Diabetes Gateway
Welcome to BioMed Central's Diabetes Gateway, featuring articles from our journals within this field as well as useful resources and news items.
Articles
-
Critical Care 2013, 17:R37Diabetes impacts risk of death from dysglycemia
Diabetic status affects the relationship between mortality and dysglycemia in critically ill patients, with non-diabetic patients having an increased risk of death in comparison to diabetics.
-
BMC Medicine 2013, 11:58Implications of drug-induced changes
Allan Sniderman and George Thanassoulis comment on a meta-analysis showing reduction of testosterone by statins, but argue that range of changes rather than average changes need to be considered when measuring the effects of specific drugs.
-
BMC Medicine 2013, 11:57Statins reduce testosterone levels
According to a meta-analysis, treatment with statins, a drug commonly prescribed to patients at risk of cardiovascular disease, can reduce testosterone levels in both men and women, although the cause for this needs to be determined by further studies.
-
BMC Medicine 2013, 11:45Glucose-based diagnosis superior for diabetes
The predictive ability of a screening tool for diabetes is reduced when the proposed new hemoglobin-based criteria are used for diagnosis instead of glucose, suggesting that glucose should be measured to assess diabetes risk using this score.
-
BMC Medicine 2013, 11:46Microbiota differ in children with diabetes
Gut microbiota are present at lower quantity and have different composition in children with type 1 diabetes compared with healthy children, possibly due to altered gut permeability, and modification of these bacteria could control diabetes development.
AuthorMapper
Authors of BioMed Central diabetes-related articles, by location
Powered by AuthorMapper.com
Author profile
News from around the web
- 28 February 2013
- Cardiometabolic risk prevention opportunity in early schizophrenia
- 28 February 2013
- GLP-1 pancreatitis concerns justified
- 07 February 2013
- Diabetic peripheral neuropathy risk highlighted in children


