Diabetes News

African Caribbean adults with type 1 diabetes have a higher risk for kidney function loss than those of other ethnicities, according to study findings published in Diabetes Care.

BALTIMORE — Healthy diabetes management behaviors, such as eating fewer calories, taking insulin and regularly checking feet, are associated with lower HbA1c, according to a presenter.

Experts across the cardiorenal metabolic specialties will again convene to present innovative research on the relationship between type 2 diabetes, CVD and renal disease, including controversial debates and panel discussions.

Black, Hispanic and Asian Americans may be at risk for developing diabetes at lower weights and younger ages than white Americans, according to a study in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Implementing new guidelines would increase screening eligibility and detection of diabetes and prediabetes, according to an analysis published in JAMA.

The proportion of deaths attributed to COVID-19 in people with diabetes in the U.S. in the last 3 months of 2020 was slightly higher than the percentage of people who died due to cardiovascular disease or diabetes, according to study data.

BOSTON — In a review of the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes recommendations, a speaker discussed the Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative commentary on the updated guidelines here.

WASHINGTON — The dual SGLT inhibitor sotagliflozin reduced total CV death, MI and stroke in adults with type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease both with and without prior CVD, according to new analyses of the SCORED trial.

Adults with atrial fibrillation and diabetes who received non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants had a lower risk for diabetes complications and mortality than those who received warfarin, a retrospective cohort study showed.

For commercial insurers and Medicare, it may be cost-effective to add empagliflozin to the standard of care treatment for patients with diabetic kidney disease, according to data published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases.