UPDATES ON DIABETES

Diabetes is one of the most common and most challenging diseases in primary care. How best to help your patients achieve glycemic control? To that end, we have created this resource page.

In addition to articles from Consultantlive.com and PediatricsConsultantlive.com, you'll find the latest news on treating diabetes from around the web. We encourage you to check back regularly because this information is updated often.

—Susan Kweskin, Editor of Consultantlive.com

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IMAGES IN DIABETES

Necrobiosis lipoidica

Case history: For 2 years, a patient has had this red plaque with a yellow atrophic center on the leg. More >>

GUIDELINES

American Diabetes Association 2010 Clinical Practice Recommendations

American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists Medical Guidelines for Clinical Practice for the Management of Diabetes Mellitus

Glycemic Control and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: The Optimal Hemoglobin A1c Targets. A Guidance Statement from the American College of Physicians

National Diabetes Education Program: Resources for Health Care Professionals

Diagnosis and Management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Adults: Guideline From the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement

PATIENT RESOURCES

National Diabetes Education Program: Resources for Patients

dLife: Diabetes Resource Center and Community

From the American Diabetes Association:

• Diabetes Basics

• Living With Diabetes

• Food and Fitness

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FEATURED ARTICLES

May 15, 2012

Two Screening Tests Predict Incipient Diabetes

A retrospective study suggests that HbA1c plus FPG should prove useful in assessing diabetes risk in healthy patients. More »

May 8, 2012

Perleche, An Accompanying Sign of Diabetes

A 66-year-old woman presented with pruritic, burning skin “lesions” at the corner of her mouth. Recent complete... More »

May 1, 2012

Patients with Diabetes Not at Highest Risk for Contrast-Induced Nephrotoxicity

New study challenges common belief and finds patients with a history of renal disease, hypertension or heart disease were more likely to suffer renal insufficiency. More »

April 30, 2012

Lifestyle Intervention Slows Mobility Loss in Obese Adults With Diabetes

An intervention that results in weight loss and improved fitness may slow the decline in mobility that often occurs with aging in overweight and obese adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). More »

April 30, 2012

Diabetes Quiz: A 79-Year-Old With Elevated AlC Who Has Had a Stroke: How Would You Treat?

The elderly patient has had type 2 diabetes for 15 years is now home bound after a stroke. Her HbA1c is 9.6; random blood sugar, 450; triglycerides, 350; HDL, 40; LDL, 110 (calculated); total cholesterol, 220; and non-HDL,180. She takes only metformin. Would you consider more aggressive treatment of... More »

April 12, 2012

Podcast: Bariatric Surgery Bests Medical Therapy Alone in Obese Patients with Diabetes

Bariatric surgery nearly cures type 2 diabetes—at least that’s what results of a new study seem to imply. The study,... More »

March 23, 2012

Insulin or Incretin Becomes Insulin and Incretin

Incretin-based therapy for type 2 diabetes has quickly found advocates among busy primary care physicians. Now that QD... More »

March 9, 2012

Call to Rethink Dangers of Beta-Blockers in Comorbid Diabetes and Heart Failure

Researchers revisit the question in an observational study, concluding that beta blockers do not increase these risks and should not be withheld from people who have both heart failure and type 2 diabetes. More »

March 5, 2012

Diabetes Quiz Wrap-up: How Best to Manage "Jose"?

Do you consider an LDL of 100 and a non-HDL of 150 significant? What is your diagnosis? Would you consider medication in addition to recommending lifestyle changes? Answers to these quiz questions here. More »

March 2, 2012

Evidence That Exercise Forestalls Effects of Diabetes -- Future and Present

It can reduce the risk that pre-diabetes will progress to microvascular disease, delay the need for medication if it does, and counteract the adverse effects of insulin. More »

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DIABETES AND MENTAL HEALTH

Mental Health Issues in Persons With Diabetes and Related Disorders
• Cultural and Ethnic Issues in Psychopharmacology: Addressing Both Instrumental and Symbolic Effects of Treatment
• Diabetes May Compromise a Mother’s Mental Health
• Examining the Link Between Obesity and Mental Illness

Depression and Diabetes
• Obesity and Psychiatric Disorders Associations—and Best Treatment Options
• EASD: Studies Link Depression and Type 2 Diabetes
• Sweet Sorrow: The Relationship Between Depression and Diabetes Mellitus
• Depression in Adults With Diabetes

Comorbidities Associated With Treatment
• Weight Gain and Metabolic Changes in Children and Adolescents Treated With Atypical Antipsychotics
• The Impact of Abnormal Insulin Levels on Cognitive Function in Older Adults

MULTIMEDIA

Podcast: Insulin Resistance—Not Just a Biochemical Phenomenon
October 14, 2011

Dr Robert Gabbay discusses strategies to improve patient compliance with insulin therapy.

Podcast: Does Your Patient Have Type I or Type II Diabetes?
June 17, 2011

How can you determine whether your patient with newly diagnosed diabetes has type I or type II disease?

Podcast: Group Visits for Diabetes: How to Help Patients Better Control Their Disease
March 23, 2010

Only 7% of patients with diabetes have reached goals for hemoglobin A1c, LDL cholesterol, and blood pressure. What can be done to help more patients achieve their goals? In this 2-part interview, Dr Edward Shahady shows how group visits can help your patients with diabetes better control their disease and reduce their risk of diabetic complications.

JOURNAL SCAN

Comorbid dyslipidaemia and diabetes, but not antipsychotic use, is associated with unexplained sudden death among psychiatric patients

ebmh.bmj.com - 5/1/12

Evid Based Mental Health. 2012; 15: 30 doi: 10.1136/ebmental-2011-100335. Aetiology. Comorbid dyslipidaemia and diabetes, but not antipsychotic use, is associated with unexplained sudden death among psychiatric patients. ... Aetiology: Comorbid

Depression 3 and 9 months after discharge is less common in cardiac patients who are receiving statins at discharge

ebmh.bmj.com - 5/1/12

36), neuroticism ( assessed using the International Personality Item Pool Representation of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory), history of depression, smoking, diabetes, body mass index, disease severity ( defined using left ventricular ejection

Multicondition collaborative care intervention for people with coronary heart disease and/or diabetes, depression and poor control of hypertension, blood sugar or hypercholesterolemia improves disability and quality of life compared with usual car

ebm.bmj.com - 4/17/12

Evid Based Med. doi: 10.1136/ebmed-2012-100570. Therapeutics. Randomised controlled trial. Multicondition collaborative care intervention for people with coronary heart disease and/or diabetes, depression and poor control of ... diabetes and/or coronary

Hormone contraceptives and how the body uses carbohydrates in women without diabetes | Cochrane Summaries

summaries.cochrane.org - 4/18/12

Hormone contraceptives may change how the body handles carbohydrates (starches and sugars). Changes may include lower ability to use sugar from food and more problems with the body's insulin. Insulin is a hormone that helps the body use sugar. Problems ...

Heart Failure's Link to Diabetes [Lab Reports]

jama.ama-assn.org - 3/6/12

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