcare expenditure Diabetes is an expensive disease. About 75% of the direct costs are absorbed by the long-term complications, rather than the management of diabetes itself. In the USA in 2002, the annual economic burden of diabetes was …

R. Keith Campbell, RPh, FAADE, FASHP, FAPhA, CDE, Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Diabetes Care/Pharmacotherapy, Washington State University College of Pharmacy The health care crisis created by the explosion of diabetes worldwide is one of society’s greatest challenges. The IDF projects that the prevalence of diabetes by 2030 will be over 550 …

Corneal confocal microscopy (CCM) could be used and adopted as a surrogate marker for small-fiber neuropathy in patients with diabetes or risk of diabetes….

Rudy Bilous MD, FRCP Richard Donnelly MD, PHD, FRCP, FRACP   Diabetes mellitus is diagnosed by identifying chronic hyperglycemia. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the American Diabetes Association (ADA) have used a fasting plasma glucose (FPG) of 126mg/dL.(7 mmol/L) or higher to define diabetes (Table 3.1 ). This originated from epidemiological …

A novel hydrogel capsule helps decrease weight in prediabetic patients…. 

Findings suggest clinicians can prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes "over a very long period of time"….

Treatment of prediabetes and prevention of type 2 diabetes reduces cardiovascular risk…. 

Eating pistachio nuts and almonds could help protect against developing type 2 diabetes in individuals who are already at high risk…. 

Women with diabetes were at 40% to 50% greater risk for developing and dying from coronary heart disease than diabetic men, and sex disparities in pharmacotherapy didn’t appear to explain the excess risk…. 

Call for guidelines for prediabetes from the Clinical Endocrinologists meeting….