What are the odds?

July 1, 2010

A 60-year-old Hispanic woman with insulin-requiring type 2 diabetes, which was diagnosed 27 years ago, and a history of kidney transplant presents for follow-up. The patient said she occasionall...

Blood glucose-lowering medications may increase risk for false positive results in cancer screenings

June 8, 2010

Society of Nuclear Medicine's 57th Annual Meeting Medications used to control blood glucose levels may skew the results of cancer screenings using positron emission tomography by increasing a...

Low HbA1c not linked to mortality in new ACCORD analysis

May 17, 2010

An analysis of mortality in the Action to Control Cardiovascular Disease in Diabetes, or ACCORD, study found that rapidly lowering glucose and maintaining near-normal glucose levels by using an ...

HbA1c better predictor of diabetes, heart disease than fasting blood glucose

March 5, 2010

HbA1c tests provide similar diabetes measurements to the traditional fasting blood glucose test, but the HbA1c excels in predicting future heart disease and stroke risks, researchers concluded i...

Examining the relationship between HbA1c, mortality

March 1, 2010

In a thought-provoking study published in the Lancet in February, Currie et al analyzed the relationship between HbA1c and survival in patients with diabetes, and reported associations between l...

Intensive glucose control may increase mortality risk

January 27, 2010

An HbA1c of 7.5% was associated with the lowest all-cause mortality and lowest progression to adverse events, but an increase or decrease from this value was associated with increased risk for a...

Gastrointestinal liner may improve glucose control in type 2 diabetes

November 18, 2009

Obese patients with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes who were treated with an investigational endoscopic duodenal-jejunal bypass liner achieved near normalization of glycemic control in one week, as...

Treat to target: Utilizing a patient-centered team approach

November 1, 2009

Much time and effort has been spent on determining which HbA1c target best fits the population with diabetes. Evidence-based practice suggests that reaching HbA1c levels ≤6.5% to 7% results i...

FDA warns of falsely elevated blood glucose results with GDH-PQQ test strips

August 14, 2009

Late yesterday, the FDA notified health care professionals of possible falsely elevated blood glucose results with the glucose dehydrogenase pyrroloquinoline quinone (GDH-PQQ) glucose test strip...

Current data reinforce HbA1c goal less than 7%

August 11, 2009

American Association of Diabetes Educators 36th Annual Meeting John B. Buse, MD, PhD, discussed how to interpret the recent Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes (ACCORD) finding...