Diabetes management is becoming less "glucocentric" than it used to be, according to Dr. Helena...Mechcatie, Elizabeth
New ASH Diabetes Guidelines, Plus Data on Hypertension Prevalence, Ineffective Drugs, Harmful Drugs, and the Polypill Hypertension Awareness, Treatment, Control Rates Improving in the United States, but So Is Prevalence Leading off this month is good news from National Health and Nutrition Examination ...
“When you look at the current diabetes guidelines — and we identified eight that were very relevant to us — there is not a lot of nuance in terms of nutrition [and] physical activity,” Rosenfeld said. “Even theAmerican Diabetes Association Standards of Careis a ...
-1 delays gastric emptying, suppresses glucagon secretion, and decreases gastrointestinal motility and nutrient ingestion. GLP-1 shows numerous actions in different tissues and a broad therapeutic potential. Therefore, GLP-1 plays a very active role both in the treatment and pathogenesis of diabetes....
We sought to compare conclusions regarding adequacy of glucose and blood pressure control using current quality assessment approaches and a stratified approach based on geriatric care guidelines. This was a cross-sectional evaluation of diabetes care. We studied patients older than 65, living with ...
To reduce the risk of onset or to delay the progression of DR, individuals with diabetes should be treated to achieve optimal control of BP (eg, <130/80 mm Hg). Eyes that demonstrate clinically significant macular edema by ETDRS (Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study) criteria without cent...
In the future, Gan & Lee strives to achieve a comprehensive coverage in the field of diabetes diagnosis and treatment. Moving forward to advance our goal of becoming a world-class pharmaceutical company, we will also take an active part in developing new chemical entities, and work on the tre...
"The guidelines highlight the need to focus on people at high and very high risk as prevalence rates of diabetes increase. Even in this group there is little evidence that frequent screening is beneficial, especially for reducing mortality," added the task force, "There was no evidence to sup...
so we originally set the guidelines to try to protect people with diabetes. What's changed is that we've had other studies that have been unable to show a benefit from controlling blood pressure tighter than 130/80, so we thought it was unreasonable ...
Two new guidelines about the treatment and management of psoriasis have been released by the American Academy of Dermatology, providing physicians with new evidence-based standards of how to treat the disease through the use of biologic medications and i