Diabetes

ORLANDO — Among adults with obesity-related heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, women taking semaglutide lost significantly more weight than men, but greater weight loss did not result in extra health benefits for women vs. men.

ORLANDO — The generic lipid-lowering drug fenofibrate was associated with a significant reduction in progression of diabetic retinopathy and maculopathy, researchers reported.

ORLANDO — Continuous glucose monitoring metrics can predict imminent stage 3 type 1 diabetes for people who are islet autoantibody positive, according to a speaker at the American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions.

ORLANDO — In this video exclusive, Osagie Ebekozien, MD, MPH, CPHQ, chief medical officer at T1D Exchange, talks about a victory in increasing access to continuous glucose monitors.

ORLANDO — Health care inequities led to some children and adolescents starting continuous glucose monitoring more than 6 months after a type 1 diabetes diagnosis, according to data presented here.

ORLANDO — Race-conscious medicine can help to identify those at higher risk for prediabetes and diabetes; however, this method can exacerbate racism and impede health equity, according to two speakers.

“I’ve always wanted to be a doctor,” Samuel Dagogo-Jack, MD, DSc, this year’s recipient of the American Diabetes Association’s Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Diabetes Research Award, told Healio.

ORLANDO — A tubeless automated insulin delivery system improved multiple glycemic outcomes among a large group of adults with type 2 diabetes, according to data presented at the American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Although more than 70% of surveyed optometrists felt they bore some responsibility to provide nutrition counseling to patients with diabetes, most spent less than 2 minutes doing so, according to research.

PHILADELPHIA — The course of eGFR decline after kidney transplant may be worse for patients who gain weight after surgery, data from the American Transplant Congress show.