Diabetes & Endocrinology News

• Prediabetes, Diabetes Screening Criteria Miss Half of Patients Current diabetes screening criteria miss half of patients with diabetes and prediabetes; using an expanded version could identify many more high-risk individuals.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2018
• Skeletal Muscle Mitochondria Altered in Type 1 Diabetes
  Reuters Health Information, April 2018
• IM 2018Improving Outcomes Will Take More Than Clinical Care After Katrina, the New Orleans healthcare system had to be rebuilt. Partnerships with governments, churches, and social services led to the creation of an inventive, more resilient system.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2018
• Higher LDL, CV Risk Magnify Expected LDL-Lowering Clinical Gains The observation can inform shared decision-making when clinicians are considering intensified LDL-cholesterol management, for example, adding PCSK9 inhibitors to statins, say researchers.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2018
• Personalized Letter Aids Those With Gestational Diabetes Women with gestational diabetes who received a customized letter upon diagnosis listing recommendations regarding expected weight gain were significantly more likely to meet national guidelines, a study finds.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2018
• Improved Pancreatic Survival Seen After Neoadjuvant Therapy and Surgery
  Reuters Health Information, April 2018
• Eplerenone Improves Some Metabolic Indices in HIV
  Reuters Health Information, April 2018
• Ambulatory 24-Hour BP Monitoring Best Predicts Mortality The largest study ever conducted of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring shows 24-hour measures predict mortality much better than do office measurements and should now be routine, researchers say.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2018
• Timing Cortisol Therapy Could Improve Adrenal Insufficiency Giving cortisol replacement therapy in a pattern that mimics normal rhythms of human secretion could result in better sleep quality and cognitive function compared with standard dosing, say UK researchers.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2018
• Poor Sleep Quality During Menopause Tied to Increased Inflammation Middle aged women who get poor quality sleep have elevated levels of inflammatory markers, suggesting their risk for heart disease and other illnesses may be increased, U.S. researchers say.
  Reuters Health Information, April 2018
• SIRSAntipsychotics May Alter Thyroid Function Patients with severe mental disorders are more likely to be in either a hypothyroid or a hyperthyroid state than others, say Norwegian scientists, who found that antipsychotic use may affect thyroid function.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2018
• Do You Recommend Prescriptive Diets to Your Patients? Diets that purport to mitigate health symptoms are gaining popularity.
  Medscape Reader Polls, April 2018
• ACA Mandate Reduced Out-of-Pocket Cost for IUDs, Upped Use Women with health plans that eliminated previously high out-of-pocket costs associated with IUD placement after the ACA mandate for contraceptive coverage saw the biggest increases in IUD use.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2018
• Two New Drug Classes Tied to Better Survival in Type 2 Diabetes Based on a network meta-analysis, SGLT-2 inhibitors and GLP-1 agonists may be preferred over DPP-4 inhibitors as add-on therapies to metformin for type 2 diabetes, researchers report.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2018
• Again, Endocrinologists' Pay Ranks Near the Bottom As in 2017, endocrinologists were again the third-lowest paid of 29 specialties in Medscape's Physician Compensation Survey, but unlike last year, their pay actually dropped in 2018.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2018
• Pharmacist-Prescribed Birth Control Still Hard to Find Despite legislation permitting them to prescribe contraceptives, only a small minority of California pharmacists offer this service, the results of a new survey show.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2018
• HMExperts Bust Myths About Working With NPs and PAs Medicare recognized the services of advanced practice providers 20 years ago, but their roles are still not fully understood, and some hospital bylaws haven't caught up.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2018
• ILC 2018Poverty Harms Patients With Diabetes, Fatty Liver When patients with diabetes and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease cannot consistently afford a healthy diet, the risk for advanced hepatic fibrosis is elevated, new research shows.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2018
• Testosterone Replacement Improves Sexual Outcomes in Hypogonadal Men
  Reuters Health Information, April 2018
• USPSTF: Exercise, Not Supplements, for Preventing Falls The US Preventive Services Task Force's new recommendations advised exercise, but not calcium and vitamin D supplementation, for preventing falls and fractures.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2018