Diabetes Education News

Adults with type 2 diabetes and opioid use disorder who received semaglutide had significantly lower risk for opioid overdose compared with those taking other diabetes medications, a research letter in JAMA Network Open showed.

The use of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors reduced the risk for multiple neurodegenerative diseases in adults with type 2 diabetes, according to study results published in Neurology.

Adolescent and young adult women who had prediabetes before becoming pregnant had a higher risk for gestational diabetes and adverse maternal outcomes than those with normal glycemic levels, researchers reported.

Both children and adults are more likely to be diagnosed with type 1 diabetes if they have a father with type 1 diabetes vs. a mother with the condition, according to a speaker.

The Federal Trade Commission announced it has filed an administrative complaint against three pharmacy benefit managers alleging “anticompetitive and unfair” rebate practices that have artificially inflated the price of insulin drugs.

In a small study of patients with type 1 diabetes using an automated insulin delivery system, semaglutide improved glucose control vs. placebo, researchers reported at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes Annual Meeting.

Adults with type 1 diabetes using either semaglutide or tirzepatide off-label had greater decreases in body weight and HbA1c than those not treated with either medication, according to a speaker.

Adults with type 2 diabetes using metformin before or during a SARS-CoV-2 infection may have a lower risk for long COVID than those using other diabetes medications, according to findings published in Diabetes Care.

In patients with basal insulin-treated type 2 diabetes, sotagliflozin was associated with greater time in range compared with placebo at 18 weeks, researchers reported at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes Annual Meeting.

Use of AI in medicine is growing quickly. Clinicians are eager to learn what the technology can do, and speakers at meetings across specialties are envisioning its effects — good and bad — in practice management and patient care.