Diabetes News

Adults with type 1 diabetes who used an automated insulin delivery system with settings changed by the system instead of a provider had improvements in time in range and HbA1c at 13 weeks, according to a speaker.

People with type 1 diabetes using a hybrid closed-loop insulin delivery system are less likely to experience severe hypoglycemia than nonusers, according to study data.

Interventions that incorporate shared decision-making, reduce racial-ethnic bias and provide language-specific instruction can reduce disparities with continuous glucose monitoring use in type 1 diabetes, according to two presenters.

Adults with type 2 diabetes have a higher risk for diabetic foot ulcers if they have albuminuric diabetic kidney disease, but not if they have normal albumin levels, according to study findings.

Testosterone replacement therapy combined with lifestyle modification may contribute to improved metabolic and glucose profiles for men with hypogonadism and prediabetes, according to a review article.

Adults with long-standing type 1 diabetes and proliferative diabetic retinopathy had worse functional vision than controls without diabetes, but no decline in quality of life was observed from 2007 to 2019, according to study findings.

Adults with type 2 diabetes who use statins have a lower risk for hip fracture than those who do not use statins, according to data published in Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews.

In the United States, just half of patients with type 1 diabetes who had overweight or obesity received weight management lifestyle recommendations from providers or engaged in lifestyle modification, data show.

In pregnancies with type 2 diabetes, metformin plus insulin did not reduce risks for adverse neonatal outcomes compared with placebo plus insulin, according to findings presented at The Pregnancy Meeting.

Compared with boys, girls with type 1 diabetes have worse HbA1c, higher BMI and more diabetic ketoacidosis and require higher insulin doses, according to a systematic review published in Diabetologia.