| BEYOND provides evidence that it is possible and safe to switch from a BBI regimen to either a once-daily fixed-combo injection or once-daily gliflozin added to basal insulin, with similar glucose control, fewer insulin doses, fewer injections daily, and less hypoglycemia (Diabetes Care)
Dasiglucagon provided rapid and effective reversal of hypoglycemia in adults with type 1 diabetes, with safety and tolerability similar to those reported for reconstituted glucagon injection. The ready-to-use, aqueous formulation of dasiglucagon offers the potential to provide rapid and reliable treatment of severe hypoglycemia (Diabetes Care)
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The incidence of dusk phenomenon is about 27.3% in people with type 2 diabetes. The impacts of dusk phenomenon on HbA1c and 24-hour mean glucose were about 0.4% and 0.9 mmol/L and the dusk phenomenon was not related with the dawn phenomenon (Medicine)
Our results indicate that a first step towards tailored prescribing has been made. However, not all determinants that are important to consider when prescribing second-line glucose lowering agents were of influence on general practitioners’ prescribing (Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice)
The algorithm demonstrated safe levels of sensitivity for high-risk retinopathy in a real-world screening service, with specificity that could halve the workload for human graders (British Journal of Ophthalmology)
You can now review and comment on this draft guideline. The consultation closes on 19 May 2021 at 5pm (NICE)
This large retrospective study on hospitalizations for acute diabetes complications shows that a significantly lower incidence of admissions for DKA and for diabetes-related coma is associated with use of flash glucose monitoring (Diabetes Care)
SOCRATES can categorize children with type 1 diabetes and their parents into motivational stages. While motivational stage was associated with glycemic control at trial entry, it did not predict future diabetes-related behaviour or HbA1c (Canadian Journal of Diabetes)
The study demonstrates there is only limited peri‐operative management of diabetes in people undergoing cardiac surgery in the UK. There is an opportunity for greater involvement of the diabetes specialist team both before and during admission for surgery to improve outcomes (Diabetic Medicine)
This study supports including BMI and presence of type 2 diabetes risk factors as action points for clinicians to prioritize which adults aged ≥ 45 years should be screened. The application of race/ethnicity‐specific BMI thresholds may reduce the disparity of undiagnosed type 2 diabetes observed in minority groups (Diabetic Medicine)
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