Letter From The Editor

There are a lot of theories on the internet concerning what you are doing to your body if you take a statin. Unfortunately, these stories do not have a shred of evidence to prove what the writer is saying is actually true. Unfortunately, many of our patients have more faith …

I recently went in for my yearly check-up and had my labs done before the appointment. When my doc went over the values he saw some elevated liver enzymes. He looked at my med profile and honed in on the Celebrex, and when he realized I had been on the …

It seems every year we start off our articles with the latest and greatest ways to stick to your resolutions and lose weight, improve your health, and improve your diabetes. Usually that means programs, devices or diets that are either too expensive or too hard to follow. This year, we …

Hopefully, you were able to get a little break during the past week, and are recharged for 2022. As we mentioned in our last issue, we wanted to share the most-read features of 2021. This week’s newsletter has the best of July through December. If you did not get a …

Happy Holiday from the entire staff at Diabetes in Control! As we come to the end of the year, it has been a long and hard road as we work our way through the waves of the coronavirus and the workload that these waves presented. The hardest part is the …

We are all familiar with the triad of diseases expected in diabetes patients. As soon as someone is diagnosed, we start to worry about cardiovascular and renal problems. In addition, we often swing our prescribing for these patients to the SGLT-2 inhibitors, as they have proven to be both cardio …

Our patients use Dr. Google all the time to self-diagnose and self-treat themselves. They also look for influencers on sites such as YouTube, TikTok, and Facebook. If you look at YouTube searches, the biggest visits are to weight loss videos, with a focus on keto and intermittent fasting. One caveat …

Some of the articles we provide here are based on small studies or ones that are so cutting-edge they seem to never make it to our patients. However, when you can get a Q&A session with a PhD educator who has won the prestigious American Diabetes Association Outstanding Educator in …

There is no doubt that recording your activity will cause you to try harder. Although I ride the same route with our bike club almost every day, I look to see if I set any new times for the multiple segments we have mapped out. Most cyclists use an app …

We know that there are many complications associated with diabetes, and the longer you have diabetes, the more likely these comorbidities will develop and worsen. One group of complications that often gets overlooked is respiratory dysfunctions. This week our intern Andy Dao, PharmD Candidate, University of South Florida Taneja College …