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- Prediabetes treatment can prevent progression to diabetes
Prediabetes patients who were able to return to normal blood glucose levels, even for a short time and regardless of techniques used, were 56% less likely to develop full-blown type 2 diabetes in nearly six years of follow-up, a study presented at the ADA 72nd Scientific Sessions showed. The findings were published in The Lancet. HealthDay News
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- Some diabetes drugs raise macular edema risk, study finds
Type 2 diabetes patients who use thiazolidinediones such as Avandia and Actos are at two to three times higher risk of developing macular edema than nonusers, according to a study in the Archives of Internal Medicine. "More aggressive management of risk factors for macular edema should be implemented in patients who take thiazolidinedione," lead researcher Dr. Iskandar Idris said. "In addition, routine screening for visual acuity should be performed during routine diabetes review, especially for patients who take thiazolidinediones." HealthDay News
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- Fast glucose uptick raises treatment failure in young diabetes patients
A rapid increase in baseline A1C levels after initial stabilization elevates the risk of treatment failure in children with type 2 diabetes, suggesting that more intensive treatment may be needed, a study presented at the ADA 72nd Scientific Sessions found. "We need to identify specific thresholds for intensifying therapy, perhaps at diagnosis, perhaps after a certain period of treatment, or when the patient reaches a certain HbA1c threshold," researcher Dr. Sonia Caprio said. Family Practice News
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- Study: Exenatide better than glimepiride as second-line therapy
Among patients with type 2 diabetes not controlled by metformin, fewer experienced treatment failure with twice-daily exenatide than with once-daily glimepiride, according to a study presented at the ADA 72nd Scientific Sessions and published in The Lancet. Researchers also noted lower blood glucose levels and greater weight loss in the exenatide group than the glimepiride group. Endocrine Today
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- Strategies targeting health care system show blood glucose benefits
The use of quality improvement strategies -- including team changes, case management, patient education and self-management promotion -- helped reduce blood glucose levels and improved cardiovascular risk factors in diabetes patients after a one-year follow-up, a meta-analysis revealed. QI strategies that dealt with the entire chronic disease management system had the biggest impacts regardless of baseline A1C rates, researchers said. The results were presented at the ADA 72nd Scientific Sessions and published in The Lancet. MedPage Today (free registration)
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- Poll: 64% are against NYC plan to restrict beverage sizes
An American Mosaic Reuters/Ipsos poll indicates that 64% of Americans say they'd oppose a plan similar to one in New York City to limit serving sizes of sugary drinks. More than 70% said such a measure would not reduce obesity rates, and people who opposed the idea felt it would give the government too much control over their dietary choices. Reuters
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- Study examines physicians' tech use
Eighty-one percent of physicians surveyed used a portable device to access the Internet in the last six months, while 59% used social networking sites and 49% used e-mail to communicate with their patients, a study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association revealed. The results show that demographic characteristics, and not specialty or practice setting, were more consistent predictors of technology use among physicians. American Medical News (free content)
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- Combined EHRs help identify 1.1M people with diabetes
Researchers detected nearly 1.1 million individuals with diabetes after examining 15.8 million EHRs from 11 integrated health plans and used those EHRs to create a database registry, called Surveillance, Prevention and Management of Diabetes Mellitus DataLink. The registry is one aspect of an overall information-sharing initiative called Virtual Data Warehouse that is supported by an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality grant. Modern Healthcare (subscription required)
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- Latest abstracts to close out scientific sessions
The most up-to-date advances in diabetes research will be featured in the Late Breaking Abstracts session, which will close out this year's ADA 72nd Scientific Sessions. Presentations will focus on abstracts submitted to the ADA in late April and early May and include "a very interesting balance between
basic science and clinical trials," according to Dr. Robert E. Ratner, ADA Chief Scientific and Medical Officer. ADA Diabetes Dispatch
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CME/CE Credit for the 72nd Scientific Sessions
Don't forget to visit scientificsessions.diabetes.org to obtain CME/CE credit for the meeting! The online system is available through July 13.
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