Diabetes News

While nearly 40% of all hospitalizations for acute kidney injury during a 14-year period were for patients with diabetes, a recently published analysis in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report also highlighted a trend concerning the overall rate of hospitalizations for acute kidney injury.

The American Kidney Fund is partnering with TMF Health Quality Institute in a new initiative to educate people with diabetes and prediabetes about their risks for kidney disease. The 2-year partnership will incorporate chronic kidney disease education into TMF’s diabetes education curriculum.

Researchers from The George Institute for Global Health at the University of Sydney reported that BMI can be a predictor of developing end-stage renal disease among patients with type 2 diabetes.

Modifiable risk factors, such as socioeconomic factors, educational attainment and access to health care, may contribute to an increased risk of type 2 diabetes in young black adults. The disease occurs twice as often in this group compared to white individuals.

Results from a study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis indicate patients with kidney disease may also develop diabetes if progression toward kidney failure is not addressed.

Among patients with type 2 diabetes, the drug semaglutide taken by pill resulted in better glycemic control than placebo over 26 weeks, findings that support phase 3 studies to assess longer-term and clinical outcomes, as well as safety, according to a study published in JAMA.

A team led by Kaiser Permanente researchers has developed and validated a tool for identifying diabetes patients who are at the highest risk for being admitted to an emergency department or hospital due to severe hypoglycemia. Their results are published Aug. 21 in JAMA Internal Medicine..

More than 100 million U.S. adults have diabetes or prediabetes, according to a new report released July 18 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The report finds that as of 2015, 30.3 million Americans – 9.4% of the U.S. population –have diabetes. Another 84.1 million have prediabetes, a condition that if not treated often leads to type 2 diabetes within five years.

Physician assistants in the Phoenix Veterans Administration Health Care System (PVAHCS) undertook a process improvement project addressing the need for over-the-counter (OTC) medication counseling for diabetic patients. Within the framework of the Kidneys-in-a-Box (KIB) program, published by the National Academy of Nephrology PAs, participants examined current practices for the six modifiable factors outlined in the National Kidney Disease Education Program (NKDEP) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Kidney failure from diabetes among American Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) adults decreased 54% between 1996 and 2013, according to a recently released Vital Signs report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).1 The authors point out that this remarkable decrease follows population-based approaches to diabetes management and improvements in clinical care begun by the Indian Health Service (IHS) in the mid-1980s. Furthermore, the authors suggest that these approaches might be a useful model for diabetes management in other health care systems, especially those serving populations at high risk.