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Editorial: Food, fat and feet

Supporting dietary change in primary care is challenging. Understanding the role of fats in a healthy diet may be key.

16 Oct 2019

Diabetes Distilled: Practitioner empathy impacts long-term diabetes outcomes

Lower risk of cardiovascular events and mortality following positive early experiences of practitioner empathy.

16 Oct 2019

Diabetes foot screening: what is needed to do this in a real world primary care setting?

27 Sep 2019

Practitioner empathy impacts long-term diabetes outcomes

Patients and doctors value empathy. Empathetic care encompasses shared decision making and understanding the patient’s perspective as well as an appreciation of the broader context in which the patient’s illness is experienced. Patients from 49 English general practices were invited to assess practitioner empathy and their experiences of diabetes care in the 12 months since their diagnosis. Higher empathy scores were associated with lower risks of cardiovascular disease events and all-cause mortality.

18 Sep 2019

How to manage hyperglycaemia in people with severe mental illness

An overview of the information needed to screen, monitor and manage hyperglycaemia in those with severe mental illness.

13 Sep 2019

Inter-arm differences in blood pressure: A brief summary

A novel marker of cardiovascular risk: a consideration for primary care?

4 Sep 2019

Free e-learning module: Diabetes in children and young people – Parts 1–3

CPD for healthcare professionals covering epidemiology, guidelines, diagnosis, diabetic ketoacidosis, the prescribing and monitoring of insulin, education, diet and lifestyle in children and young adults with diabetes.

26 Jul 2019

14th National Conference of the PCDS

The key learning points and their application to practice from the broad range of topics presented at the conference.

3 May 2019

Changing picture of diabetes classification: a case report

Making a clear distinction in the diagnosis of diabetes is important but is not always easy and the clinical picture may change, as this case study presented by Thea Williams and Lucy Robin demonstrates.

1 May 2019

Symptom burden greatest in undiagnosed diabetes

8 Apr 2019

Preventing misdiagnosis of diabetes in the elderly

Investigators examining increased HbA_1c levels in older people without diabetes have found a positive association between HbA_1c concentration and age in two independent population-based cohorts. This increase was observed equally in lean, overweight and obese individuals. Investigators used their findings to propose age-dependent reference values for HbA_1c and suggested that clinicians be made aware of this age-related increase in HbA_1c that is independent of diabetes. They propose that age-dependent reference intervals be used to improve patient care and the diagnosis of diabetes.

5 Apr 2019

Free e-learning module: Diabetes in children and young people – Part 1. Overview of diabetes in the young

CPD providing healthcare professionals with an overview of diabetes in children and young adults.

4 Mar 2019

Abnormal sweating in diabetes — implications for screening for diabetic peripheral neuropathy

31 Oct 2018

We need to talk about screening

31 Oct 2018

Hypertriglyceridaemic waist in older adults: Comparison of diagnostic criteria

The hypertriglyceridaemic waist (HW) phenotype is defined as the combination of high waist circumference and high fasting blood triglyceride concentrations. The results of this study suggest that cut-off points derived from younger adults may overestimate the prevalence of HW, and the associated cardiometabolic risk, in older people.

22 Oct 2018

Free e-learning module: Non-diabetic hyperglycaemia and type 2 diabetes prevention

CPD for all healthcare professionals involved in the prevention of NDH and T2D.

19 Oct 2018

This is is your early warning wake-up call

Outlining a small pilot undertaken to ascertain the effectiveness of a sepsis screening tool along with other tests

13 Sep 2018

Hereditary haemochromatosis and diabetes

A review of hereditary haemochromatosis (HH), one of the most common hereditary conditions in people of European ancestry. If left untreated, HH results in diabetes due to iron accumulation in beta-cells and the development of insulin resistance.

30 Aug 2018

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