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Archived News
December 8th 2008
 
 
  Draft ISPAD clinical practice consensus guidelines 2007-2008
  Further draft guidelines have been added to this set of guidelines being developed by the International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (Diabetes Specialist Library, NHS)
   
  Glucose Intolerance and Cardiometabolic Risk in Children Exposed to Maternal Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in Utero
  Maternal gestational diabetes mellitus increases the offspring's cardiometabolic risk, and in utero hyperinsulinemia is an independent predictor of abnormal glucose tolerance in childhood (Pediatrics)
   
  Web-based Collaborative Care for Type 2 Diabetes: a Pilot Randomized Trial
  Care management delivered through secure patient Web communications improved glycemic control in type 2 diabetes (Diabetes Care)
   
  A full accounting of diabetes and prediabetes in the U.S. population, 1988–1994 and 2005–2006
  Over 40% of persons age >=20 years have hyperglycemic conditions. Prevalence is higher in minorities. Diagnosed diabetes has increased over time, but other conditions have been relatively stable (Diabetes Care)
   
  Inhaled insulin back in limelight with MannKind's Afresa
  Just as a whole host of drugmakers have abandoned inhaled insulin, the USA’s MannKind Corp has presented some promising late-stage data which suggests that Afresa is as safe and effective as injection therapy (PharmaTimes)
   
  Medical management of hyperglycaemia in type 2 diabetes mellitus
  A consensus statement from the (Diabetologia)
   
  Glucokinase, the pancreatic glucose sensor, is not the gut glucose sensor
  Our data suggest a reduction in potentiation of insulin secretion by glucose that is independent of differences in incretin hormone release (Diabetologia)
   
 
  
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