Endocrinology News

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.

The percentage of American teens with overweight and obesity who have tried to lose weight has decreased between 1988-1994 and 2009-2014, according to research published in JAMA Pediatrics. This decrease was observed in both boys and girls.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Children born to mothers with type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes or early-pregnancy gestational diabetes are more likely to receive an autism spectrum diagnosis compared with children born to mothers without diabetes in pregnancy, according to a speaker here.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Personalized text message interventions that incorporate the use of emojis and memes are more likely to engage adolescents with type 1 diabetes than automated messages, particularly for those who struggle with low diabetes self-management, according to a speaker here.

The FDA has extended approval of the MiniMed 670G hybrid closed-loop system to younger individuals aged 7 to 13 years with type 1 diabetes.

To coordinate pediatric research programs, the NIH announced the formation of the Trans-NIH Pediatric Research Consortium.

Delegates at this week’s AMA annual meeting supported a call to action that asks the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice to “monitor insulin pricing and market competition and take enforcement actions as appropriate,” according to a press release.

Infectious Diseases in Children asked David L. Katz, MD, MPH, director of Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, and founder of True Health Initiative, whether the current obesity prevention methods, including promoting physical activity, eating less fast food and taxing surgary drinks, will reduce the current rate of obesity. Can these methods work for a child who is already obese, and are new large-scale methods needed to address the current rate?

Despite childhood obesity and overweight being recognized as a public health crisis more than a decade ago, with intensive efforts devoted to addressing it, national survey data show increases in prevalence of overweight and obesity in every age category between 1999 and 2016.