Diabetes
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Poor night’s sleep impairs glucose control the next morning
A poor night’s sleep and going to bed later than usual are both associated with impaired blood glucose response to high-fat, high-carbohydrate...
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Make cholesterol control a greater priority in diabetes
“Efforts to control LDL-C should be increased – especially in patients with continuously elevated levels.”
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Retinopathy risk in children higher in T2D than T1D
Among a population-based cohort of children, the risk of diabetic retinopathy was 88% greater in those with T2D than T1D within the first 15 years...
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SGLT2 inhibitor use tied to fewer atrial arrhythmias
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Bullae on elderly woman’s toes
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Swell in off-label antipsychotic prescribing ‘not harmless’
Clinicians should be made aware that low-dose treatment with these drugs for insomnia and anxiety “might come at a cost of shortening patients’...
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Type 2 diabetes remission can happen naturally in 1 in 20
About 1 in 20 people in Scotland who had previously been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes were in remission in 2019, usually without a history of an...
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Case: Older patient with T2D has recurrent flushing
Learn four principles to help make diagnoses in challenging cases like this one.
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EMPEROR-Preserved findings confirmed in ‘true’ HFpEF patients
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Specific blood pressure-lowering drugs prevent onset of new diabetes
Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin II receptor blockers showed the strongest association with preventive effects.
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ASCEND: Aspirin shows hint of dementia protection in T2D