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Novel Long-Acting Insulin Causes Less Hypoglycemia
Major Finding: Compared with glargine, there was a 21% lower rate of overall confirmed hypoglycemic episodes with degludec, and a 52% lower rate...
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Add-On Glargine Bests Sitagliptin for Regaining Glucose Control
Major Finding: Hemoglobin A1c, 8.5% for both groups at baseline, was reduced to a significantly greater extent with insulin glargine than with...
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SEARCH Turns Up More Diabetes in Youth
Major Finding: From 2001 to 2009, the prevalence of type 1 diabetes rose 23% among American youth aged 20 years and younger.
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Aggressive BP Lowering in Diabetes No Boost to CVD Outcomes
Major Finding: Cardiovascular disease outcomes did not vary between people with diabetes mellitus whose blood pressure was treated to less than...
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Rapid HbA1c Rise in a Child? Intensify Treatment Fast
Major Finding: Blood glucose increased from 5.7% to 7.3% in children with type 2 diabetes who responded to long-term treatment, but rose from 6.4...
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Exenatide Bests Glimepiride as a Metformin Add-On
Major Finding: Inadequate glycemic control was reached by 41% of patients on exenatide compared with 54% taking glimepiride, in addition to...
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Early, Aggressive Glucose Control in Prediabetes Key
Major Finding: Compared with 1,096 patients from a multicenter, randomized controlled trial who consistently had prediabetes, the risk of diabetes...
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Systematic QI Strategies Lift all Boats in Diabetes Care
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Statin Doesn't Impair Colesevelam's Glucose-Lowering Ability
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Hyperbaric Oxygen Improves Diabetic Ulcers Regardless of Glycemia
Major Finding: Wound volume was reduced by 65% among the 12 patients with hemoglobin A1c less than 7.5%, and by 71% among the 10 with Hb A1c 7.5%...
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Gene Expression Classifier Identifies Which 'Indeterminate' Thyroid Nodules are Benign
Major Finding: Among the entire group of 265 indeterminate FNA analyses, 180 were benign and 85 malignant. The gene expression classifier...