14 Mar 2012
| by Dr Raj Thakkar
A review of research impacting primary care, covering cancer referrals, MI, and diabetes. By Dr Raj...and practice nurses to manage patients' anxieties more effectively.
Treating type 2 diabetes Lancet 2012 ...
in the incidence of diabetes. Treatment has changed radically, but more needs to be done.
This phase II RCT tested whether activation of free fatty acid receptor 1 (FFAR1) in patients with type 2 diabetes improved ...
01 Feb 2012
| by Dr Bryan Palmer
in guiding choice between type 2 diabetes mellitus medications, but little is known about their quality ...
medications to treat type 2 diabetes.
Not all guidelines on oral treatment of type 2 diabetes were ...
with type 2 diabetes mellitus taking GLP-1 agonists, would these drugs cause weight loss in overweight ...
GPs should be wary of labelling type 2 diabetics as 'cured' by weight-loss surgery to avoid them...Bariatric physicians at the Diabetes UK Professional Conference 2012 in Glasgow last week said surgery can have profound beneficial effects on patients diabetes. But there is little evidence it can immediately cut diabetic comorbidities, they said. Telling patients their disease is in remission or cured ...
15 Feb 2012
| by Dr Louise Newson
Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is glucose intolerance during pregnancy. Although most cases resolve after the birth of the baby, there is an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes ...
sevenfold increased risk of developing diabetes later in life. It is an important condition to diagnose ...
27 Mar 2012
| by Stephen Robinson
and diabetes and should be helped by their GP to reduce this risk, researchers have said....the condition. They are also three times more likely than their peers to develop type 2 diabetes ...
of developing type 2 diabetes was 1.8-fold higher among 21,734 young women with a new diagnosis of PCOS than ...
said that managing weight could be an important way to reduce risk of diabetes in this patient group ...
18 Apr 2012
| by Dr Louise Newson
diabetes N Engl J Med 2012; 366: 1209-17 Many patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus have limitations ...
and 74 years with type 2 diabetes to either an intensive lifestyle intervention or a diabetes support ...
slowed the decline in mobility in overweight adults with type 2 diabetes. However, it should be noted ...
28 Mar 2012
| by Dr Bryan Palmer
in Wales.
Researchers reviewed 57,199 people with type 2 diabetes mellitus diagnosed at age 30 or older ...
with metformin, in adults with type 2 diabetes.
The review of RCTs included 27 reports of 19 studies including ...
and side-effects.
Diabetes: study examined the efficacy and safey of DPP-4 inhibitors on type 2 ...
09 May 2012
| by Dr Lizzie Croton
Metformin and insulin in type 2 diabetes BMJ 2012; 344: e1771 This systematic review ...
in adult patients with type 2 diabetes.
Data were obtained from 23 trials with 2,117 participants ...
patients with type 2 diabetes N Engl J Med 2012; 366: 1567-76 This single-centre trial involved 150 ...
11 Jan 2012
| by Dr Jean Watkins
but possible genetic link.
Sometimes linked with type 1 diabetes. Rarely linked with type 2 diabetes.
May ...
but more often occurs in, or precedes, the development of diabetes.
More common in women.
May occur ...
become infected.
Investigations
Check urine for glucose in patients without diabetes ...
comparator for evaluating new diabetes drugs. ...