Type 2 Diabetes

Black adults with type 2 diabetes have a higher risk for developing chronic kidney disease and heart failure than white adults, and the time from diabetes diagnosis to CKD or heart failure was 12 years or less in all age groups.

Hospitalized adults with type 2 diabetes have a higher risk for future cardiovascular events with a dramatic decline in HbA1c coupled with long-term high glucose levels as measured by skin autofluorescence, according to study data.

Adults with type 2 diabetes who drank a low-dose premeal shot of whey protein before each meal spent less time in hyperglycemia and more time in range compared with placebo, according to study findings.

PHILADELPHIA — An interactive, data-driven tool can individualize care for people with type 2 diabetes while promoting shared decision-making between clinicians and patients, according to a speaker at the Heart in Diabetes CME conference.

PHILADELPHIA — In this Healio video exclusive, Joshua J. Joseph, MD, MPH, FAHA, discussed the recent American Heart Association scientific statement on health equity in managing CV risk in type 2 diabetes.

LONDON — A low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet significantly improved nonalcoholic fatty liver disease activity score and HbA1c more than a high-carbohydrate, low-fat diet in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus, according to a researcher here.

PHILADELPHIA — Multiple, evidence-based strategies can decrease CV events in high-risk people with diabetes, yet clinicians must individualize approaches based on patient preference, individual risk factors and cost, according to a speaker.

LONDON — Alcohol misuse was a primary trigger for progression of liver disease to hepatocellular carcinoma among a subset of French patients with type 2 diabetes, according to data presented at the International Liver Congress.

For decades, clinicians and researchers have recognized that some people with type 2 diabetes of short duration who adhere to intensive glucose-lowering therapy can achieve normal blood glucose levels and discontinue treatment.

Among patients with type 2 diabetes and normal thyroid function, thyroid hormone levels were linked to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, suggesting assessment of these hormones might be beneficial for disease prevention and treatment.