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Metformin use significantly reduces risk of joint replacement in people with type 2 diabetes

Medical Xpress

In the United States, the number of total knee replacement (TKR) and total hip replacement (THR) surgeries is estimated to reach 572 000 per year by 2030. Osteoarthritis is a common chronic condition that usually causes joint pain and can be severe enough to require knee and hip replacements.

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Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common. When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. And yet we’re also in a different place in diabetes monitoring and management. Goldilocks zone). This is Eric Widera.

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Power to the Patient with Patient Generated Health Data

FDA Law Blog

Another patient shared their journey with diabetes. As for the future of PGHD, many panelists were asked how they envision use of PGHD in 2030. This patient had used wearable devices on their own in the past but did not understand how to use the data to manage their health.

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Factors Associated with Annual Vision Screening in Diabetic Adults: Analysis of the 2019 National Health Interview Survey [Population health and epidemiology]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the most common complication of diabetes mellitus and is the leading cause of blindness in working age Americans. Conclusions: Economic, social, and geographic factors are associated with diabetic adults receiving an annual eye exam.

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Nurse Practitioners Critical in Treating Older Adults as Ranks of Geriatricians Shrink

Physician's Weekly

Ellen had been diagnosed with vascular dementia, peripheral vascular disease, and Type 2 diabetes. The Health Resources and Services Administration projects a 50% increase in demand for geriatricians from 2018 to 2030, when the entire baby boom generation will be older than 65.

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Cachexia and Anorexia in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Eduardo Bruera

GeriPal

It’s just that they look like a big bmI, but they lost 15, 2030 pounds. It can be quite problematic in people with diabetes and so on. And occasionally I get people calling me and saying, you know, I see a patient who is very chubby. But their albumin is too. Would they have a nephropathy or anything?

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