Tag: diabetes mellitus
Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer — Are Sugary Drinks to Blame?
High consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) in adolescence and young adulthood could partially explain the recent rapid rise in early-onset colorectal cancer (EO-CRC) — at...
FDA Blazes Path for ‘Real-World’ Evidence as Proof of Efficacy
In 2016, results from the LEADER trial of liraglutide in patients with type 2 diabetes helped jumpstart awareness of the potential role of this new...
Most Kids With Type 1 Diabetes and COVID-19 in US Fared Well
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. The majority of children with type 1 diabetes who tested positive...
FDA Approves Dapagliflozin (Farxiga) for Chronic Kidney Disease
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved dapagliflozin (Farxiga, AstraZeneca) to reduce the risk for kidney function decline, kidney failure, cardiovascular death, and...
Older, Sicker Diabetes Patients Have Worse COVID-19 Prognosis
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. A large meta-analysis of patients with COVID-19 and diabetes “provides the...
Promising Data on Once-Weekly Insulin, Phase 3 Study Ongoing
Two new phase 2 studies show encouraging findings with the investigational once-weekly basal insulin analogue icodec (Novo Nordisk) for people with type 2 diabetes who...
New AHA Guidance on Obesity and Cardiovascular Risk
An updated American Heart Association scientific statement on the role of obesity in cardiovascular disease provides the first new guidance in 15 years, drawing on...
Wearable Continuous Ketone Monitoring Appears Feasible
Continuous measurement of ketone levels with a wearable device is feasible, new research suggests. A small sensing device worn on the upper arm, similar to...
Feds Let Illinois Extend Postpartum Medicaid Coverage
The federal government has approved a request by Illinois to extend postpartum Medicaid coverage to a full year from the current standard of 60 days....
Type 1 Diabetes and Transgender Identity: Is There a Link?
The prevalence of type 1 diabetes among transgender and gender diverse patients is higher than in the general population, research suggests. This has been reported...
CDC Declares Racism a Serious Public Health Threat
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday declared racism a serious public health threat and outlined steps it will take to address...
Bariatric Surgery May Cut Cancer in Obesity With Liver Disease
In a large cohort of insured working adults with severe obesity and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), among those who underwent bariatric surgery, the rate of...
Endocrinologist Charged After Bomb-Making Supplies Found
An endocrinologist in Naples, Florida, faces multiple federal charges after police found homemade explosives and bomb-making supplies, as well as numerous illegal drugs, in his...
Despite COVID, Americans Still Help Others With Medical Bills
The number of Americans donating to crowdfunding campaigns for medical bills during 2020 held steady relative to previous years, despite widespread financial hardships from the...
Aflibercept Won’t Help Vision in Early Diabetic Retinopathy
Intravitreal injections with aflibercept (Eylea) don’t improve the visual acuity of people with nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy (NPDR), researchers say. The treatments do reduce the risk...
Vasodilatory Medications Found Protective Against Rosacea
Vasodilators may have a protective effect against rosacea, results from a single-center retrospective cohort study showed. “Our initial hypothesis was that perhaps antihypertensive agents might...
‘Major Update’ of BP Guidance for Kidney Disease
The new 2021 Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) clinical practice guideline for blood pressure management for adults with chronic kidney disease (CKD) who are...
Eating Fish Links With Fewer CVD Events in High-Risk People
People with cardiovascular disease (CVD) who regularly ate fish had significantly fewer major CVD events and there were fewer total deaths compared with similar individuals...
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...
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