Eric S. Kilpatrick

TL;DR: Members of the International Expert Committee have recommended that diabetes should be diagnosed if A1C is ≤6.5%, without need to measure the plasma glucose concentration, but there are concerns that practical limitations will lead to false positives and negatives with this approach.

TL;DR: Higher insulin resistance at baseline in the DCCT (as estimated by eGDR) was associated with increased subsequent risk of both micro- and macrovascular complications, and insulin dose and the presence of IDF-defined metabolic syndrome were poor predictors by comparison.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of HbA1c variability on the risk of retinopathy and nephropathy in patients with type 1 diabetes was analyzed using multivariate Cox regression.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of glucose variability on the risk of retinopathy and nephropathy in patients with type 1 diabetes was analyzed using multivariate Cox regression, and it was shown that within-day and between-day variability in blood glucose around a patient's mean value has no influence on the development or progression of either retinopathies (P = 0.18 and P =0.72, respectively) or nephropharmasy (P < 0.57).

TL;DR: Results show that dietary supplementation with soy phytoestrogens favorably alters insulin resistance, glycemic control, and serum lipoproteins in postmenopausal women with type 2 diabetes, thereby improving their cardiovascular risk profile.