Diabetes News June 17th 2011

Management of adults with diabetes undergoing surgery and elective procedures: improving standard
The aim of the guidelines is to improve standards of care for people with diabetes undergoing operative or investigative procedures requiring a period of starvation (NHS Diabetes)

Open letter from ABCD to Mr Andrew Lansley MP
As an organization representing 70% of UK Specialist Diabetes Physicians, we firmly believe that involvement of clinicians in commissioning of health care is the correct strategy to facilitate both the development and provision of high quality care for patients that is evidence-based and cost-effective (Association of British Clinical Diabetologists)

The quality of diabetes care: A comparison between patients enrolled and not enrolled on a regional diabetes register
Well-organised centralised diabetes registers provide additional benefits for people with diabetes care. Up to date primary care registers with good call–recall systems are necessary for the delivery of effective structured diabetes care (Primary Care Diabetes)

Effect of Nurse Case Management Compared With Usual Care on Controlling Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Patients With Diabetes
In patients with diabetes, nurse case managers using a treatment algorithm can effectively improve the number of individuals with control of multiple cardiovascular risk factors at 1 year (Diabetes Care)

Youth and Parent Knowledge and Communication About Major Complications of Type 1 Diabetes – Associations With Diabetes Outcomes
Optimistic family communication about MC, more so than MC knowledge, predicted favorable T1D outcomes. Longitudinal studies are needed to confirm these associations and to evaluate pertinent psychoeducational interventions (Diabetes Care)

Glycated albumin but not HbA1c reflects glycaemic control in patients with neonatal diabetes mellitus
GA is a useful indicator of glycaemic control in patients with NDM, whereas HbA1c is influenced by age-related changes in HbF and does not accurately reflect glycaemic control (Diabetologia)

Etiological Approach to Characterization of Diabetes Type
The SEARCH study offers researchers and clinicians a practical application for the etiologic classification of diabetes type and at the same time identifies a group of youths who would benefit from further testing (Diabetes Care)

Thymic Self-Antigen Expression for the Design of a Negative/Tolerogenic Self-Vaccine against Type 1 Diabetes
The thymus plays a central role in the establishment of central immunological self-tolerance towards Langerhans’ insulin-secreting islet ß cells, and there is now evidence that T1D development results from a breakdown of thymus-dependent tolerance to insulin family-derived epitopes (Clinical and Developmental Immunology)

Automatic Analysis of Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy using Multi-scale Quantitative Morphology of Nerve Fibres in Corneal Confocal Microscopy Imaging
An evaluation of clinical effectiveness shows that the performance of the automated system matches that of ground-truth defined by expert manual annotation (Radiology Source)

InsuLinx
Abbott’s FreeStyle InsuLinx Blood Glucose Monitoring System with Insulin Calculator Now Available (Abbott)

Update on ongoing European review of pioglitazone–containing medicines
Suspension of use of these medicines in France while Europe-wide review continues (European Medicines Agency)

Tradjenta
Boehringer Ingelheim and Lilly’s new type 2 diabetes treatment Tradjenta™ (linagliptin) tablets for adults now available in U.S. pharmacies (PRN Newswire)