Resources

Review looks at the benefits of bariatric surgery in obese and overweight patients with type 2 diabetes, as well as obese patients without diabetes…. 

Only 32% of hypoglycemic events were detected by parents or caregivers, despite glucose being self-monitored 10 times per day…. 

Are antibiotics or conservative surgery better for treating diabetic foot osteomyelitis?… 

Reducing the intake of advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs), especially in older patients, may help to slow down diabetes and Alzheimer’s epidemics….

Quality issues in the manufacturing plant prevents final approval…. The investigational type 2 diabetes drug empagliflozin won’t win the FDA’s approval until “previously observed deficiencies” at a manufacturing plant are fixed, the drug’s sponsors said last week. Eli Lilly and Boehringer Ingelheim said the FDA had issued a complete response …

But for those over 65, a higher protein intake may be beneficial….

Gene that makes a zinc transporter could be a new drug target….

Depression is up to twice as high among diabetes patients as in the general population…. 

Even if their weight is under control, adults who were obese as children may be at higher risk for cardiac events and early death….

  In this week’s Homerun Slides, we continue our exploration of the current obesity crisis with a discussion of prediabetes, the conditions which can lead to prediabetes including genetic disposition, and the possibility of preventing the onset of diabetes by acting quickly….