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Sverige behåller andraplatsen i global innovationsrankning
 
De fem nordiska länderna finns bland de 25 högst rankade länderna i Global Innovation Index 2017,

Sverige behåller sin position som världens näst mest innovativa land, enligt Global Innovation Index 2017,
 
Schweiz är för sjätte året i rad det mest
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Ingen utvärdering av FreeStyle Libre
 
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TLV har inte möjlighet att publicera en hälsoekonomisk utvärdering av den kontinuerliga glukosmätaren FreeStyle Libre, eftersom företaget som marknadsför produkten valt att inte bidra med nödvändigt underlag.
 
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DEVOTE: Tresiba as Safe as Glargine With Less Severe Hypoglycemia
 
SAN DIEGO — For the treatment of type 2 diabetes, the ultra-long–acting, once-daily basal insulin degludec (Tresiba, Novo Nordisk) is as safe in cardiovascular terms as insulin glargine and is associated with much lower rates of
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SAN DIEGO — The sodium–glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor canagliflozin (Invokana, Janssen Pharmaceuticals) reduces cardiovascular events by 14% and cuts the rate of renal decline by 40% but also doubles the risk for lower-limb amputation, new cardiovascular-outcomes trial data indicate.
 
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Studien CANagliflozin cardioVascular Assessment Study (CANVAS) har idag just presenterats på American Diabetes Association (ADA) mötet.
 
Det är en stor randomiserad studie som testade två doser av canagliflozin, SGLT2-hämmare, mot placebo hos patienter med typ 2 diabetes, både med och utan tidigare
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Tresiba® demonstrated no increased risk of major cardiovascular events and significant reduction in rates of severe hypoglycaemia compared to insulin glargine U100 in the DEVOTE trial
 
San Diego, US, 12 June 2017 ­- Novo Nordisk today announced the primary results from DEVOTE - the first
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Carla J Greenbaum, USA
Delaying T1DM is important. It means a longer period of time without the day to day extra job or living with T1DM.
 
This is the largest trial ever performed using oral insulin. Oral insulin did not delay clinical diagnosis of T1DM in the main strata of 389 peiple, or when all the
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SAN DIEGO — The recent results of large outcomes trials showing cardiovascular benefit with type 2 diabetes drugs must be properly incorporated into treatment guidelines, such as those issued by the American Diabetes Association and other national guidelines all over the world, implores one
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SAN DIEGO — Use of metformin may offer some atherosclerosis protection for patients with type 1 diabetes but does not appear to improve glycemic control, new data suggest.

Findings from the double-blind, placebo-controlled Reducing with Metformin Vascular Adverse Lesions (REMOVAL) trial were

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SAN DIEGO — Treatment options for sexual dysfunction in diabetic patients are surprisingly limited, and new therapeutic targets are needed for both sexes, according to new data presented here at the American Diabetes Association (ADA) 2017 Scientific Sessions.
 
To enable this, more information on
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Those two words were woven through a Sunday morning address by Alvin C. Powers, MD, ADA President, Medicine & Science.
 
Today’s researchers and clinicians work in a 140-character, 24-hour news cycle, understanding that messaging is critical when trying to get the public’s attention, gain notice
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SAN DIEGO — Meeting attendees are pushing back against the enforcement of severe restrictions on social media posts that discuss the American Diabetes Association (ADA) 2017 Scientific Sessionstaking place here this week.
 
Since the meeting began on Friday, June 9, many of the attendees' Twitter
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SAN DIEGO — In a large Danish, longitudinal population-based study, boys who were overweight as children but who had returned to normal weight by age 18 did not have an increased risk of type 2 diabetes compared with those age 18 who had never been overweight in childhood.
 
"These findings suggest
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SAN DIEGO — First data on use of a proprotein convertase subtilisin kexin 9 (PCSK9) inhibitor specifically in patients with diabetes failed to excite here at the American Diabetes Association (ADA) 2017 Scientific Sessions .

Alirocumab (Praluent, Sanofi/Regeneron Pharmaceuticals) met its primary efficacy end

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Outstanding Educator in Diabetes Award recipient trumpets value of team-based care
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Davida F. Kruger, MSN, APRN-BC, BC-ADM
The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) did more than confirm
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The Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) started in 1996, but its benefits continue to improve the lives of those with diabetes and prediabetes, according to Brenda Montgomery, RN, MSHS, CDE, ADA President, Health Care & Education.
 
T2DM Can And Should Be Prevented 2017
 
During her presidential address
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Fans of diabetes clinical trials rejoice: The American Diabetes Association (ADA) 2017 Scientific Sessions is your meeting.
 
Of course, the annual ADA conference always offers cutting-edge research on just about every aspect of diabetes for scientists, clinicians, other professionals, patients, and
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NEW ORLEANS — New data from the EMPA-REG OUTCOME trial with the sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitor empagliflozin (Jardiance, Boehringer Ingelheim) show that the drug significantly reduced the incidence of worsening nephropathy by 39% in the population of type 2 diabetes patients studied
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NEW ORLEANS — Nearly closed-loop systems (also referred to as an "artificial pancreas") for improving glycemic control and minimizing hypoglycemia in type 1 diabetes are advancing rapidly, including iterations that deliver insulin alone, insulin with glucagon, or glucagon alone.
 
Findings for
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NEW ORLEANS — Details of the Liraglutide Effect and Action in Diabetes: Evaluation of Cardiovascular Outcome Results—A Long Term Evaluation (LEADER) trial of the glucose-lowering drug liraglutide (Victoza, Novo Nordisk), showing that it significantly reduced the rates of major adverse
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SAN DIEGO — A talk on whether sulfonylureas still have a role in the contemporary treatment of type 2 diabetes
garnered much interest here at the American Diabetes Association (ADA) 2017 Scientific Sessions.
 
Speaking to a large audience in a packed room, Kamlesh Khunti, MD, from the University of
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SAN DIEGO — New data from the Trial to Evaluate Cardiovascular and Other Long-term Outcomes With Semaglutide in Subjects With Type 2 Diabetes (SUSTAIN-6), a 1 weekly given GLP-analog,  provide a plausible explanation for the worsening retinopathy seen among patients taking the investigational

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SAN DIEGO — New data from the Trial to Evaluate Cardiovascular and Other Long-term Outcomes With Semaglutide in Subjects With Type 2 Diabetes (SUSTAIN-6), a 1 weekly given GLP-analog,  provide a plausible explanation for the worsening retinopathy seen among patients taking the investigational

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The risk of developing diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) among type 2 diabetes patients initiating a sodium–glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor medication is about double that seen among patients starting a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitor, but the overall risk is still low, new research
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