Biomedicines
June 2025
. Diabetic peripheral neuropathy is a debilitating disease-related complication with a significant impact on quality of life. Its management represents a therapeutic challenge.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Fear of pain during insulin injection, using pen injectors, still represents a barrier to diabetes treatment. The development of smaller and thinner needles has improved comfort during the injection, but the influence of other needle geometry features, has been less thoroughly assessed. The aim of this review, is to evaluate the role that pen needle geometry plays in determining patient experience during insulin injection.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) are frequently asked to check their ketone levels by measuring ketonuria before breakfast. However, ketosis could be present even before lunch and dinner. Furthermore, blood ketone measurement could be a more accurate test.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFront Endocrinol (Lausanne)
February 2025
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View Article and Find Full Text PDFFront Endocrinol (Lausanne)
February 2025
Gestational diabetes mellitus is a worldwide health issue in pregnancy, posing a threat to both mother and child. One of the major risk factors for the development of gestational diabetes mellitus is polycystic ovary syndrome, primarily due to the biochemical hyperandrogenism and metabolic issues, commonly observed in these patients. In recent years, the Expert Group on Inositol in Basic and Clinical Research and on PCOS (EGOI-PCOS) has sought to better understand the pathogenesis behind polycystic ovary syndrome, in order to accurately diagnose and treat patients according to their individual needs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims: Several studies showed that Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) could affect gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) onset. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of GDM risk factors in a cohort of women with singleton pregnancy obtained by ART and complicated by GDM. Maternal and neonatal outcomes were explored.
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Methods: A narrative review of all the relevant papers known to the authors was conducted.
Diabet Med
June 2024
J Clin Med
January 2024
Intermittently Scanned Continuous Glucose Monitoring (isCGM) devices are increasingly being used in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) on insulin therapy for their benefits regarding disease management. Evidence of isCGM use in patients with T2DM on basal or non-insulin therapy is lacking. This study aimed at assessing the efficacy and safety of isCGM in this population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFType 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is characterized by high blood glucose levels and lipid alterations. Besides pharmacological treatment, lifestyle modifications and nutraceuticals can be used to manage glucose and lipid profiles, which is crucial for preventing, or avoiding, serious consequences associated with the condition. This randomized controlled clinical trial on 75 patients with T2DM evaluated the effects of a combination of myo-inositol and d-chiro-inositol (40:1), α-lactalbumin, Gymnema sylvestre, and zinc on glucose and lipid profile.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn recent years, GLP-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RA), and SGLT-2 inhibitors (SGLT-2i) have become available, which have become valuable additions to therapy for type 2 diabetes as they are associated with low risk for hypoglycemia and cardiovascular benefits. Indeed, SGLT-2i have emerged as a promising class of agents to treat heart failure (HF). By inhibiting SGLT-2, these agents lead to excretion of glucose in urine with subsequent lowering of plasma glucose, although it is becoming clear that the observed benefits in HF cannot be explained by glucose-lowering alone.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Clin Med
June 2023
Our aim was to evaluate osteomyelitis and other major lower limb safety outcomes (i.e., peripheral artery disease or PAD, ulcers, atraumatic fractures, amputations, symmetric polyneuropathy, and infections) in patients affected by type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and treated with sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2-is).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEur Heart J Cardiovasc Pharmacother
June 2023
Objective: To evaluate the specific effects of PCSK9 inhibitors (i.e. alirocumab and evolocumab) on major cardiovascular events (MACE) and lipid profile in patients with diabetes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Aims: Glycated albumin (GA) may assess glycometabolic control over a short period of time respect to HbA, and its use to screen for gestational diabetes in pregnancy has been suggested. To this regard few data on reference intervals (RI) for GA on Europid women have been collected, only from cross-sectional investigations. Aim of this work has been to collect trimester-specific RI for GA in physiological pregnancies, following a longitudinal prospective study.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPharmacol Res
September 2022
Diagnostic procedures for the diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) are not uniformly defined worldwide. We retrospectively applied two diagnostic procedures (i.e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Diabetes Sci Technol
March 2024
Aim: Pregnancies of women with pregestational diabetes are at risk of after-meal glucose peaks and late after-meal hypoglycemia, particularly at breakfast. We aimed to explore the effectiveness of a specific feature of insulin pump therapy called superbolus in preventing these glucose swings.
Methods: In this retrospective observational study, we analyzed continuous glucose monitoring data of patients with type 1 diabetes in pregnancy who were advised to use superbolus to manage their breakfast.
Skin allografts represent a milestone in burn patient treatment. However, skin procurement is still burdened by high rates of contamination, and validation procedures have not yet been standardized. In addition, it is not clear if tissue viability affects allograft skin outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe use of a televisit service complying with efficiency and safety regulatory parameters was effective in significantly improving HbA1c levels of people with T1D after a one-year follow-up period. No acute diabetes-related complications occurred. Patients were highly satisfied with the service.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis
July 2022
Background And Aims: The new advanced hybrid closed loop insulin infusion systems have the potential to significantly improve glycaemic control. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Minimed 780G system in 59 patients with type 1 diabetes.
Methods And Results: Glucose control obtained by using the system in automatic mode at 1-2 months of activation, at 2-4 months, at 4-6 months, and beyond 6 month was compared with those obtained with the system in manual mode.