The AJMC® Diabetes compendium is a comprehensive resource for clinical news and expert insights for the chronic condition.
Hypoglycemia Upon Hospital Admission From Long-term Care: Health Care Resource Use
This analysis of a hospital billing database describes inpatient length of stay, intensive care unit length of stay, comorbidities, and costs for patients with diabetes after admission with hypoglycemia from long-term care or home.
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Patient and Supporter Factors Affecting Engagement With Diabetes Telehealth
Family support with medication management and recent urgent self-management concerns are 2 novel factors, among others, that predict completion of diabetes telehealth calls.
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Results of a representative study of patients at federally qualified health centers found Medicaid expansion was associated with reduced rates of uninsurance, improved blood pressure and diabetes control measures, and progress in closing racial care disparities over 5 years.
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Encourage Further SGLT2 Inhibitor Treatment for Diabetes, Kidney Disease, Expert Says
September 20th 2021New data from the CREDENCE trial shows that the sodium glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor canagliflozin may reduce hyperkalemia risk in people with type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease who are using RAAS inhibitors.
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FDA Grants Empagliflozin Breakthrough Therapy Designation in HFpEF
September 9th 2021The sodium glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor reduced cardiovascular death and hospitalization for heart failure by 21% in results presented August 27 during the recent European Society of Cardiology Congress.
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Dr Deepak L. Bhatt Discusses SGLT Inhibitors’ Impact on Glycemic Control
August 30th 2021Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, MPH, executive director of interventional cardiovascular programs at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Heart & Vascular Center and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, outlines the role that sodium glucose co-transporter (SGLT) inhibitors play in patients with diabetes and diminished glomerular filtration rates.
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Cost-effectiveness of Intensification With SGLT2 Inhibitors for Type 2 Diabetes
Adding a sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor dominated switching to a glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonist over the lifetimes of patients with type 2 diabetes not at glycated hemoglobin A1c target after treatment with metformin plus a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor.
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Dr Deepak Bhatt on the Potential Stroke Benefits of SGLT1s
July 27th 2021Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, MPH, executive director of interventional cardiovascular programs at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Heart & Vascular Center and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, discusses whether sodium glucose co-transporter 1 (SGLT1) inhibitors can yield stroke benefits in patients with type 2 diabetes.
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Dr Michelle Litchman Outlines the Benefits of Online Diabetes Peer Support Groups
July 14th 2021Michelle Litchman, PHD, FNP-BC, FAANP, FADCES, an assistant professor at the College of Nursing at the University of Utah, describes the results of a study that looked at diabetes technology use and online peer support systems among Spanish-speaking patients. Findings showed that when these 2 interventions are used in conjunction, a positive feedback loop forms.
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