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Reduced Hospitalization Among People With Diabetes With Multi-Season Influenza Vaccination

By

Zahra Masoud

July 27, 2020

Influenza hospitalizations were decreased among people with diabetes when vaccines were received in multiple influenza seasons.

Improved Health Outcomes Noted with Dulaglutide Therapy

COVID19

Lilly Introduces Insulin Value Program in Response to COVID-19

By

Brian Park, PharmD

April 14, 2020

Lilly announced the launch of its Insulin Value Program to assist patients with or without commercial insurance with filling their monthly insulin prescriptions for $35.

HIV/AIDS

Mood Disorders With HIV Increase Risk for Noncommunicable Disease

By

Zahra Masoud

March 31, 2020

Focused prevention and treatment of noncommunicable diseases may reduce the burden of multimorbidity in people living with HIV who have mood disorders and multimorbidity.

Prevention

Antimalarials May Cut Risk for Type 2 Diabetes in Lupus Patients

March 12, 2020

Adherence to antimalarials may offer a protective effect against type 2 diabetes mellitus among patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.

HIV/AIDS

Detecting and Predicting Progression of Subclinical Vascular Damage in PLWHIV

By

Sweta Gupta

February 18, 2020

While current cardiovascular risk scores can identify subclinical vascular damage in people living with HIV, they fail to predict progression of such damage.

Prevention

Risk for Skin Infections, Diabetes Increase With Statin Use

December 1, 2019

Study shows mechanism of statins can induce onset of diabetes

Hepatitis

Inverse Association Between Cannabis Use and Diabetes in Chronic HCV Infection

By

Rachael Beairsto

November 13, 2019

In a large cross-sectional study of patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, cannabis use was inversely associated with diabetes.

Prevention

Trends in Rates of Hospitalized Infections Among Adults With Diabetes vs Those Without

By

Infectious Disease Advisor Contributing Writer

November 7, 2019

There is a need to improve infectious risk mitigation in adults with diabetes because they are hospitalized for infections between 2.6 and 15.7 times as often as adults without diabetes, depending on the type of infection.

Mycoses

Higher Frequency of C albicans After Root Canals in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes

By

Bradley van Paridon

October 29, 2019

Patients with a long-term history of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) carried Candida albicans in their dental root canals more frequently when they have a primary endodontic infection.

Influenza

Patients With T2DM Who Have Flu More Likely to Be Hospitalized

October 17, 2019

The risk for hospitalization with pandemic influenza is higher for patients with type 2 diabetes than for those without type 2 diabetes.