Wendy B White, Kisa K Harris, Amel Mohamed, Frances C Henderson
{"title":"Thinking Ahead to the Next Generation of Cardiometabolic Investigators: What It Takes to Successfully Engage Underrepresented Minorities in Biomedical and Public Health Careers.","authors":"Wendy B White, Kisa K Harris, Amel Mohamed, Frances C Henderson","doi":"10.1007/s11892-022-01472-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11892-022-01472-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose of review: </strong>The purpose of this review is to examine the existing information regarding cardiometabolic syndrome (CMS) manifestations among underrepresented minority populations, underrepresented minorities' representation in the cardiometabolic workforce, and the models that successfully recruit and retain underrepresented minorities in the field.</p><p><strong>Recent findings: </strong>The scientific literature is replete with information on methods to recruit and train URM in research careers. However, there are few programs that are specifically designed to train URM to become diabetes researchers, or more specifically cardiometabolic researchers. The CMS scientific community leaders do not have to design a new learning program to engage URM in research. They only have to follow the prototypes by other organizations and make applicable to cardiometabolic research.</p>","PeriodicalId":10898,"journal":{"name":"Current Diabetes Reports","volume":"22 7","pages":"311-316"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9110944/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9510758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Friend or Foe: a Narrative Review of the Impact of Diabetes Technology on Sleep.","authors":"Erin C Cobry, Angela J Karami, Lisa J Meltzer","doi":"10.1007/s11892-022-01468-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11892-022-01468-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose of review: </strong>The purpose of this review is to present a review of sleep science, the relationship between sleep and type 1 diabetes, and highlight the current literature on sleep outcomes in adult and pediatric diabetes technology research.</p><p><strong>Recent findings: </strong>Sleep quality is associated with glycemic outcomes, diabetes self-management, and mental health in people with type 1 diabetes. Diabetes technologies, including insulin pumps, continuous glucose monitors, and hybrid closed-loop systems improve glycemic outcomes. However, many people find this technology challenging for a variety of reasons, including increased burden and frequent alarms, especially during the night. The impact of different devices on sleep quality and quantity has been mixed. The newest technology, the hybrid closed-loop systems, offers the best opportunity for nocturnal glycemic regulation and has improved patient and family perspectives on sleep quality. However, objective sleep assessment has not shown significant improvement on sleep duration. Sleep quality and quantity in people with type 1 diabetes are widely recognized as an important component of health care, and the literature regarding the impact of diabetes devices on sleep is increasing. However, sleep disruptions are common and a barrier to device use. Despite finding minimal changes to sleep duration with device use, subjective accounts of sleep quality are overall positive, especially in those using hybrid closed-loop systems. Sleep quantity and quality are important outcomes to consider as diabetes technology continues to evolve.</p>","PeriodicalId":10898,"journal":{"name":"Current Diabetes Reports","volume":"22 7","pages":"283-290"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9996025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Current Diabetes ReportsPub Date : 2022-07-01Epub Date: 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1007/s11892-022-01470-3
Shivani Agarwal, Iman Simmonds, Alyson K Myers
{"title":"The Use of Diabetes Technology to Address Inequity in Health Outcomes: Limitations and Opportunities.","authors":"Shivani Agarwal, Iman Simmonds, Alyson K Myers","doi":"10.1007/s11892-022-01470-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11892-022-01470-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose of review: </strong>The management of diabetes has been revolutionized by the introduction of novel technological treatments and modalities of care, such as continuous glucose monitoring, insulin pump therapy, and telehealth. While these technologies have demonstrated improvement in health outcomes, it remains unclear whether they have reduced inequities from racial/ethnic minority or socioeconomic status. We review the current literature to discuss evidence of benefit, current limitations, and future opportunities of diabetes technologies.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>While there is ample evidence of the health and psychological benefit of diabetes technologies in large populations of people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, there remain wide disparities in the use of diabetes technologies, which may be perpetuating or widening inequities. Multilevel barriers include inequitable prescribing practices, lack of support for social determinants of health, mismatch of patient preferences and care models, and cost. We provide a review of disparities in diabetes technology use, possible root causes of continued inequity in outcomes, and insight into ways to overcome remaining gaps.</p>","PeriodicalId":10898,"journal":{"name":"Current Diabetes Reports","volume":"22 7","pages":"275-281"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9157044/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9552604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rodolfo J Galindo, Ketan Dhatariya, Fernando Gomez-Peralta, Guillermo E Umpierrez
