Long-term outcomes of patients with type 2 diabetes attending a multidisciplinary diabetes kidney disease clinic.

Background: The best model of care to retard diabetic kidney disease (DKD) in the clinic is underexplored. In this study we investigated the long-term renal outcomes of a joint endocrinologist-nephrologist clinic.

Methods: The present study was a nested case-control study derived from a cohort of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) seen prospectively at a secondary care diabetes center (DC).

Diabetes management and hypoglycemia in safety sensitive jobs.

The majority of people diagnosed with diabetes mellitus are in the working age group in developing countries. The interrelationship of diabetes and work, that is, diabetes affecting work and work affecting diabetes, becomes an important issue for these people. Therapeutic options for the diabetic worker have been developed, and currently include various insulins, insulin sensitizers and secretagogues, incretin mimetics and enhancers, and alpha glucosidase inhibitors.