Vol 20, No 2 (2020)

December 2020

Table of Contents

Editorials

Nitric oxide and phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitors: possible treatments for COVID-19 in diabetes
Martin B Whyte, Prash Vas, Philip A Kelly, Christian Heiss, Michael D Feher
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Diabetes medications with cardiovascular protection: the likelihood of benefit from combination therapy increases further following new evidence during 2020
Robert EJ Ryder, Muhammad A Abdul-Ghani, Ralph A DeFronzo
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85-88

Reviews

Diabetic ketoacidosis in people on maintenance haemodialysis: case reports and review of literature
Apexa Kuverji, Kath Higgins, James O Burton, Andrew H Frankel, Chee Kay Cheung
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89-95

Original Research

Evaluating the effect of inpatient diabetes education on length of stay, readmission rates and mortality rates: a systematic review
Zeeshan Hussain, Mohammed Alkharaiji, Iskandar Idris
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96-103
High prevalence of diabetes in young people in Bangalore, India
Satyan M Rajbhandari, K Vijay Kumar, Raja Selvarajan, Tara Murali
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104-106
Glycaemic benefit of structured diabetes education in Nepal, a resource limited environment
Jaya Pradhan, Satyan M Rajbhandari
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107-112
Effects of canagliflozin are mostly observed at first follow-up, within 6 months of commencement: results for the ABCD canagliflozin audit
Thomas SJ Crabtree, Peter Winocour, Ken Darzy, Suzanne Phillips, Alison Evans, Anurita Rohilla, Rajeev Raghavan, Devesh Sennik, Alex Bickerton, Iskandar Idris, Mahender Yadagiri, Robert EJ Ryder, ABCD Canagliflozin Audit Contributors
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113-116
Type 2 diabetes is an independent predictor of weight loss in Tier 3 Weight Assessment and Management Services
Aliya Syahreni Prihartadi*, Giovanna Impelliziere Licastro*, Harshal Deshmukh, Sufyan Benamer, Kyaw Linn, Najeeb Shah, Thozhukat Sathyapalan, Kamrudeen Mohammed
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117-121
Healthcare professional awareness of eating disorders in people with type 1 diabetes: a staff survey
Sarah Brewster, Helen Partridge, Caroline Cross, Hermione Price
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122-129

Learning from practice

HbA1c in a primary care cohort with diabetes and chronic kidney disease: the East and North Hertfordshire Institute of Diabetes and Endocrinology (ENHIDE) Diabetes Renal Telehealth Project
Peter H Winocour, Karen Moore-Haines, Keith Sullivan, Anne Currie, Andrew Solomon, Dawn Hardy
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130-137

Current Topics

Series: Cardiovascular outcome trials for diabetes drugs Empagliflozin and EMPA-REG OUTCOME
Miles Fisher
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138-141
Series: Cardiovascular outcome trials for diabetes drugs Liraglutide and LEADER
Miles Fisher
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142-144

Case Reports

Severe ketoacidosis in a non-diabetic lactating woman on a ketogenic diet
John Alexander, Dinesh Nagi
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145-146
Dipeptidyl peptidase 4 inhibitors and bullous pemphigoid − more evidence of a link: a report of three cases
Amrita Randhawa, Donna Torley, Alastair Kerr, Grant Wylie
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147-148
Diabetic foot ulcers: “One swallow does not make a summer”
Ibrahim Antoun, Apexa Kuverji, Marie-France Kong
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149-150

The Rowan Hillson Insulin Safety Award

The Rowan Hillson Inpatient Safety Award 2018 for the best inpatient diabetes educational programme for healthcare professionals
Umesh Dashora, Mike Sampson, Erwin Castro, Debbie Stanisstreet, Christine Jones, Rowan Hillson, On behalf of JBDS for Inpatient Care
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151-154

Position Statements

Association of British Clinical Diabetologists (ABCD) and Diabetes UK joint position statement and recommendations on the use of sodium-glucose co-transporter inhibitors with insulin for treatment of type 1 diabetes (updated October 2020)
Umesh Dashora, Dipesh C Patel, Robert Gregory, Peter Winocour, Ketan Dhatariya, Susannah Rowles, Andrew Macklin, Gerry Rayman, Dinesh Nagi
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155-162

Survey

ABCD Survey: Life as a diabetologist during the COVID-19 pandemic
Susannah Rowles, Dipesh Patel, Andrew Macklin, Umesh Dashora
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163-165

Letters to the editor

COVID-19 associated sick days spike in insulin requirements: the need for rapidly escalating treatment and rapidly reducing on recovery
Helen A Casey, Chris Kelly
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166-167

Book Reviews

Book Review: Life Without Diabetes: The definitive guide to understanding and reversing type 2 diabetes
Caroline Day
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168

Meeting Reports

Overview of the 80th Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association
Caroline Day
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169-170
Impressions from EASD 2020
Caroline Day
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170-171

ABCD News

ABCD, YDEF and DTN-UK News
Dipesh Patel, Umesh Dashora, Rebecca Reeve, Pratik Choudhary, Alistair Lumb, Tim Robbins
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172-178

Supplement

DTN-UK Best Practice Guide Supplement
 
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