Miriam E. Tucker December 13, 2022 New more aggressive targets for blood pressure and lipids are among the changes to the annual American Diabetes Association (ADA) Standards of Care in Diabetes — 2023. The document, long considered the gold standard for care of the more than 100 million Americans living with diabetes and prediabetes, was published December 12 as a supplement in Diabetes...
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Drinking coffee regularly after pregnancy may lower type 2 diabetes risk for women who had diabetes during pregnancy
by National University of Singapore Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The prevalence of type 2 diabetes is projected to continue rising and one in three Singaporeans currently has a risk of developing diabetes in their lifetime. Several early-life cardiometabolic complications make identifying high-risk populations and application of diabetes preventive strategies paramount. Among the high-risk groups are...
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CGM Compression Lows: Diabetes Questions and Answers
BY GARY SCHEINER, MS, CDCES | NOVEMBER 29, 2022 Q: I’ve used a CGM (continuous glucose monitor) for many years. It is usually reliable, but sometimes — especially during the night — it shows a sudden sharp glucose decline out of the blue. Why does this happen? A: Yeah, I’ve seen those myself. The trend graph is doing just...
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New guideline examines better ways to manage hypoglycemia in people with diabetes
by The Endocrine Society Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain People with diabetes are benefiting from advances in medications and technologies to lower their risk of hypoglycemia, according to a Clinical Practice Guideline issued today by the Endocrine Society. The guideline, titled “Management of Individuals with Diabetes at High Risk for Hypoglycemia: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice...
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Dapagliflozin reduces risk for hospitalization in patients with CKD with or without diabetes
by American College of Physicians Credit: Anne Lowe/public domain Dapagliflozin, a sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitor, reduced the risk for hospitalization for any cause in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) with and without type 2 diabetes. The findings suggest that dapagliflozin should be considered in such patients. The study is published in Annals of Internal Medicine....
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How to Lower A1C Levels Naturally
BY AMY CAMPBELL, MS, RD, LDN, CDCES. Image Source: Diabetes Self-Management Call it what you will: hemoglobin A1C, glycosylated hemoglobin, HbA1c or just “A1C,” these numbers, known as A1C levels, play a huge role in how your diabetes is managed. It’s also used to diagnose diabetes, as well as prediabetes. Your A1C is a blood test that provides information about...
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Study: Which people with chronic pancreatitis will develop diabetes?
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER A new study by Cedars-Sinai investigators describes risk factors that could make it more likely for people who have chronic pancreatitis, an ongoing inflammation of the pancreas, to develop diabetes. The findings are published in Diabetes Care. Some of these risk factors include smoking and being overweight. “What we’re hoping to do with this...
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Injections for diabetes, cancer could become unnecessary
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – RIVERSIDE IMAGE: PET SCAN IMAGES SHOW ORALLY ADMINISTERED EPP6 ACCUMULATED IN THE INTESTINES AND MADE ITS WAY INTO THE BRAIN AND BLADDER THROUGH BLOOD CIRCULATION. CREDIT: MIN XUE/UCR Researchers at UC Riverside are paving the way for diabetes and cancer patients to forget needles and injections, and instead take pills to...
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New onset chronic kidney disease in people with diabetes highest among ethnic, racial minorities
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – LOS ANGELES HEALTH SCIENCES New onset chronic kidney disease (CKD) in people with diabetes is highest among racial and ethnic minority groups compared with white persons, a UCLA-Providence study finds. The study, published as a letter to the editor in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that new onset CKD rates...
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Research unlocks the circuitry of diabetes
by Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute A pancreatic islet from a mouse in a typical position, close to a blood vessel; insulin in red, nuclei in blue. Credit: Generated in the Solimena lab, Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden Research led by Pamela-Itkin-Ansari, Ph.D., and Randal Kaufman Ph.D., has mapped out a network of biochemical interactions...