New guidelines for diabetes types 1 and 2: endocrinologists offer updated recommendations to increase glycemic control and avoid complications. Here is a quick summary.(FEATURE)Mitzner, Lyle
it is 1% across the board in the general population. If you test patients presenting with dyspepsia for celiac disease, the prevalence is 1%. So dyspepsia is not a discriminator for diagnostic testing. In patients with type 1 diabetes, the prevalence of celiac disease is considerably...
For adults younger than 60 years, medication should be started when systolic blood pressure is 140 mm Hg or higher or diastolic blood pressure is 90 mm Hg or higher. For adults with chronic kidney disease or diabetes, no matter what age, blood pressure medication should be started when systol...
NEW ORLEANS — New guidelines from the Endocrine Society address the numerous complex issues involved in managing the growing population of older adults with diabetes. The document, Treatment of Diabetes in Older Adults: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline, was presented March 23 here at...
Dr. Drucker said that understanding how GLP-1 dampens inflammation may open new avenues for reducing the complications associated with type 2 diabetes and obesity. He added that the recognition of GLP-1 biology as the Science Magazine 2023 breakthrough of the year "highlights the expanding clinica...
Students of diabetes have noted that the so-called vascular complications of the disease appear with little or no consistency. Uncontrolled patients may have no vascular problems. Contrarywise obsessive compulsive individuals who follow every dietary regimen perfectly and take their prescriptions faithfully...
Data underscore the adverse effects of glucose and insulin on potassium levels and the high incidence of cardiovascular and renal complications in patients with diabetes mellitus. These factors are specific to patients with type 2 diabetes who have poorly controlled serum glucose levels. Patients With ...
Diabetes mellitus, angiographic catheter caliber, type of contrast administered, contrast volume, and grams of iodine received were not associated with complications in the training and testing sets but are logical risk factors for arteriographic complications 11, 12 and were therefore included in the...
recommendation for use of HbA1cto diagnose diabetes, lifestyle management including physical activity and nutrition, weight management,aspirinuse, glucose control, blood-pressure management,lipid management, screening for renal and CVD complications, and a list of controversial areas requiring further ...
BERLIN — New consensus guidelines on patient-centered management of type 2 diabetes have now been published for clinicians in Europe and the United States. The final version of the document, "Management of Hyperglycaemia in Type 2 Diabetes, 2018. A Consensus Report by the American Diabetes ...