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Addressing Diabetes at the Crossroads of Global Pandemic and Regional Culture Comment on “The Curse of Wealth – Middle Eastern Countries Need to Address the Rapidly Rising Burden of Diabetes”

As diabetes and obesity rates continue to climb at astronomical rates in the Middle East, future generationsare at an even greater risk for diabetes and the associated complications. Many factors are at play and it isclear that creative solutions are needed to retool provider resources in the Middle East towards preventionof diabetes and its complications while leveraging technology to maximize...

Taxing Sugar-Sweetened Beverages: Not a “Holy Grail” but a Cup at Least Half; Comment on “Food Taxes: A New Holy Grail?”

In this commentary, we argue for the implementation of a sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) tax as a tool to help address the global obesity and diabetes epidemics. Consumption of SSBs has increased exponentially over the last several decades, a trend that has been an important contributor to the obesity and diabetes epidemics. Prior evidence demonstrates that a SSB tax will likely decrease SSB con...

Mitigating Severe Hypoglycemia by Initiating Inpatient Continuous Glucose Monitoring for Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus.

 Continuous glucose monitoring for type 1 diabetes mellitus will go forward for refinement as a systematic review. The scope of this topic, including populations, interventions, comparators, and outcomes, will be further developed in the refinement phase.  When key questions have been drafted, they will be posted on the AHRQ Web site and open for public comment. To sign up for notification wh...

Report of the Committee of the Japan Diabetes Society on the Research of Fulminant and Acute‐onset Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: New diagnostic criteria of fulminant type 1 diabetes mellitus (2012)

We have revised a part of the diagnostic criteria for fulminant type 1 diabetes. The new criteria were set both to express the essence of this disease of rapid increase of patients' blood glucose and to be highly sensitive to reduce the misdiagnosis. After analyzing the data of 382 patients with newly-diagnosed fulminant type 1 diabetes, we adopted the glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) level of 8.7% ...

Comment on "Type 1 diabetes in BioBreeding rats is critically linked to an imbalance between Th17 and regulatory T cells and an altered TCR repertoire".