This article, published in the New Zealand Journal of Primary Healthcare, sought to undertake a review of the literature about the impact of nurse prescribing on the delivery of healthcare services...
The idea of type 2 diabetes (T2D) being a progressive illness is almost redundant, with increasing evidence even confirming how T2D remission is possible. For example, Cucuzzella et al (2023: 146)...
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The pharmacological pathway in the NICE guidelines on T2DM (NG28) is metformin as first line, or a choice of sulfonylurea (SU), pioglitazone, DPP-4 inhibitor, or SGLT-2 inhibitor if metformin not...
When considering a treatment to improve glycaemic control, it is important to involve the individual in the decision-making process and to consider their specific circumstances and potential...
During the summer of 1921, an unlikely team consisting of Frederick Banting, a newly established physician specialising in orthopaedics and a professor of physiology, and Charles Best, one of his lab...
Diabetes can stem from obesity, with increasing numbers of studies showing remission of diabetes through a reduction in body weight (Quimby et al, 2021). Further research looks at how different food...
The main complications of diabetes are microvascular disease affecting the eyes, nerves and kidneys, and macrovascular disease leading to cardiovascular disease (CVD), cerebrovascular disease and...
Recent accumulating evidence on the use of newer therapies in type 2 diabetes (T2DM) is helping to define their position in treatment. This information coupled with the increasing priority given...
There has been a bidirectional relationship between COVID-19 and diabetes, with increased rates of new diagnosis and an increased risk of severe COVID-19 for those already diagnosed (Rubino et al,...
This piece of original research, carried out in May 2020 in China, used a questionnaire method to gather information about diabetic patients as a measure to determine recruitment before conducting a...
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