Diabetic complications

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Juarez LD et al. Diabetes Res Clin Prac 2018. doi: 10.1016/j.diabres.2018.05.009

Advisory Board member Pamela Dyson underlines the key features for healthcare professionals working in diabetes education, diabetes management, type 2 diabetes prevention, and cardiovascular risk reduction.

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Data from the US NHANES show that a high proportion of adults with prediabetes also have cardiovascular and renal risk factors.

The risk for cardiovascular disease and death is higher among individuals with prediabetes defined by glycated hemoglobin level compared with fasting plasma glucose or 2-hour plasma glucose, study data show.

Research shows that changes in markers of the metabolic syndrome and fatty liver disease are present more than 20 years before people receive a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes.

Scheen AJ. Curr Diab Rep 2018; 18: 6. doi: 10.1007/s11892-018-0976-6

Results of a longitudinal study show that diabetes and poor glycemic control are associated with long-term cognitive decline among older people in the UK.

Kaplan A et al. Heart Fail Rev 2018; 23: 419–437. doi: 10.1007/s10741-017-9665-9

Research shows that the largest long-term reductions in microvascular complications around 20 years after bariatric surgery for obesity are seen among patients who had prediabetes at the time of surgery.

Jay Shubrook, Chair of the American Diabetes Association’s Primary Care Advisory Group, outlines what's new in 2017's ADA Standards of Care update. 

Prediabetes measures are highly variable in their sensitivity and specificity for predicting the long-term risk of diabetes and its major clinical complications, shows an analysis of the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities cohort.

Analysis of the Maastricht study reveals microvascular dysfunction in the eyes and skin of people with prediabetes.

​​​​​​​Nat Rev Endocrinol 2017; 13: 36–49. doi: 10.1038/nrendo.2016.135