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In one of the first studies of the impact of publicly reporting quality measures on outpatient care, a research team found that clinics made improvements in diabetes care when they began publicly reporting how they were treating patients with diabetes.…

A study of more than 80,000 women found that low to moderate alcohol consumption was associated with a 17% to 21% reduction in risk of stroke.…

In the longest controlled clinical trial of exenatide compared with daily insulin glargine, investigators found better glycemic control and sustained weight loss for up to 84 weeks with once weekly exenatide (EQW).…

Elderly people with the metabolic syndrome defined as having multiple risk factors associated with developing diabetes and heart disease, had an increased risk of CKD….

The ACP has issued a clinical practice guideline regarding use of oral agents in type 2 diabetes entitled, “Oral Pharmacologic Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Clinical Practice Guideline From the American College of Physicians.”… This is important because despite new therapies, there hasn’t been a guideline from either …

The risk of ischemic stroke increased by 3% for each additional year a patient had diabetes.…

The FDA said last week that all statins must carry warnings about increased risks of elevated blood sugar and possible transient memory and cognition problems, but at the same time the agency removed a standing recommendation for routine liver function tests for patients taking the cholesterol-lowering drugs.…

Significantly fewer children are born to couples when one partner has type 1 diabetes….

Impaired glycemia (IG) is not a risk factor for typical or atypical diabetic polyneuropathy, according to the findings of a population-matched prospective study.…

A novel investigational drug called TAK-875 (Takeda), the first in its class to be tested in diabetes, provides glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes with less risk for hypoglycemia compared with standard treatment.…