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Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a group of metabolic disorders marked by elevated blood glucose. It has many subtypes, including type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), gestational diabetes and neonatal diabetes; of these, T1DM and T2...
Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) is a disease with a complex aetiopathogenesis that leads to a wide variety of metabolic disorders. This includes, by definition, high plasma glucose levels, but also elevated blood pressure, dyslipidaemia, cardiorenal complications and strokes. All of ...
This opinion piece introduces a novel concept termed as “wellness endocrinology”. Wellness endocrinology can be defined as the discipline which utilizes knowledge of endocrine physiology and pharmacology to ensure optimal biopsychosocial health for the population at large. The authors describe ...
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has spread rapidly to become a global health threat. The disease is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), a novel β-coronavirus that belongs to a family of enveloped RNA viruses, the coronaviruses.1 While ...
Dr Jaime Davidson is a Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Touchstone Diabetes Research Center and a member of the executive committee on CME. He is the Past President of the Worldwide Initiative ...
Sanjay Kalra,1 Atul Kalhan,2 Zhanay A Akanov3 Department of Endocrinology, Bharti Hospital, Karnal, India Department of Endocrinology, Royal Glamorgan Hospital, Cardiff, UK Kazakh Society for Study of Diabetes, Kazakhstan The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has impacted human life in many ...
Globally, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are currently the leading cause of mortality and morbidity. Of the 56.4 million global deaths in 2015, nearly 39.5 million (70%) were due to NCDs.1 Mental health disorders are one of the known major contributors to NCD burden. They are ...
The overall association between obesity and type 2 diabetes is so linear and strong that a causal relationship between the two has traditionally been assumed.1 There are some questions, however, yet to be answered.2 The association of diabetic complications with obesity ...
Diabetes afflicts 9.4% of the US population with about 90–95% having type 2 diabetes (T2D) and another 33.9% of the US population having prediabetes (2017 data).1 In 2015, it was estimated that 23.8% of patients with diabetes and 88.4% of patients with prediabetes did not even ...
People with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) have a two- to four-fold increased risk for coronary heart disease compared to those without diabetes,1–3 as well as other vascular disorders (consisting of heart failure [HF], cardiac dysrhythmia, sudden death, hypertensive disease, ...
The LEADER (Liraglutide Effect and Action in Diabetes: Evaluation of Cardiovascular Outcome Results - A Long Term Evaluation) trial recently reported the cardiovascular (CV) benefits achieved with liraglutide therapy in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). In a multinational, randomised, doubleblind ...
Obesity has been declared a chronic disease by many organizations, with multiple complex drivers and adverse biological sequelae, commonly regarded as complications (see Figure 1).1,2 For most clinicians and the informed public, overweight and obesity are defined exclusively by a body ...
The LEADER (Liraglutide Effect and Action in Diabetes: Evaluation of Cardiovascular Outcome Results - A Long Term Evaluation) trial recently reported the cardiovascular (CV) benefits achieved with liraglutide therapy in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). In a multinational, randomised, doubleblind ...
Rationale for Development of a New Discipline Lifestyle medicine is a nascent discipline that has recently emerged as a systematized approach for management of chronic disease. The individual elements and skillsets that define lifestyle medicine are determined, in large part, ...
Rationale for Development of a New Discipline Lifestyle medicine is a nascent discipline that has recently emerged as a systematized approach for management of chronic disease. The individual elements and skillsets that define lifestyle medicine are determined, in large part, ...
Welcome to the latest edition of US Endocrinology, which features a diverse range of articles covering a number of therapeutic areas. This issue has a strong emphasis on diabetes and begins by posing the question: given the dramatic increase in ...
Thomas Sydenham, the great English seventeenth-century physician (see Figure 1), said that “A man is as old as his arteries”, a concept that has once again come into focus of cardiovascular research and clinical activities, which this review aims to describe. ...
Diabetes is a metabolic disorder, characterised by hyperglycaemia and associated disturbances, which results from defects in insulin secretion, action or a combination of both. Type 1 diabetes is associated with complete or relative insulin deficiency related to autoimmune-mediated destruction of pancreatic ...
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