Type 2 diabetes

S Chatterjee, K Khunti, MJ Davies - The lancet, 2017 - thelancet.com
Summary 415 million people live with diabetes worldwide, and an estimated 193 million
people have undiagnosed diabetes. Type 2 diabetes accounts for more than 90% of patients …

[HTML][HTML] Metformin: Is it a drug for all reasons and diseases?

CR Triggle, I Mohammed, K Bshesh, I Marei, K Ye… - Metabolism, 2022 - Elsevier
Metformin was first used to treat type 2 diabetes in the late 1950s and in 2022 remains the
first-choice drug used daily by approximately 150 million people. An accumulation of …

Heart failure in type 2 diabetes mellitus: impact of glucose-lowering agents, heart failure therapies, and novel therapeutic strategies

HC Kenny, ED Abel - Circulation research, 2019 - Am Heart Assoc
Patients with diabetes mellitus have> 2× the risk for developing heart failure (HF; HF with
reduced ejection fraction and HF with preserved ejection fraction). Cardiovascular …

Polypharmacy in the aging patient: a review of glycemic control in older adults with type 2 diabetes

KJ Lipska, H Krumholz, T Soones, SJ Lee - Jama, 2016 - jamanetwork.com
Importance There is substantial uncertainty about optimal glycemic control in older adults
with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Observations Four large randomized clinical trials (RCTs) …

Management of preexisting diabetes in pregnancy: a review

AS Alexopoulos, R Blair, AL Peters - Jama, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The presence of preexisting type 1 or type 2 diabetes in pregnancy increases
the risk of adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes, such as preeclampsia, cesarean …

Genetics insights in the relationship between type 2 diabetes and coronary heart disease

MO Goodarzi, JI Rotter - Circulation research, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
Diabetes mellitus is a major risk factor for coronary heart disease (CHD). The major form of
diabetes mellitus is type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D), which is thus largely responsible for the …

A comprehensive diagnostic approach to detect underlying causes of obesity in adults

ES van der Valk, ELT van den Akker, M Savas… - Obesity …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Obesity is a worldwide growing problem. When confronted with obesity, many health care
providers focus on direct treatment of the consequences of adiposity. We plead for adequate …

Therapy of type 2 diabetes

R Landgraf, J Aberle, AL Birkenfeld… - Experimental and …, 2024 - thieme-connect.com
Change 2: On the basis of current data, the various risk factors and their structured
assessment (including the increasing importance of fatty liver) for the development of …

[HTML][HTML] Place of sulfonylureas in the management of type 2 diabetes mellitus in South Asia: A consensus statement

S Kalra, AH Aamir, A Raza, AK Das… - Indian journal of …, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Since their introduction in clinical practice in the 1950's, Sulfonylureas (SUs) have remained
the main-stay of pharmacotherapy in the management of type 2 diabetes. Despite their well …

Sulfonylureas as second line drugs in type 2 diabetes and the risk of cardiovascular and hypoglycaemic events: population based cohort study

A Douros, S Dell'Aniello, OHY Yu, KB Filion, L Azoulay… - bmj, 2018 - bmj.com
Objective To assess whether adding or switching to sulfonylureas is associated with an
increased risk of myocardial infarction, ischaemic stroke, cardiovascular death, all cause …