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The SGLT2 inhibitor bexagliflozin is now available under the brand name Brenzavvy. Approval was based on monotherapy trials versus glimepiride, where the new drug was non-inferior, and in combination with metformin.

Guideline Central offers a complete summary of the ADA’s latest guideline — Standards of Care for 2023. The update and summary cover topics from delaying the onset of T2DM to supporting positive behaviors, glycemic targets, weigh management, technology, pharmacology, and preventing and managing complications and concomitant diseases.

Participants should be better able to discuss anti-VEGF therapy outcomes in patients with moderate-severe and severe nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy after taking part in this educational activity with Drs. Susan Bressler, Mark Dunbar, and Ruth Weinstock, and understand the importance of prompt referral and early diagnosis to reduce or even prevent the vision-threatening complications of diabetes.

A layered approach to care is described with lifestyle interventions being a key feature of the updated recommendations. The recommendations now include therapies proven to improve cardiovascular and kidney outcomes in patients with diabetes and CKD.

The updated ADA standards have several significant changes. These include: A revised definition of HTN to match that of the ACC and AHA New recommendations for statin use Changes to recommendations around CKD treatment Revised weight loss goals Use of diabetes technology And much more

Looking at 2,500 case patients mapped to more than 45,000 controls, the hazard ratio for all thyroid cancers in GLP-1 users was 1.46. The hazard ratio for developing thyroid cancer with DPP-4 inhibitors was 1.1. GLP-1 receptors are present in normal and cancerous thyroid cells.