Diabetes Gateway

Diabetes 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.

Implications 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.

Statins 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.

Glucose-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.

 

Microbiota 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.