Managing Diabetes in a 68-Year-Old Patient: Benefits of Follow-Up and Combination Therapy

Millions of US adults could benefit from semaglutide treatment for diabetes, obesity, and/or CV disease but insurance isn't guaranteed and the drug is costly.

The patient, an active 49-year-old man, had an HbA1c of 8.6 after diabetes was first diagnosed. It’s now 7.6 with metformin and lifestyle measures. Is the current A1c goal adequate, or should you treat more aggressively?

The data, published in JASN, were presented last week to an FDA advisory committee considering recommending sotagliflozin as an adjunct to insulin in adults with T1D and CKD.

Hypoglycemia in type 2 diabetes patients can be the result of insulin or sulfonylureas.

Find details on challenges primary care clinicians face in treating older adults with T2D and an expert discussion on navigating treatments to delay T1D.

Find details on advances in the management of type 1 diabetes, utilization of CGM in primary care settings, and optimizing T2D management in older persons.