Diabetes

Treatment of obesity-related HF with preserved ejection fraction with semaglutide 2.4 mg improved body weight, physical function and HF symptoms regardless of the extent of patient frailty, a speaker reported.

Recommending tap water consumption could help address health and environmental concerns related to bottled water, according to a commentary published in BMJ Global Health.

Follow-up albuminuria testing can be an important step in kidney care following initial abnormal results from a urine protein dipstick test, according to an analysis of health records.

Use of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists was associated with an increased risk for gastric food retention during single endoscopic procedures, although this risk was low when combined with colonoscopy, according to research.

In this video, David Nathan, MD, discusses the various treatment options for patients with diabetes.

Long-term albuminuria risks for U.S. adults with Asian/Pacific Islander ancestry who have diabetes and normal kidney function differ across ethnic subgroups, according to data published in Kidney Medicine.

One of many challenges parents face when their child is diagnosed with diabetes is how the condition will be managed in school, particularly if the child is using a diabetes device.

Decreases in body weight and HbA1c induced by GLP-1 receptor agonists and other diabetes drugs can reduce the risk for cardiometabolic complications for adults newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, researchers reported.

A county-level assessment of deaths from cardio-kidney-metabolic disease and social determinants of health revealed that particular determinants are more or less important in different U.S. regions, researchers reported in JAMA.

Replacing ultraprocessed foods with lesser or nonprocessed options may decrease the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, results from a prospective cohort analysis in the Lancet Regional Health Europe showed.