{"title":"Safety and Efficacy of Inpatient Diabetes Management with Non-insulin Agents: an Overview of International Practices.","authors":"Rodolfo J Galindo, Ketan Dhatariya, Fernando Gomez-Peralta, Guillermo E Umpierrez","doi":"10.1007/s11892-022-01464-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11892-022-01464-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose of review: </strong>The field of inpatient diabetes has advanced significantly over the last 20 years, leading to the development of personalized treatment approaches. However, outdated guidelines still recommend the use of basal-bolus insulin therapy as the preferred treatment approach, and against the use of non-insulin anti-hyperglycemic agents.</p><p><strong>Recent findings: </strong>Several observational and prospective randomized controlled studies have demonstrated that oral anti-hyperglycemic agents are widely used in the hospital, including studies of DPP-4 agents and GLP-1 agonists. With advances in the field of inpatient diabetes management, a paradigm shift has occurred, from an approach of recommending \"basal-bolus regimens\" for all patients to a more precision medicine option for hospitalized non-critically ill patients with type 2 diabetes.</p>","PeriodicalId":10898,"journal":{"name":"Current Diabetes Reports","volume":"22 6","pages":"237-246"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9065239/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9913775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hongyan Liu, V. Sridhar, B. Perkins, J. Rosenstock, D. Cherney
{"title":"SGLT2 Inhibition in Type 1 Diabetes with Diabetic Kidney Disease: Potential Cardiorenal Benefits Can Outweigh Preventable Risk of Diabetic Ketoacidosis","authors":"Hongyan Liu, V. Sridhar, B. Perkins, J. Rosenstock, D. Cherney","doi":"10.1007/s11892-022-01471-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11892-022-01471-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10898,"journal":{"name":"Current Diabetes Reports","volume":"22 1","pages":"317-332"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44295178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Koekkoek, L. L. van der Gun, M. Serlie, S. L. la Fleur
{"title":"The Clash of Two Epidemics: the Relationship Between Opioids and Glucose Metabolism","authors":"L. Koekkoek, L. L. van der Gun, M. Serlie, S. L. la Fleur","doi":"10.1007/s11892-022-01473-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11892-022-01473-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10898,"journal":{"name":"Current Diabetes Reports","volume":"22 1","pages":"301 - 310"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46101840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mohamad B Taha, Neha Rao, Muthiah Vaduganathan, Miguel Cainzos-Achirica, Khurram Nasir, Kershaw V Patel
{"title":"Implementation of Cardiometabolic Centers and Training Programs.","authors":"Mohamad B Taha, Neha Rao, Muthiah Vaduganathan, Miguel Cainzos-Achirica, Khurram Nasir, Kershaw V Patel","doi":"10.1007/s11892-022-01459-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11892-022-01459-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose of review: </strong>Type 2 diabetes is frequently accompanied by obesity, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, chronic kidney disease, and cardiovascular disease, which collectively contribute to the high burden of cardiometabolic disease. This review discusses cardiometabolic disease management, strategies to implement cardiometabolic centers to deliver care, and dedicated programs to train the next generation of cardiometabolic experts.</p><p><strong>Recent findings: </strong>Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors, glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists, and a nonsteroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist have demonstrated beneficial effects across cardiometabolic conditions. However, utilization of effective pharmacotherapies is low in clinical practice, in part due to clinical inertia and traditional sharp delineation in clinical responsibilities of specialists. Multidisciplinary clinics and population-health models can provide comprehensive care but require investment in physical and information technology infrastructure as well as in training and accreditation. Post-internal medicine residency cardiometabolic health training programs have been proposed. Implementing cardiometabolic centers in health systems involves reshaping current practices. Training programs focused on cardiometabolic health are needed to address the growing burden of disease and specific training needs in this ever-expanding area.</p>","PeriodicalId":10898,"journal":{"name":"Current Diabetes Reports","volume":"22 5","pages":"203-212"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9337855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Current Diabetes ReportsPub Date : 2022-05-01Epub Date: 2022-03-19DOI: 10.1007/s11892-022-01462-3
Natalie DeForest, Amit R Majithia
