Blood Glucose Control

Sucralose, the artificial sweetener of Splenda®, was found to have an effect on the absorption of glucose and subsequent insulin secretion in non-diabetic, obese individuals…. M. Yanina Pepino, PhD, and colleagues out of Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, began looking at non-nutritive sweeteners such as Splenda® (sucralose) and …

Intensive insulin therapy leads to increased risk of hypoglycemia in ICU patients without any added benefit….

Quality of Life Test, Updated  Ninety percent of type 2 patients do not know what their A1c results mean: do your patients know? We are repeating this tool both because we have had many requests and because it has proven to be such an effective tool for motivating patients to better …

I saw an obese long-term person with Type 2 diabetes who was experiencing widely fluctuating BGs and had had two hospitalizations within the previous six months, one for a BG of 28mg dl and one for an infested hair follicle (BG 413 mg/dl in ER)….