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April 26, 2023
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Top in endocrinology: AI in diabetes care; safety of tirzepatide

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Artificial intelligence may allow health care providers to combine large data sources to identify and calculate likely outcomes for individual patients, which may prove helpful in diabetes care, according to experts.

“The idea is that the information is so detailed and you have access to so many patients in your large database that you can make a good prediction of what’s going to happen next,” David C. Klonoff, MD, FACP, FRCP (Edin), Fellow AIMBE, a clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and medical director of the Diabetes Research Institute at Mills-Peninsula Medical Center, told Healio.

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Artificial intelligence may allow health care providers to combine large data sources to identify and calculate likely outcomes for individual patients, which may prove helpful in diabetes care, according to experts. Image: Adobe Stock

It was the top story in endocrinology last week.

The second top story covered data on tirzepatide (Mounjaro, Eli Lilly) that showed gastrointestinal adverse events were common, but less than 10% of adults receiving the medication reported a serious adverse event.

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