Diabetes News

Presentations on the latest cardiometabolic research, panel discussions and updated practice recommendations are among this year’s highlights at the 21st World Congress on Insulin Resistance, Diabetes & Cardiovascular Disease.

Clinicians and microbiologists who care for patients with diabetic foot infections may be able to decrease the use of mycobacterial cultures and health care costs because these infections are uncommon, according to study data.

The total annual cost of caring for Americans with diabetes in 2022 was an estimated $412.9 billion, and one in four total health care dollars in the U.S. went toward diabetes care, according to a report.

A man aged 51 years with a history of alcohol use disorder and type 2 diabetes treated with metformin and glimepiride and alcohol presented to the hospital for a witnessed cardiac arrest at home.

Using DNA methylation markers in blood samples may help predict the progression of diabetic kidney disease in patients with type 2 diabetes, recent data suggests.

SGLT2 inhibitors reduce risk for CV death and HF events in patients with any or multiple of HF, type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease, according to a meta-analysis published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

PHILADELPHIA — In this Healio video exclusive, Mikhail Kosiborod, MD, FACC, FAHA, co-chair of the Heart in Diabetes CME Conference, discusses the accomplishments of the meeting.

Finerenone, a nonsteroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist, may improve CV risk among patients with type 2 diabetes and kidney disease and those with albuminuria, according to a FIDELITY substudy published in JAMA Cardiology.

PHILADELPHIA — In this Healio video exclusive, Healio | Cardiology Today Editorial Board Member Susan Cheng, MD, MPH, MMSc, discusses the excess risk for heart attack in patients with COVID-19.

PHILADELPHIA — Peripheral artery disease is often the first manifestation of CVD in patients with type 2 diabetes, and represents a “unique” malignant phenotype, a speaker said during the Heart in Diabetes CME Conference.