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How Much Evidence Do We Need to Change Practices in Which We Firmly Believe?

Enough already! Randomized trials show that tight glucose control in patients with long-standing type 2 diabetes isn't beneficial.

Reduced Innervation of Sweat Glands in Diabetic Neuropathy

A novel technique to quantify nerves around sweat glands allows identification of reduced innervation in diabetic neuropathy that correlates with neuropathy severity.

Investigational Once-Daily Incretin Mimetic Outperforms Twice-Daily Exenatide

In this study, liraglutide had clinical advantages and was more convenient to use.

ACE Inhibitors and ARBs for Preventing Nephropathy and Retinopathy in Type 1 Diabetes

Treatment did not prevent nephropathy but did prevent development of retinopathy.

Metabolic Changes in the Decade Before Diabetes

Could very early intervention prevent progression to prediabetes?

Cardiovascular Safety Data on Rosiglitazone Aren’t Entirely Reassuring

Although few significant differences were detected in a large cohort at 5 years, excess heart failure risk still is apparent.

Boning Up on Thiazolidinediones

Rosiglitazone was associated with excess fracture risk in women.

Medicare Part D, Prescription Drug Spending, and Total Medical Spending

In patients with little or no drug coverage before Part D enactment, additional drug costs during the program’s first 2 years were offset by reductions in other medical costs.

Scores Identify Patients at Risk for Diabetes

One third to one half of people with the highest diabetes risk scores developed diabetes within 10 years.

Using HbA1c Assay for Diagnosis of Diabetes

Hemoglobin A1c levels are as accurate as glucose measurements for defining the level of hyperglycemia at which retinopathy begins.

Macrosomia and Gestational Diabetes: Big and Sweet Is Not a Good Combination

Birthweight ≥4000 g is associated with increased risk for adverse perinatal outcomes, and the risk is further increased in mothers with gestational diabetes mellitus.

More Burn, Higher Return

An increase in the prescribed energy expenditure of a cardiac rehabilitation program improved cardiac risk profiles.

Fenofibrate Might Reduce Amputations Caused by Microvascular Disease in Patients with Diabetes

Nontraumatic amputations occurred significantly less often in patients who take fenofibrate.

Intensive Glucose Lowering and Adverse CV Outcomes in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

A meta-analysis suggests that intensive therapy beneficially affects rates of adverse coronary events but does not change rates of stroke or all-cause mortality during 10 years.

Rapid Weight Gain in Early Infancy Increases Risk for Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes

Infants with rapid weight gain had significantly greater body fat and waist circumference and reduced insulin sensitivity as adults, compared with infants with slow weight gain.

Treating Diabetes and Coronary Artery Disease

Prompt revascularization or initial medical therapy? Insulin sensitization or provision? From the BARI 2D trial, no strategy emerged a clear winner.

Duration of Anticoagulation Therapy After Deep Venous Thrombosis

In a randomized trial, the use of ultrasonography to guide treatment continuation reduced thrombosis recurrence.

Women and Nonobstructive Coronary Artery Disease

More evidence that the presence of ischemic symptoms without underlying obstructive arteriostenosis warrants heightened vigilance, if not intervention

Gene Therapy for Diabetic Neuropathy

Tentative evidence of the effectiveness of gene therapy with erythropoietin in an extensively studied animal model of diabetic neuropathy

Don’t Take Those Vitamins!

Exercise promotes health, but vitamins C and E block this benefit.

Hyperglycemia Can Increase Risk for Gastric Cancer

Patients with both high HbA1c levels and <$EMPH_O>Helicobacter pylori<$EMPH_C> infection are at dramatically elevated risk.

Antioxidant Supplements Blunt Exercise-Induced Improvement of Insulin Sensitivity

Regardless of their previous exercise patterns, young men did not benefit from vitamin E or C supplementation.

A New {alpha}-Glucosidase Inhibitor Prevents Diabetes in Patients at Risk

At 48 weeks, significantly more placebo recipients than voglibose recipients had progressed to diabetes.

Staying Ahead of Diabetes Risk

Healthy lifestyle factors were associated with substantially lower risk for new-onset diabetes in older adults.

Diabetes and Hypertension: Diseases Associated with Psoriasis

Two more systemic diseases are shown to be associated with psoriasis.

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