The European Society of Cardiology has published new guidelines covering diabetes, people at high risk of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.
Developed in collaboration with the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), they were published online on Saturday, August 31, by the European Heart Journal.
Healthcare professionals are being urged to help people with type 2 diabetes to meet their three treatment targets as it could save the NHS more than £727 million across a decade.
The study, supported from the Nuffield Department of Population Health at the University of Oxford and Diabetes UK, showed that those who met their treatment targets lowered their risk of developing diabetes-related complications by £1,037 per person.
An “immersive digital environment” is being rolled out across Portsmouth in a bid to increase diabetes care in hospital.
Healthcare professionals are being given the opportunity to learn more about diabetes-related complications by using a virtual reality training system.
Spaces are now available to attend the first-ever Low Carb Program webinar to help healthcare professionals better understand the principles of the Low Carb Program and how it can be used to support sustainable type 2 diabetes remission.
A maximum of 500 places have been allocated for the event on Friday, September 13, which will be hosted by Dr Campbell Murdoch, Chief Medical Officer at Diabetes Digital Media (DDM), and Tara Kelly, Lead Dietitian at DDM.
The NHS Diabetes Programme has been unveiled as a major partner of Diabetes Professional Care 2019 (DPC2019) and will host an interactive lounge at the October show, it has been announced.
It will be manned by NHS staff and has been developed to give healthcare professionals working in diabetes care and type 2 prevention a place to access the latest NHS information, resources and guidelines.
A standardised framework for the local commissioning of dental services for people with diabetes has been published by NHS England and NHS Improvement.
This document, Commissioning Standard: Dental Care for People with Diabetes, has been developed in recognition of the link between gum disease and diabetes.
A national campaign to raise awareness of the Low Carb Program has reached more than eight million people.
Over the course of five days The Sun newspaper issued pull outs about the award-winning programme, which was developed by Diabetes Digital Media (DDM)
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A team of researchers have “shattered the prevailing assumption that glucose was the culprit” of inflammation behind type 2 diabetes.To read more, click here.
A study day for healthcare professionals to learn about DIY artificial pancreas systems and type 1 diabetes takes place this month. To read more, click here.
Forxiga (dapagliflozin) 10mg, on top of standard of care, reduced the incidence of cardiovascular death or the worsening of heart failure, according to the first detailed results from the landmark Phase III DAPA-HF trial.
DAPA-HF is the first outcomes trial with an SGLT2 inhibitor investigating the treatment of heart failure in patients with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) with and without type 2 diabetes, AstraZeneca has announced. The detailed results were presented on September 1 at the ESC Congress 2019 in Paris, France.
The association between blood glucose levels and risks of organ impairment in people with type 1 diabetes can make a vital contribution to diabetes care, according to researchers.
The Swedish study, published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) involved looking at the health data of more than 10,000 adults and children with type 1 diabetes using the Swedish Diabetes Register.
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