Diabetes News

A multicomponent, technologically enabled intervention led by pharmacists improved medication adherence for diabetes, hyperlipidemia and hypertension, according to findings recently published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Adults with type 2 diabetes who underwent bariatric surgery had lower risk for neuropathy, nephropathy and retinopathy than those who underwent usual care, according to findings recently published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson has ended the phase 3 Canagliflozin and Renal Events in Diabetes with Established Nephropathy Clinical Evaluation, also known as CREDENCE, based on the achievement of pre-specified efficacy criteria, the company reported.

The partners of people recently diagnosed with diabetes were more likely to make health-related behavioral changes even without lifestyle interventions, according to findings recently published in the Annals of Family Medicine.

PHILADELPHIA — Less than one-third of adults with diabetes and cardiovascular disease achieve goals for secondary prevention, including smoking cessation, use of prophylactic medications, and blood pressure and lipid control, according to a speaker here.

Self-monitoring of blood glucose in patients with noninsulin-treated type 2 diabetes may lower health care spending with little to no harm to these patients, according to findings recently published in Annals of Family Medicine.

Slightly more than one-third of primary care providers knew of the CDC-recognized lifestyle change program for preventing diabetes, and less than 20% knew of the agency’s STAT toolkit that serves the same purpose, according to findings recently published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

June is Men’s Health Month, an annual commemoration intended “to heighten the awareness of preventable health problems and encourage early detection and treatment of disease among men and boys,” according to MensHealthMonth.org.

Research that will appear in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology provided insights on the genetics underlying nephrotic syndrome in children and could lead to new diagnostic tests and treatments.

According to a study that examined Pima Indians with type 2 diabetes, white blood cell fractions were linked with morphometric lesions of diabetic kidney disease and predicted loss of renal function.