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When should aspirin be considered for the prevention of complications….

by Alan L. Graber, Anne W. Brown, Kathleen Wolff          Reviewed by Coleen Hart, PharmD Candidate Graber, Brown, and Wolff’s “A Life of Control: Stories of Living with Diabetes” provides the reader with unbiased, truthful, and endearing visions of how many aspects of life can be affected …

Long-Term Complications and Treatments: Dyslipidemia Steve V. Edelman, MD Robert R. Henry, MD Dyslipidemia Lipid abnormalities that accelerate atherosclerosis and increase the risk of CV disease are significantly more common in patients with type 2 diabetes than in nondiabetic individuals. In addition, central obesity associated with type 2 diabetes is …

This handout for patients gives them a simple way to test for starch and sucrose when they’re dining out, and can’t easily determine what the carb content of various foods is by looking at labels or asking restaurant personnel. Just click on this link to download the pdf: How to …

Introducing NovoPen Echo® for Kids Designed to fit children’s smaller hands with a dose button and a short travel distance making it easier for kids to use, NovoPen Echo® combines dosing in half-unit increments with a simple, easy-to-use, memory function. It has removable skins, so kids can personalize their pen. NovoPen …

Having both diseases greatly increases the chances of dying….

Portable meters used to gauge blood sugar levels in pregnant women with diabetes gave readings that differed from lab tests by up to 16%….

Consider a GLP-1 plus a long-acting insulin….

One more reason to normalize blood sugars is that diabetes and hyperglycemia are associated with increases in bleeding during hemorrhagic stroke and worse clinical outcomes….

Nearly five million Americans live with heart failure, with as many as 700,000 new cases diagnosed each year. In addition to lifestyle factors, scientists have shown that heart failure has a strong heritable component, but identifying the responsible genes has been a major challenge….