Clinic provides diabetes and endocrinology care for patients after transplants
(SACRAMENTO) Did you know diabetes is a common complication following a kidney transplant?
UC Davis Health has established a new transplant endocrinology clinic to improve care of diabetes and other endocrinology disorders for kidney transplant patients. Read more from UC Davis Health News.
Compared with boys, girls with type 1 diabetes have worse HbA1c, higher BMI and more diabetic ketoacidosis and require higher insulin doses, according to a systematic review published in Diabetologia.
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Maintaining a healthy lifestyle — before or after type 2 diabetes diagnosis — was associated with significantly lower risk for microvascular complications for people with the disease, according to study data.
Results were published in JAMA Network Open. Read the full story in Healio.
The first oral SGLT2 inhibitor approved by the FDA for treating diabetes in cats opens in a new tab or window is now approved for humans with the disease, drugmaker TheracosBios announced.
As an adjunct to diet and exercise, the oral treatment is indicated for adults with type 2 diabetes, and is not recommended for those with type 1 diabetes or for patients in diabetic ketoacidosis, according to the company. Read the full story in Medpage Today.
Children with type 1 diabetes missed nine more school days, on average, per year than children without the disease, according to new research published in Diabetes Care.
“Children living with diabetes and managing the condition achieve the same grades at age 16 as their peers without diabetes — and are equally as likely to progress to higher education,”Robert French, PhD, senior research fellow in the division of infection and immunity in the Diabetes Research Group at the School of Medicine at Cardiff University, U.K., said in a related press release. “This is quite remarkable, given that they miss more school sessions than those without the condition.”
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Researchers hypothesize that the number of youths in the U.S. with diabetes is likely to substantially increase in future decades, highlighting the need for diabetes prevention, according to estimates published in Diabetes Care.
“In particular, the risk of type 2 diabetes seems worrying because compared with youths and young adults with type 1 diabetes, those with type 2 diabetes have a worse cardiovascular risk profile and increased risk of complications and mortality,” Thaddäus Tönnies, MD, an epidemiologist at the Institute for Biometrics and Epidemiology at the German Diabetes Center in Düsseldorf, Germany, and colleagues wrote.
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Having spent over 30 years of my career in diabetes, first as a practicing diabetologist and later as a diabetes researcher, I’ve met many people with diabetes. And while diabetes care has evolved significantly over that time, I’m amazed that for many people, daily insulin management remains just as complex and manual as it was all those years ago, particularly for individuals with type 2 diabetes (T2D). Read more in MedPage Today.
The Endocrine Society released updated clinical practice guidelines that account for new technology and newer forms of insulin and glucagon in the management of diabetes-related hypoglycemia.
These recommendations, published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, are updates from the Endocrine Society’s 2009 inpatient hypoglycemia guideline. Read more in Healio.
Women who adhered more to a plant-based Portfolio diet lowered their risk for developing type 2 diabetes, according to findings from the Women’s Health Initiative published in Diabetes Care.
“There are two main takeaways from this study,” Andrea Glenn, PhD, RD, a postdoctoral research fellow in the department of nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and in the department of nutritional sciences at the University of Toronto, told Healio. Read the full story in Healio.
Habitual coffee drinking may lower type 2 diabetes risk for women with a history of gestational diabetes, according to experts.
Previous research has examined connections between gestational diabetes and type 2 diabetes risk and, separately, shown that moderate coffee consumption can lower mortality risk. Read more in Healio.