Clinical DiabetesPub Date : 2025-12-15eCollection Date: 2025-05-01DOI: 10.2337/cd25-0071
Stephen A Brunton
{"title":"Goodbye and Be Well.","authors":"Stephen A Brunton","doi":"10.2337/cd25-0071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2337/cd25-0071","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39894,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Diabetes","volume":"43 5","pages":"636"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12719315/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145821389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Clinical DiabetesPub Date : 2025-12-15eCollection Date: 2025-05-01DOI: 10.2337/cd25-dk05
Debbie Kendall
{"title":"In Appreciation of Our Journal and Its Extended Family.","authors":"Debbie Kendall","doi":"10.2337/cd25-dk05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2337/cd25-dk05","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39894,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Diabetes","volume":"43 5","pages":"637"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12719312/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145821468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparing the Effects of <i>Ganoderma lucidum</i> and Kombucha Mushrooms on Glycemic Control in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes: A Randomized Clinical Trial.","authors":"Leili Yekefallah, Fatemeh Aghakhanbeigi, Azadeh Jalalpour, Peyman Namdar, Mohamad Hossein Mafi","doi":"10.2337/cd25-0032","DOIUrl":"10.2337/cd25-0032","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This randomized clinical trial compared the effects of <i>Ganoderma lucidum</i> and kombucha mushrooms on glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes. After the intervention, there were significant differences among the <i>G. lucidum</i>, kombucha mushroom, and control groups in fasting blood glucose, 2-hour postprandial glucose, and A1C. In the <i>G. lucidum</i> and kombucha mushroom groups, these measures all decreased significantly from baseline to after the intervention. The use of both <i>G. lucidum</i> and kombucha mushrooms was effective in glycemic control, and there was no significant difference in effectiveness between the two. Further studies of different doses and longer follow-up periods may clarify the best use of these substances.</p>","PeriodicalId":39894,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Diabetes","volume":"43 5","pages":"813-822"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12719319/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145821317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Clinical DiabetesPub Date : 2025-10-23eCollection Date: 2025-05-01DOI: 10.2337/cd25-0039
Nattawat Poolsawatkitikool
{"title":"Effectiveness of Vitamin B1-6-12 Supplementation Compared With Vitamin B12 and Gabapentin in Patients With Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy.","authors":"Nattawat Poolsawatkitikool","doi":"10.2337/cd25-0039","DOIUrl":"10.2337/cd25-0039","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The use of gabapentin, a first-line drug for diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN), is limited by its side effects, leading to more frequent use of vitamin B as an alternative. This randomized controlled trial of 237 patients with diabetes and at least probable DPN assessed pain outcomes using the Revised Thai Short-Form McGill Pain Questionnaire, Visual Analog Scale, Present Pain Intensity, and monofilament risk score at baseline and 4 and 12 weeks. Gabapentin showed superior improvement across all measures compared with vitamin B1-6-12 and B12, supporting its role as first-line therapy. However, vitamin B1-6-12 remains a cost-effective alternative with lower side effect, warranting further economic evaluation.</p>","PeriodicalId":39894,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Diabetes","volume":"43 5","pages":"794-804"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12719321/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145821324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Clinical DiabetesPub Date : 2025-10-23eCollection Date: 2025-05-01DOI: 10.2337/cd25-0025
Elizabeth A Beverly, Anirudh Prabu, Joshua J Joseph, Douglas Einstadter, Jordan Fiegl, Thomas E Love, Katherine Jenkins, Allison Lorenz, Shah Jalal Uddin, Michael W Konstan, Mary S Applegate, Shari D Bolen, Kathleen M Dungan
{"title":"Improving Medication Adherence and Medication Optimization With a Medicaid-Funded Statewide Diabetes Quality Improvement Project.","authors":"Elizabeth A Beverly, Anirudh Prabu, Joshua J Joseph, Douglas Einstadter, Jordan Fiegl, Thomas E Love, Katherine Jenkins, Allison Lorenz, Shah Jalal Uddin, Michael W Konstan, Mary S Applegate, Shari D Bolen, Kathleen M Dungan","doi":"10.2337/cd25-0025","DOIUrl":"10.2337/cd25-0025","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Medication adherence is a barrier to achieving glycemic goals among Medicaid recipients with diabetes. The Diabetes Quality Improvement Program Collaborative recruited 19 primary care practices serving a high volume of Medicaid patients in Ohio with the goal of reducing the percentage of adults with type 2 diabetes with A1C >9.0% through a 1-year intervention. The mean medication possession ratio (MPR) improved from 71.6% during the pre-intervention period to 74.1% at year 1 post-intervention-a relative improvement of 3.4%. Factors associated with a lower MPR included younger age, identifying as non-Hispanic Black or Hispanic, and a pre-intervention A1C >9.0%. Although the initiative modestly improved medication adherence, addressing persistent disparities and expanding prescribing of therapies with cardiorenal benefits will be necessary to improve diabetes outcomes in the Medicaid population.