{"title":"Genetics of Type 2 Diabetes: Implications from Large-Scale Studies.","authors":"Natalie DeForest, Amit R Majithia","doi":"10.1007/s11892-022-01462-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11892-022-01462-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose of review: </strong>Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a multifactorial, heritable syndrome characterized by dysregulated glucose homeostasis that results from impaired insulin secretion and insulin resistance. Genetic association studies have successfully identified hundreds of T2D risk loci implicating many genes in disease pathogenesis. In this review, we provide an overview of the recent T2D genetic studies from the past 3 years with particular focus on the effects of sample size and ancestral diversity on genetic discovery as well as discuss recent work on the use and limitations of genetic risk scores (GRS) for T2D risk prediction.</p><p><strong>Recent findings: </strong>Recent large-scale, multi-ancestry genetic studies of T2D have identified over 500 novel risk loci. The genetic variants (i.e., single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)) marking these novel loci in general have smaller effect sizes than previously discovered loci. Inclusion of samples from diverse ancestral backgrounds shows a few ancestry specific loci marked by common variants, but overall, the majority of loci discovered are common across ancestries. Inclusion of common variant GRS, even with hundreds of loci, does not substantially increase T2D risk prediction over standard clinical risk factors such as age and family history. Common variant association studies of T2D have now identified over 700 T2D risk loci, half of which have been discovered in the past 3 years. These recent studies demonstrate that inclusion of ancestrally diverse samples can enhance locus discovery and improve accuracy of GRS for T2D risk prediction. GRS based on common variants, however, only minimally enhances risk prediction over standard clinical risk factors.</p>","PeriodicalId":10898,"journal":{"name":"Current Diabetes Reports","volume":"22 5","pages":"227-235"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9072491/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10775524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonists in the Treatment of Diabetic Kidney Disease: Their Application in the Era of SGLT2 Inhibitors and GLP-1 Receptor Agonists.","authors":"Scott Cohen, Hillel Sternlicht, George L Bakris","doi":"10.1007/s11892-022-01461-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11892-022-01461-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose of review: </strong>This review focuses on new clinical data involving a novel class of drugs, nonsteroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (NS-MRAs), specifically, finerenone and its effects on cardiovascular and diabetic kidney disease outcomes.</p><p><strong>Recent findings: </strong>NS-MRAs are a novel class of agents for treating diabetic kidney disease (DKD). While they are chemically and pharmacologically distinct from steroidal MRAs (spironolactone, eplerenone), they effectively inhibit the MR receptor differently. Inhibition of MR receptor activation reduces inflammatory and profibrotic pathways involving the cardiorenal/vascular systems. Small diabetic kidney disease (DKD) clinical studies demonstrate that steroidal MRAs reduce albuminuria relative to placebo, although hyperkalemia is a major adverse event that has precluded large outcome trials. The NS-MRA, finerenone, demonstrated slowed progression of DKD and reduction of cardiovascular death primarily driven by reduced heart failure incidence in two separate randomized controlled clinical trials (FIDELIO and FIGARO). Use of NS-MRAs, therefore, provides a third \"pillar of therapy\" to reduce cardiorenal events added to blockers of the renin-angiotensin system and SGLT2 inhibitors. If the pending outcome trial, FLOW, is positive, potentially, GLP1-RAs may also be part of this \"pillar\" structure.</p>","PeriodicalId":10898,"journal":{"name":"Current Diabetes Reports","volume":"22 5","pages":"213-218"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10832840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Current Diabetes ReportsPub Date : 2022-05-01Epub Date: 2022-03-10DOI: 10.1007/s11892-022-01460-5
Susana R Patton, Christopher C Cushing, Amy Hughes Lansing
{"title":"Applying Behavioral Economics Theories to Interventions for Persons with Diabetes.","authors":"Susana R Patton, Christopher C Cushing, Amy Hughes Lansing","doi":"10.1007/s11892-022-01460-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11892-022-01460-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose of review: </strong>To introduce behavioral economics (BE), provide a description of how recent prevention and treatment interventions in persons with diabetes have incorporated BE in their intervention strategies, and discuss how BE could be used to inform new treatments for the clinical setting or research.</p><p><strong>Recent findings: </strong>In most of the trials described, researchers incorporated BE into their design in the form of incentives, which can align with present bias, optimism bias, and loss aversion. With only two exceptions, these trials reported preliminary support for using incentives to promote lifestyle modifications and diabetes-related tasks. Additionally, two trials reported promising results for behavior change strategies informed by default bias, while three trials reported promising results for behavior change strategies informed by social norms. Recent trials incorporating BE in prevention and treatment interventions for persons with diabetes generally report promising results, though gaps exist for research and clinical deployment.</p>","PeriodicalId":10898,"journal":{"name":"Current Diabetes Reports","volume":"22 5","pages":"219-226"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9951181/pdf/nihms-1868970.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9407877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}