July 20, 2021 : Issue #1151

DISASTERS AVERTED — Near Miss Case Studies

Know the Side Effects of the Drugs You Prescribe

TOP STORIES — Diabetes News and Research

ADA 2021: Genetic Risk Score for Type 2 Diabetes and Traits Related to Glucose 

ADA 2021: Are Patients with Obesity or Diabetes at Increased Risk for Severe COVID-19?

Developing a T1D Prediction Model

MOST POPULAR ARTICLES OF THE MONTH

#1 Low-Calorie Mediterranean Diet vs. Low Carb Diet for Weight Loss

#2 Benefits for Patients with Type 1 Diabetes Using the New Omnipod® 5

#3 Type 1 Diabetes and New Innovations

Torré Anderson, II, PharmD candidate from FAMU College of Pharmacy, was reviewing information from the recent ADA Scientific Sessions and found something that caught his eye. He, like most of us, had always assumed that type 2 diabetes was a disease of older folks. He had heard that, even if the patient was unlucky enough to have a genetic history of diabetes in the family, if they got diabetes it would be much later in life

Then he reviewed the information from Maggie A. Stanislawski and team, and this changed his thinking 100%. To see what changed Torré’s thought process, click here for our Laterpay feature.

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Dave Joffe

Editor-in-chief

Male, 72 years of age, type 2, insulin-requiring diabetes, also taking SGLT-2. Annual physical. No urinary complaints during the visit. Received annual lab work end of the workday, glucose elevated much higher than the reports. WBC elevated, 1200, no urine culture, but U/A did show cloudy….

Genetic risk scores can help provide insight into the problem of increasing youth-onset type 2 diabetes rates.

Analysis finds that for every increase of a BMI unit, there was a 5-15% excess risk of developing severe COVID-19. 

Study finds type 1 diabetes may account for 8% of diabetes cases in young adults.