Tag: diabetes mellitus
Maternal Chronic Conditions Predict Cerebral Palsy in Offspring
Several maternal chronic conditions increase the risk of giving birth to a child with cerebral palsy, based on data from more than 1.3 million Norwegian...
Hepatotoxicity Risk Differs Between Psoriasis, PsA, and RA Patients
Patients taking methotrexate for psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis (PsA) were at a higher risk of developing liver disease than were patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA)...
Contrary to Popular Belief, Insulin Can Be Stored Outside Fridge
Insulin may be more heat-stable during 28 days of use than current labeling suggests, a new study indicates. Instructions on insulin vials or pens indicate...
1 in 10 Family Docs With Burnout Consider Quitting Medicine
Nearly half (47%) of family physicians who reported experiencing burnout in a Medscape survey said the burnout had had a strong or a severe impact...
Semaglutide for Weight Loss? A Good First STEP, With Caveats
The phase 3a STEP 1 trial that investigated the use of semaglutide (Novo Nordisk), a glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) agonist, for weight loss is aptly named,...
What’s the Best Second-Line Drug Class for Type 2 Diabetes?
Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors to treat type 2 diabetes appear to confer greater cardiovascular benefit than glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists among older adults...
Did Unrecognized Cardiac Amyloidosis Hinder Recent HFpEF Trials?
Screening for cardiac amyloidosis and excluding patients with cardiac amyloidosis from trials of new therapies for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) may increase...
Cardiometabolic Subspecialty Is ‘One-Stop Shop’ Approach to Diabetes
A one-stop shop approach to managing the spectrum of complications in patients with type 2 diabetes with a coordinated, multidisciplinary team of clinicians has taken...
Study Flags Cardiovascular Disease in Men With Breast Cancer
Cardiovascular disease and related risk factors can be common among male breast cancer patients, suggests a small study in this rare malignancy. Among 24 male...
UK Launch for Most Advanced ‘Artificial Pancreas’, MiniMed 780G
The MiniMed 780G system (Medtronic) advanced hybrid closed-loop insulin delivery system aimed at simplifying the management of type 1 diabetes is now available in the UK...
South Has High Rate of Unreported COVID Deaths, Study Says
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Southern states have higher rates of unreported COVID-related deaths than other...
Many EM Docs Have Treated COVID Patients Without Proper PPE
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Many emergency medicine (EM) physicians who responded to a Medscape survey...
FDA Welcomes Sotagliflozin Data for Heart Failure in Diabetes
The Food and Drug Administration has determined that data collected on the dual SGLT1/2 inhibitor sotagliflozin (Zynquista) for treating patients with type 2 diabetes in...
Endocrine Society Call for Action to Reduce Insulin Costs in US
The Endocrine Society has issued a new position statement calling on all stakeholders, including clinicians, to play a role in reducing the cost of insulin...
Independent NPs: What’s the Evidence?
In 2020, Florida and California passed legislation to relax scope-of-practice laws for nurse practitioners (NPs). Florida’s new law went into effect July 1 and allowed...
Expert Offers Clinical Pearls on Leg Ulcer Therapy
Chronic leg ulcers of all types feature a significant inflammatory component for which medical compression therapy is absolutely the best form of anti-inflammatory therapy, Elena...
First to Extend Health Coverage to Undocumented Seniors
As a nurse manager for one of Chicago’s busiest safety-net hospitals, Raquel Prendkowski has witnessed covid-19’s devastating toll on many of the city’s most vulnerable...
‘Keep Glucose in Check’ to Thwart Cardiac Autonomic Neuropathy
Among patients with type 2 diabetes at high risk of cardiovascular events, treating to tighter A1c and blood pressure targets was associated with a decreased...
Bringing Traditional Healing Under the Microscope in South Africa
Traditional healer and national coordinator of the Traditional Healers Organisation (THO) of South Africa, Phephisile Maseko, treats patients with a mix of cannabis and other...
Surgery Equals Drug Tx for Bleeding in Diabetic Retinopathy
In the treatment of vitreous hemorrhage from proliferative diabetic retinopathy, intraocular injection with anti–vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) shows similar efficacy to that of vitrectomy...
Type 1 Diabetes Screen Costing $55 Is Launched in US
A new initiative launched by the diabetes charity JDRF aims to broaden screening for type 1 diabetes risk for the general population of the United...
Democrats Are Running Hard on Health Care in Georgia’s Runoffs
In this Nov. 20, 2020, photo, Vice President Mike Pence and Kelly Loeffler wave to the crowd during a Defend the Majority Rally in Canton,...
Bariatric Surgery Might Reduce Severity of COVID-19 Infection
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. People with obesity who lost weight as a result of bariatric...
Temper Enthusiasm for Long-term Treatment With Bisphosphonates?
Women treated with oral bisphosphonate drugs for osteoporosis for 5 years get no additional benefit ― in terms of hip fracture risk ― if the...
Ambulatory BP Monitoring Reliability Questioned for HTN Diagnosis
Although guidelines generally recommend ambulatory over home blood pressure (BP) monitoring for diagnosing hypertension, new research questions home BP monitoring’s role as second fiddle. One...
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