Miriam E. Tucker August 03, 2021 Nearly half of adults prescribed metformin after a new diagnosis of type 2 diabetes have stopped taking it by 1 year, new data show. The findings, from a retrospective analysis of administrative data from Alberta, Canada, during 2012-2017, also show that the fall-off in metformin adherence was most dramatic during the first 30 days, and...
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Novel earwax test could improve diabetes diagnosis
Blood glucose levels are always changing – one minute they can be radically different from the other. This means that assessing chronic glucose levels is quite difficult. Now scientists from UCL and King’s College London determined that a simple earwax self-sampling device could be used to measure chronic glucose levels with 60% more reliability tha...
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Marker in tear samples could detect diabetes complication
by Sherry Landow, University of New South Wales You’ve heard of blood tests and stool samples. Tear samples might be the next screening method to enter your doctor’s office, a new study from UNSW Sydney suggests. Tear-testing may be the future of screening for diabetic peripheral neuropathy, a debilitating condition that affects people with diabetes,...