Type 2 Diabetes

People may self-educate and seek support in others with similar diseases and disorders. This may be constructive (e.g., learning grounding techniques to help with anxiety) or harmful (e.g., pro-anorexia pages).

Overt clinical hypothyroidism increases placental abruption, gestational diabetes, premature membrane rupture, preterm birth, low birth weight, and perinatal mortality risk.

There is significant competition among companies developing treatments for diabetes. In spite of that, the common goal for all treatments is to help the growing number of patients developing the condition to better control their symptoms and overall health.

As the diabetes epidemic continues there are always new treatments being developed. For doctors treating the condition there are many questions to be answered including which therapies work best for their individual patients

Dr. Bobby Lazzara reviews the safety of a hybrid closed-loop insulin delivery system for patients with type 1 diabetes in a real-world setting.

Have you ever treated a patient diagnosed with type 2 diabetes who doesn’t fit the usual body habitus?

Investigators studied mice that had been engineered so that the insulin signaling pathways in their livers were always fully activated. According to the dominant understanding of glucose production, this should have made it impossible for those mice to produce glucose in their livers.

On a daily basis endocrinologists are treating a wide variety of conditions that require their own specifics of care. Because of that there is an increased need for not only more specialists in the field, but also for general practitioners to provide care for more controlled patients.

Our October list of news and research includes FDA approval of a new weight loss device, a comparison of canagliflozin & glimepiride, and more.

There are claims, ranging from anecdotal reports to experimental research, that cannabis and its derivative compounds have medicinal use for diabetes.

Speaking at the American Academy of Ophthalmology 2016 Meeting in Chicago, K. V. Chalam, MD, expressed the advantage of using non-invasive OCT angiography (OCT-A) as opposed to the older fluorescein angiography as essentially a difference between imaging in three dimensions or two.

Is it time to add bariatric/metabolic surgery to diabetes treatment guidelines? What criteria should be used to select candidates for surgery?

Can metformin’s cardioprotective effect also benefit patients with type 1 diabetes? Dr. Bobby Lazzara discusses a small study of 23 patients.

Researchers are now developing a new way to administer insulin orally with tiny vesicles that can deliver the medicine where it needs to go.

Are your patients on insulin achieving their HbA1c targets? It’s estimated that about half of patients with type 2 diabetes meet their glycemic goals.

Did adding an SGLT2 inhibitor improve glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes? A recent meta-analysis explores this question.

The study began with patients receiving saxagliptin plus metformin. Then, patients with glycemic control were randomized to placebo or dapagliflozin.

Some have called Medtronics MiniMed 670G an "artificial pancreas." The device is not that. It still requires user intervention. That said, it requires less intervention than any of the devices that have come before it.

Three studies show the potential of an artificial pancreas & a less invasive glucose testing device and a 2-drug combo to improve glycemic measures.

Does bariatric surgery result in long-term maintenance of weight loss? Dr. Bobby Lazzara discusses a cohort study with 10-year and 4-year follow-up.

An analysis of data in the Nurses' Health Study found that women who exercised regularly were just as likely as peers who did not to get multiple sclerosis. Exercise is still helpful in managing symptoms.

Skin autofluorescence may be a new, noninvasive technique to assess risk of cardiovascular and renal impairment in type 1 diabetes.

A new study examined the cost of increasingly prevalent non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in both the United States and Europe and places the bill in the hundreds of billions.

Researchers analyzed renin and markers of inflammation and fibrous components from plaques of patients who had undergone carotid endarterectomy.

One year after beginning Lucentis treatment for diabetic macular edema, the group who had a decrease in visual acuity also had the greatest decrease in HbA1c level.

What impact, if any, do fasting triglycerides have on cardiovascular and diabetes risk in patients with prediabetes?

Recent trials involving promising medications to treat patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction have not produced significant reductions in mortality.

The FDA approved a fixed-dose combination of canagliflozin and metformin hydrochloride extended release (Invokamet RX/Janssen).

Not all patients fit neatly into type 1 or type 2 diabetes. Our blogger shares clinical tips for identifying & treating ketosis-prone type 2 diabetes.

A prospective study from Spain of over 3600 patients with type 2 diabetes tested the theory that fatty acids protect against diabetic retinopathy.