Using Hand Grip Strength to Screen for Diabetes in Healthy Individuals
Assessment of hand grip strength may be used as a simple tool to easily identify adults at increased risk for type 2 diabetes.
Assessment of hand grip strength may be used as a simple tool to easily identify adults at increased risk for type 2 diabetes.
Adults diagnosed with type 2 diabetes between the ages of 21 and 44 years have higher initial hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) levels and a lower likelihood of achieving glycemic control within one year of diagnosis versus patients diagnosed in middle age.
Applying functional data analysis to continuous glucose monitoring data can assist in identifying differences in maternal glucose control during pregnancy, which might go unnoticed using standard metrics.
Patients taking glucocorticoids are at a high risk if they are infected with SARS-CoV-2, according to an editorial article from the Endocrine Society.
In the COVID-19 pandemic, there are specific considerations that should be made for patients with diabetes, who are at greater risk for severe infection.
Focused prevention and treatment of noncommunicable diseases may reduce the burden of multimorbidity in people living with HIV who have mood disorders and multimorbidity.
One in 10 older adults hospitalized for common medical conditions are discharged with intensified diabetes medications, despite the fact that nearly half are unlikely to benefit from the intensification.
Plasma levels of high-sensitivity cardiac troponins can improve the stratification of mortality risk beyond the comorbidity burden in older adults with diabetes.
Individuals with diabetes are at increased risk for acute mesenteric ischemia, an emergency vascular complication.
Diabetes-related lower-extremity complications (DRLECs) are a large and increasing contributor to the global burden of disability.