A prospective study finds an increased risk in time to first severe hypoglycemic event and subsequent hypoglycemic events in diabetic patients with depression….
Read More »New Basal Insulin Uses Less Volume to Improve Glycemic Control
Insulin degludec is a novel formulation with 200units/ml that has shown non-inferiority to Lantus in terms of efficacy and safety but requires less volume when dosing….
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Brushing and flossing should be part of everyone’s daily habits but especially for those with diabetes….
Read More »Candesartan and Pioglitazone Demonstrate Anti-inflammatory Properties
The use of the ARB, candesartan, and the oral anti-diabetic drug, pioglitazone, not only improved blood pressure and HbA1c levels, but serum levels of inflammatory proteins were reduced in type 2 diabetes patients….
Read More »Nurses Lead the Way to Improved Diabetes Control
A program led by certified diabetes nurse educators helped patients titrate insulin and improve key diabetes parameters….
Read More »Clinical Use of 1,5-Anhydroglucitol for Identifying PPH, Part 3 of 4
With this week’s Homerun Slides, we have the third slideset of a four part series which we are bringing you over the course of four months. With this week’s set, we delve a little deeper into how the 1,5-Anhydroglucitol Test works, how it compares and works with other blood …
Read More »ADA/JDRF Type 1 Diabetes Sourcebook, Excerpt #3: Adjunctive Therapies, Part 2 of 3
Anne Peters, MD, and Lori Laffel, MD, MPH, editors Jane Lee Chiang, MD, managing editor Jeremy Hodson Pettus, MD, and Steven Edelman, MD Weight Loss Weight gain is associated with intensive insulin regimens. During the first year of the DCCT, subjects assigned to intensive insulin therapy gained twice as much …
Read More »Pulse Boot: The Diabetic Boot Company
Pulse Boot: The Diabetic Boot Company The Pulse Boot is not yet available but a prototype has been developed and has been tested at Royal Free Hospital London. The Pulse Boot vision is to create the most effective therapy boot for treating diabetic foot ulcers and reduce the number of foot amputations. …
Read More »Hypoglycemia Treatment and Prevention Related to Physical Activity
By Sheri Colberg, PhD Iatrogenic hypoglycemia (i.e., blood glucose levels of
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