Tag Archives: Diabetes complications

Early hyperglycemia may influence cancer risk after type 2 diabetes diagnosis. See what a large cohort study found about early glycemic exposure.

Diabetes complications are often discussed in terms of the heart, kidneys, eyes, and nerves. However, diabetes can also affect joints and connective tissue. Adhesive capsulitis, or frozen shoulder, is one diabetes-related complication that deserves more attention. It can begin with ordinary shoulder pain and gradually make simple movements surprisingly difficult. …

For people with painful diabetic neuropathy (PDN), treatment has traditionally focused on controlling burning, stabbing, and shooting pain. However, emerging research on spinal cord stimulation for diabetic neuropathy raises a more intriguing question: Could neuromodulation also improve sensation? Results from the SENZA-PDN clinical trial suggest that some patients receiving high-frequency …

Could a routine blood sample someday reveal cardiovascular danger that cholesterol, blood pressure, and HbA1c do not fully capture? New research suggests that epigenetic cardiovascular risk prediction could offer a new way to identify people with type 2 diabetes who face a higher short-term risk of major cardiovascular events. Instead …

Three decades of advances in diabetes care have transformed how people with type 1 diabetes manage glucose. Insulin pumps, continuous glucose monitoring (CGM), improved insulin analogs, automated insulin delivery, and earlier screening have all changed daily treatment. However, have these advances actually reduced the long-term complications of type 1 diabetes? …

Charcot foot in diabetes can begin with a warning sign that seems almost contradictory: a foot that is hot, red, and swollen but causes surprisingly little pain. For people with diabetic peripheral neuropathy, reduced sensation may hide the severity of the problem. As a result, patients may continue walking on …

Finding the right diabetic neuropathy pain treatment can be challenging when a well-chosen first medication provides only partial relief. Burning, shooting pain, tingling, and allodynia can continue to disrupt sleep, mobility, mood, and daily function. Fortunately, clinicians do not always have to choose between abandoning a partially effective drug and …

Does being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 6 carry the same long-term risks as being diagnosed at 16? Researchers have been asking that question for years. Increasingly, evidence suggests that age at type 1 diabetes onset may help explain differences in complication patterns later in life. However, age …

People with type 2 diabetes can face substantial cardiovascular risk even when clinicians address familiar risk factors such as LDL cholesterol, blood pressure, smoking, and blood glucose. Could another blood marker help reveal some of the risk that remains? Emerging research on the suPAR biomarker in diabetes suggests it may …

Euglycemic diabetic ketoacidosis can challenge one of the most familiar clinical shortcuts in diabetes care: DKA should come with markedly elevated glucose. In patients taking sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors, however, dangerous ketoacidosis may develop while glucose remains normal or only modestly elevated. As a result, euglycemic DKA in patients …