Type 2 Diabetes

For a while now, I have wanted to write about Sarah Hallberg, DO, who died in March. I was not sure how best to tell the story about this champion whom I was blessed to have met in person.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has published a final recommendation in JAMA, stating there is insufficient evidence to assess the benefits and harms of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes screening in asymptomatic children and adolescents.

Increased burden of youth-onset type 2 diabetes during the COVID-19 pandemic led to increased strain on pediatric diabetes health care providers, children and families, according to findings published in The Journal of Pediatrics.

The proportion of people with type 2 diabetes diagnosed with depression in the U.S. and U.K. increased from 2006 to 2017, particularly among those diagnosed with diabetes at a younger age, according to a study published in Diabetologia.

Adults with type 2 diabetes or a sleep disorder have an increased risk for depression compared with those with neither condition, according to data published in the Journal of Diabetes and Its Complications.

Healio and Cardiology Today have compiled a list of the top news in cardiology of August 2022.

An analysis of Danish registry data show that NSAID use, even for a short time, could raise risk for new-onset HF hospitalization among adults with type 2 diabetes, researchers reported at the European Society of Cardiology Congress.

A subanalysis of the FIDELITY trial showed finerenone reduced risk for all-cause and CV mortality, including sudden cardiac death, compared with placebo in adults with type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease.

More adults with type 2 diabetes achieved guideline-recommended strategies for stroke prevention in 2018 compared with 2001, but further improvements are needed, according to study findings published in Diabetes Care.

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.