Metformin displayed a lowest risk for dementia across diverse antidiabetics, while α-glucosidase inhibitors had the highest risk.
Few with type 2 diabetes receive guideline-recommended CKD screening
Jul 01, 2024
24.9 percent received creatinine and UACR screening; Hispanic ethnicity associated with lack of screening
Timing of metformin important in metformin-treated type 2 diabetes
Jun 21, 2024
Glucose lowering is greater when metformin is given before rather than with enteral glucose; this is also linked to greater GLP-1 response.
Endocrine Society, June 1-4
Jun 20, 2024
The conference highlighted recent advances in the diagnosis and management of obesity, endocrine disorders, diabetes, and growth hormone and thyroid diseases.
Vitamin D suggested for children, seniors, those with high-risk prediabetes
Jun 10, 2024
No evidence was seen to support routine 25(OH)D screening in the general population.
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Semaglutide cuts risk for kidney outcomes, death in CKD with T2DM
May 31, 2024
A reduction was seen in risk for clinically important kidney outcomes and death from cardiovascular causes.
Men face more diabetes complications than women
May 17, 2024
The findings were independent of diabetes duration over a 10-year period.
CDC: Diabetes management could help prevent hospitalizations, emergency department visits, deaths
Jul 23, 2017
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Life expectancy decreasing, CDC says
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Lois A. Bowers
Aug 15, 2018
Life expectancy in the United States decreased in both 2015 and 2016, marking the only decreases in the past 20 years and the first consecutive two-year decline since 1964, according to a new report from...