As we celebrate the centennial of insulin’s discovery, recent research from Endocrine Society journals sheds new light on the often-confounding condition of insulin resistance, its comorbidities, and treatment. This month marks the centennial of what can only be called one of the 20th century’s greatest medical breakthroughs: successfully lowering dangerously high blood glucose levels with...
A new analysis from the STAMPEDE trial shows that over the course of five years, patients who had bariatric and metabolic surgery to treat uncontrolled type 2 diabetes reported greater physical health, more energy, less body pain, and less negative effects of diabetes in their daily lives, compared with patients who had medical therapy alone...
As obesity and diabetes rates continue to climb, so too do rates of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). A CEU 2021 session will teach attendees how to identify NAFLD as well as the best treatment protocols. As it stands, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is on track to overtake viral hepatitis as the leading cause...
Antacids improved blood sugar control in people with diabetes but had no effect on reducing the risk of diabetes in the general population, according to a new meta-analysis published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. Type 2 diabetes is a global public health concern affecting almost 10 percent of people worldwide. Doctors...
Two recent papers touted the benefits of having an endocrine hospitalist-led Inpatient Diabetes Management Service (IDMS) in a community hospital setting to reduce the rates of both hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia, length of stay, and even hospital costs. Endocrine News gets a firsthand look at a community hospital’s use of an IDMS from both endocrinologists and...
There were no significant differences in health outcomes for pregnant women who were diagnosed with gestational diabetes or their babies using two different clinically recommended screening methods, according to results from a large-scale clinical trial conducted by Kaiser Permanente researchers and published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Although there is evidence that treating...
Factors other than how much weight a woman gains during pregnancy may contribute to metabolic complications such as gestational diabetes (GDM), according to a paper recently published in Journal of the Endocrine Society. Researchers led by Fernanda L. Alvarado, MD, of the Mother Infant Research Institute at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, Mass., point out...
[Editor’s note: This post has been updated to clarify that the meta-analysis published in Diabetologia and the Phase IIb trial were separate studies.] Earlier this fall, Phase IIb topline results of the DIAGNODE-2 trial demonstrated a potential type 1 diabetes vaccine GAD-alum — an immunomodulating antigen-specific therapy – had a highly significant and clinically relevant...
As obesity and diabetes rates continue to climb, so too do rates of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). A CEU 2021 session will teach attendees how to identify NAFLD as well as the best treatment protocols. As it stands, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is on track to overtake viral hepatitis as the leading cause...
Two recent papers touted the benefits of having an endocrine hospitalist-led Inpatient Diabetes Management Service (IDMS) in a community hospital setting to reduce the rates of both hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia, length of stay, and even hospital costs. Endocrine News gets a firsthand look at a community hospital’s use of an IDMS from both endocrinologists and...
