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Most people with long-duration type 1 diabetes in a large population-based study are insulin microsecretors
(Diabetes Care, 2015-02-01)OBJECTIVE: Small studies using ultrasensitive C-peptide assays suggest endogenous insulin secretion is frequently detectable in patients with long-standing type 1 diabetes (T1D), but these studies do not use representative ... -
Can clinical features be used to differentiate type 1 from type 2 diabetes? A systematic review of the literature
(BMJ, 2015-11-02)OBJECTIVE: Clinicians predominantly use clinical features to differentiate type 1 from type 2 diabetes yet there are no evidence-based clinical criteria to aid classification of patients. Misclassification of diabetes is ... -
A Type 1 Diabetes Genetic Risk Score Can Aid Discrimination Between Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes in Young Adults
(Diabetes Care, 2015-11-17)OBJECTIVE: With rising obesity, it is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between type 1 diabetes (T1D) and type 2 diabetes (T2D) in young adults. There has been substantial recent progress in identifying the ... -
Lower Circulating B12 Is Associated with Higher Obesity and Insulin Resistance during Pregnancy in a Non-Diabetic White British Population
(PLoS One, 2015-08-19)OBJECTIVE: Vitamin B12 and folate are critical micronutrients needed to support the increased metabolic demands of pregnancy. Recent studies from India have suggested that low vitamin B12 and folate concentrations in ... -
Markers of beta-Cell Failure Predict Poor Glycemic Response to GLP-1 Receptor Agonist Therapy in Type 2 Diabetes
(Diabetes Care, 2015-08-04)OBJECTIVE: To assess whether clinical characteristics and simple biomarkers of beta-cell failure are associated with individual variation in glycemic response to GLP-1 receptor agonist (GLP-1RA) therapy in patients with ... -
Recognition and Management of Individuals With Hyperglycemia Because of a Heterozygous Glucokinase Mutation
(Diabetes Care, 2015-07)Glucokinase-maturity-onset diabetes of the young (GCK-MODY), also known as MODY2, is caused by heterozygous inactivating mutations in the GCK gene. GCK gene mutations are present in approximately 1 in 1,000 of the population, ... -
Adherence to Oral Glucose-Lowering Therapies and Associations With 1-Year HbA1c: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis in a Large Primary Care Database.
(American Diabetes Association, 2016-02)The impact of taking oral glucose-lowering medicines intermittently, rather than as recommended, is unclear. We conducted a retrospective cohort study using community-acquired U.K. clinical data (Clinical Practice Research ... -
Maternal hypothyroxinaemia in pregnancy is associated with obesity and adverse maternal metabolic parameters.
(BioScientifica, 2016-01)Subclinical hypothyroidism and isolated hypothyroxinaemia in pregnancy have been associated with an increased risk of gestational diabetes. We aimed to ascertain if these women have a worse metabolic phenotype than euthyroid ... -
Time to change the HbA1c cut-off for prediabetes
(Wiley, 2016-03-01)