Search results for "Keeping tabs"
Spotlight on self-management
One study found that personalized text messaging improved patients' self-management while another looked at the potential value of providing social comparisons to other patients' diabetes control.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2018/06/08/5.htm
8 Jun 2018
Spotlight on resistance training
Several recent studies found modest benefits to patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes participating in strengthening exercises.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2022/12/09/5.htm
9 Dec 2022
Spotlight on innovative uses of CGM
Recent trials indicated effectiveness of open-source automated insulin delivery systems, inpatient insulin management based on continuous glucose monitoring (CGM), and CGM for certain patients with type 2 diabetes who are not taking insulin.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2022/09/16/5.htm
16 Sep 2022
Spotlight on metformin
Metformin—including its use, effects, and mechanisms—was the focus of some research published in the past month.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2014/11/14/9.htm
14 Nov 2014
Spotlight on predicting cardiovascular events
Predicting cardiovascular events in patients with type 2 diabetes was the focus of multiple recent studies.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2016/06/10/7.htm
10 Jun 2016
Advice on using oral therapy
When initiating oral therapy for patients in whom diet and exercise do not adequately control type 2 diabetes, consider some advice from ACP Smart Medicine and ACP DiabetesMonthly's physician editor.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2013/12/13/7.htm
13 Dec 2013
Spotlight on type 1 diabetes and pregnancy
One recent study examined rates of autism spectrum disorder in children in California, while another in Sweden compared birth defects in infants of mothers with type 1 diabetes and infants of mothers without diabetes.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2018/07/13/5.htm
13 Jul 2018
Spotlight on statins in diabetes
Recent studies looked at how statins negatively affect glycemic control but improve cardiovascular mortality, as well as the reasons patients with diabetes don't receive prescriptions for statins despite recommendations.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2023/04/14/5.htm
14 Apr 2023
Spotlight on hypoglycemia
The risks and consequences of hypoglycemia were described by several studies published recently.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2013/08/09/9.htm
9 Aug 2013
Spotlight on stroke risk
Recent studies looked at stroke risk among patients with diabetes and the effects of hypertension treatment, acetaminophen use, gout, and obesity.
https://diabetes.acponline.org/archives/2019/05/10/5.htm
10 May 2019