Diabetes

Health care professionals interested in improving outcomes for patients who have diabetes may find an article published in the September issue of Current Diabetes Report interesting.

Patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes may be at an increased risk of certain preventable conditions.

The guidelines provide a few updates to the pharmacologic management of the disease.

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As of 2015, 30.3 million Americans—9.4% of the US population—have diabetes, and another 84.1 million Americans have prediabetes, according to a recently released report from the CDC.

FDA officials noted that the human insulin analog met all necessary regulatory requirements for approval, but the approval is tentative pending any patent issues that are yet to be resolved.

JDRF and IBM partner to develop data-driven methods to predict the onset of type 1 diabetes.

Pancreatic islet cells implanted under the skin may normalize blood glucose levels in type 1 diabetes patients.

Patients who were adherent to oral diabetes drugs spent $500 less on health care compared with nonadherent patients.

Patients who were not adherent to oral diabetes drugs had 1.3 times higher medical costs.

Increasing sleep by a half hour significantly reduced body weight and insulin resistance.

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Officials with the FDA have approved a new indication for liraglutide (Victoza, Novo Nordisk).

The CDC gives an overview of several ways patients with diabetes can prevent diabetic foot ulcers and amputations.

Hypoglycemia-related hospitalizations are common among patients with type 2 diabetes.

Walnuts may promote fullness and healthy eating habits.

Prescribing metformin for prediabetes could reduce healthcare costs by $820 million annually.

It may be possible to retrain the immune system to prevent or slow attacks on insulin-producing beta cells.

There are 30 million Americans living with diabetes, and 84 million Americans have prediabetes.

Novel diabetes biosimilar shows similar safety, efficacy, and immunogenicity to the reference drug.

Training the body to recognize beta cells as non-harmful may result in a cure for type 1 diabetes.