Medicine Matters Diabetes

Suboptimal medication-taking identified through urine testing is associated with a higher prevalence of microvascular and macrovascular complications in people with type 2 diabetes than found with consistent usage, report researchers.

A majority of adults with clinically diagnosed type 1 diabetes but no islet autoantibodies have a low genetic risk for the condition, suggesting misdiagnosis, report researchers.

People with type 2 diabetes who have trigger finger are likely at an increased risk for cardiovascular disease, say researchers.

Adding dapagliflozin to standard care improves outcomes for people with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction irrespective of sex, suggests a prespecified subgroup analysis of the DAPA-HF trial.

Flash glucose monitoring is associated with small but sustained improvements in glycemic control and a reduction in severe hypoglycemia relative to self-monitoring of blood glucose in type 1 diabetes, observational data show.