</p>","PeriodicalId":39894,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Diabetes","volume":"43 5","pages":"823-832"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12719341/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145821458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Clinical DiabetesPub Date : 2025-10-16eCollection Date: 2025-05-01DOI: 10.2337/cd25-0054
Michael Trenell, Maria Camprubi Robles, Louise Taylor, Nicky Northway, Kirk W Kerr, Carl Lumsden, Leah Avery, David Faluyi, Ricardo Rueda, Suela Sulo
{"title":"A Pathway to Type 2 Diabetes Remission: Weight Reduction and A1C Improvements Are Facilitated by a Low-Calorie Diet Including Diabetes-Specific Nutritional Formula and the Use of Digitally Enabled Reinforcement.","authors":"Michael Trenell, Maria Camprubi Robles, Louise Taylor, Nicky Northway, Kirk W Kerr, Carl Lumsden, Leah Avery, David Faluyi, Ricardo Rueda, Suela Sulo","doi":"10.2337/cd25-0054","DOIUrl":"10.2337/cd25-0054","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article reports on the feasibility and effectiveness of a 12-week program, including a low-calorie diet using a diabetes-specific nutritional formula meal replacement, a digitally enabled self-management app, and coaching, on measurable outcomes of weight, BMI, A1C levels, and blood pressure in adults with type 2 diabetes and excess body weight. Participation in the program reduced body weight by a mean 11 ± 6.5 kg, BMI by 3.7 ± 2.2 kg/m<sup>2</sup>, A1C by 1%, systolic blood pressure by 4.5 ± 16.1 mmHg, and diastolic blood pressure by 5.8 ± 16.9 mmHg (all <i>P</i> <0.01).</p>","PeriodicalId":39894,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Diabetes","volume":"43 5","pages":"772-780"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12719328/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145821284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Clinical DiabetesPub Date : 2025-10-16eCollection Date: 2025-05-01DOI: 10.2337/cd25-0022
Brian G Collins, Cindy O Jean-Baptiste
{"title":"Equitable Management of Type 2 Diabetes in American Indian and Alaska Native Adults.","authors":"Brian G Collins, Cindy O Jean-Baptiste","doi":"10.2337/cd25-0022","DOIUrl":"10.2337/cd25-0022","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Prior to the 1940s, type 2 diabetes was considered a rare disease in American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) individuals. However, because of multiple complex factors, it rapidly progressed and became endemic within a matter of decades. Despite community-led interventions to prevent diabetes onset and progression, AI/AN individuals are disproportionately affected by diabetes and remain grossly underrepresented in diabetes treatment research. To provide equitable health care for AI/ANs with diabetes, clinicians should develop an understanding of important socioeconomic and environmental factors that influence health outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":39894,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Diabetes","volume":"43 5","pages":"723-734"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12719339/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145821322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Clinical DiabetesPub Date : 2025-10-15eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.2337/cd25-ed04
Stephen A Brunton
{"title":"Diabetes Management: Evolution or Revolution?","authors":"Stephen A Brunton","doi":"10.2337/cd25-ed04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2337/cd25-ed04","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39894,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Diabetes","volume":"43 4","pages":"460"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12547070/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145379157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Clinical DiabetesPub Date : 2025-10-15eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.2337/cd25-er04
{"title":"Erratum: Introduction to Your Rights and Care Standards: A Guide for People with Type 2 Diabetes. Clinical Diabetes 2025;43:334.","authors":"","doi":"10.2337/cd25-er04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2337/cd25-er04","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>[This corrects the article DOI: 10.2337/cd25-pint.].</p>","PeriodicalId":39894,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Diabetes","volume":"43 4","pages":"632"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12549409/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145379140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}