Diabetic Neuropathy

Older adults with type 1 or type 2 diabetes who sustain an incident hip fracture have a similar likelihood for a subsequent hip fracture as those without diabetes, according to study data published in Bone.

SEATTLE — The rate of deaths attributed to vascular complications increased from 2001 to 2020 for adults with diabetes in the U.S., with the rise mainly due to an increase in deaths from diabetic nephropathy, according to a speaker.

SAN DIEGO — Internists should prioritize the assessment, documentation and treatment of wounds, according to a speaker.

Maintaining a healthy lifestyle — before or after type 2 diabetes diagnosis — was associated with significantly lower risk for microvascular complications for people with the disease, according to study data.

BALTIMORE — Most children with youth-onset type 2 diabetes develop macrovascular or microvascular complications within a decade of diagnosis, and the risk for beta cell function failure increases over time, according to a speaker.

Adults with diabetes and neuropathy experience significantly more fatigue than those with diabetes and no neuropathy and people without diabetes, according to a speaker at the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology annual meeting.

SAN DIEGO — Adults with diabetes experience more fatigue compared with those without diabetes, with diabetic neuropathy being the primary driver for increased fatigue, according to a speaker.

A kidney disease panel for 382 genes yielded a high success rate and was effective in identifying monogenic variants underlying inherited kidney diseases, according to data published in the American Journal of Nephrology.

About one in five adults with type 1 diabetes reports having symptomatic diabetic autonomic neuropathy, according to study findings published in the Journal of Diabetes and Its Complications.

Adults with type 1 diabetes for at least 25 years have lower areal bone mineral density compared with those without diabetes, and diabetic neuropathy is linked to further BMD declines in the ultradistal tibia, according to study data.