Type 2 Diabetes

A once-weekly basal insulin conferred similar changes in HbA1c and time in range as once-daily insulin glargine among adults with type 1 and type 2 diabetes in three phase 2 trials, according to a speaker.

GLP-1 receptor agonists come with known adverse events — some common and some rare — but recent reports by the public of alopecia and suicidal ideation have the FDA investigating.

The FDA is allowing Dexcom Stelo to market and sell a continuous glucose monitor to patients without a prescription. The Dexcom Stelo Glucose Biosensor System will be the first over-the-counter CGM on the market.

Using a pod-based automated insulin delivery system can provide glycemic benefits for people with type 2 diabetes, according to a speaker at the International Conference on Advanced Technologies & Treatments for Diabetes.

A slew of new medications currently in development may allow health care providers to go beyond glycemic management in the treatment of type 2 diabetes, according to a speaker.

Adults with type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease have a 24% lower risk for kidney disease progression and cardiovascular and kidney mortality with once-weekly semaglutide 1 mg, according to topline results from the FLOW trial.

Men who had a lower birth weight followed by overweight during young adulthood have a greatly increased risk for developing type 2 diabetes vs. those with normal weight at those times, according to study results published in Diabetologia.

The FDA said it will permit the use of two limited health claims that eating yogurt may reduce the risk for type 2 diabetes, according to a press release.

Testosterone replacement therapy alone did not lower risk for progression from prediabetes to diabetes or increase the likelihood of type 2 diabetes remission among men with hypogonadism, according to study data.

Adults with type 2 diabetes and obesity who underwent bariatric surgery were more likely to achieve diabetes remission at 7 years than those treated with medication or lifestyle intervention, according to study findings published in JAMA.