Session attendance was only moderate and self-monitoring very poor in youths with type 2 diabetes who participated in the TODAY lifestyle programme, an analysis shows.

The association between hyperglycemia and cardiovascular disease is increasingly mediated by traditional cardiovascular risk factors as patients with type 1 diabetes age, researchers report.

Linagliptin significantly improves glycemic control in individuals with type 2 diabetes and early-stage kidney disease, but fails to significantly ameliorate glomerular damage, show findings from the MARLINA-T2D trial.

Failure to conduct an oral glucose tolerance test results in the underdiagnosis of type 2 diabetes, suggests research.

The best-performing primary care practices achieve glycemic control in their patients with type 2 diabetes without increasing expenditure on medication, suggest findings from the UK diabetes audit.

A analysis from the DIAMOND trial suggests that adding an insulin pump to continuous glucose monitoring leads to better glycemic control, but at the price of more hypoglycemia.

Read the linked commentary from Leonard Bertheau.