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HSC Medicine, Dentistry and Healthcare Sciences Current Awareness Bulletins: Diabetes and Endocrinology

Diabetes and Endocrinology current awareness bulletin

Frequency: Bi-monthly

Links to articles in the current and previous 2 issues of this bulletin are displayed below.

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March 2025

Biomarkers and diagnostic thresholds for congenital hyperinsulinism

Dissection of type 2 diabetes: a genetic perspective  

Effect of antithyroid drugs treatment duration on the remission rates of Graves' disease in children and adolescents: a single-arm meta-analysis and systematic review

Effects of GLP-1 receptor agonists on kidney and cardiovascular disease outcomes   

Elacestrant for treating oestrogen receptor-positive HER2-negative advanced breast cancer with an ESR1 mutation after endocrine treatment (new NICE guideline TA1036)

Finerenone and new-onset diabetes in heart failure: a prespecified analysis of the FINEARTS-HF trial  

Glucagon‐like peptide 1 (GLP‐1) receptor agonists for people with chronic kidney disease and diabetes (new Cochrane intervention review)

Hybrid closed-loop insulin therapy and risk of severe hypoglycaemia and diabetic ketoacidosis in young people (aged 2–20 years) with type 1 diabetes: a population-based study  

Hypothalamic obesity: from basic mechanisms to clinical perspectives  

Is it time to revisit the recommendations for initiation of menopausal hormone therapy? 

Managing hypoglycaemia in patients with insulinoma

Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: heterogeneous pathomechanisms and effectiveness of metabolism-based treatment  

New pituitary adenoma classification system to individualise management and improve long-term prognosis

Outcomes after medical treatment for primary aldosteronism  

Overweight and obesity among Israeli adolescents and the risk for serious morbidity in early young adulthood: a nationwide retrospective cohort study

PEG precipitation to detect macro-TSH in clinical practice: a systematic review

Prevalence of vitamin D deficiency with biochemical abnormalities in children undergoing vitamin D testing

Selpercatinib for advanced thyroid cancer with RET alterations after treatment with a targeted cancer drug in people 12 years and over (new NICE guideline TA1038)

Setmelanotide in patients aged 2–5 years with rare MC4R pathway-associated obesity (VENTURE)

Thyroidectomy without radioiodine in patients with low-risk thyroid cancer: 5 years of follow-up of the prospective randomised ESTIMABL2 trial  

Treatment regimens and glycaemic outcomes in more than 100 000 children with type 1 diabetes (2013–22): a longitudinal analysis of data from paediatric diabetes registries  

The use of prednisolone 2.5 mg daily during Ramadan fasting in patients with adrenal insufficiency

Sources

Clinical Endocrinology (Feb-Mar); Cochrane Library (Jan-Feb); Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, The (Jan-Feb); NICE website (Jan-Feb)

January 2025

Anti-obesity medication in the management of children and adolescents with obesity: recent developments and research gaps

Cardiovascular effectiveness of newer glucose-lowering agents, with and without baseline lipid-lowering therapy in type 2 diabetes

Common mistakes concerning diabetes management in daily clinical practice

Continuous glucose sensor accuracy: beyond the headline metric

Depression symptoms, wellbeing, health-related quality of life, and diabetes-related distress in novel subtypes of recent-onset diabetes in Germany: a 5-year observational follow-up study

Diagnostic and management challenges in paediatric Cushing's syndrome

The dynamics of diabetes disclosure in the workplace

Effect of psychological intervention on glycemic control in middle-aged and elderly patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Enzyme replacement therapy for hypophosphatasia—the current paradigm

Exploring the feasibility of opportunistic diabetic retinopathy screening with handheld fundus cameras in primary care: insights from doctors and nurses

Genomic testing for differences of sex development: practices and perceptions of clinicians

Individualized treatment of diabetes mellitus in older adults

Is early menopause a different entity from premature ovarian insufficiency?

Lomitapide for the treatment of paediatric patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia

Paediatric perspectives in the diagnosis of polyuria-polydipsia syndrome

The role of finerenone in the management of CKD in T2D – practical considerations for primary care

Selective androgen receptor modulators (SARMs) effects on physical performance

Time to reframe the disease staging system for type 1 diabetes

Trends in the incidence of young-adult-onset diabetes by diabetes type: a multi-national population-based study from an international diabetes consortium

Worldwide trends in diabetes prevalence and treatment from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 1108 population-representative studies with 141 million participants

Younger-onset compared with later-onset type 2 diabetes: an analysis of the UK Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS) with up to 30 years of follow-up (UKPDS 92)

Sources

Clinical Endocrinology (Dec-Jan); Diabetology (Oct-Nov); Geriatrics and Gerontology International (Dec); Lancet, The (Nov); Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, The (Dec); Primary Care Diabetes (Dec)

November 2024

Aberrant hormone receptors regulate a wide spectrum of endocrine tumors

Assessment of testicular function in boys and adolescents

Association of BMI, lipid-lowering medication, and age with prevalence of type 2 diabetes in adults with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia: a worldwide cross-sectional study

Biomarkers in congenital adrenal hyperplasia

Biomarkers to inform the management of polycystic ovary syndrome: a review of systematic reviews

Cardiometabolic outcomes in offspring of women treated with metformin versus insulin for gestational diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Determinants of and barriers to diabetes care among patients with serious mental illness: a scoping review with recommendations

Developing oral chronotherapy for cortisol replacement in congenital adrenal hyperplasia

Effect of sodium–glucose co-transporter-2 inhibitors on survival free of organ support in patients hospitalised for COVID-19 (ACTIV-4a)

The effectiveness of delivery modalities of non-pharmacological diabetes prevention programs

Efficacy of using telecare services for community-dwelling people with diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Evolving epidemiological patterns of thyroid cancer and estimates of overdiagnosis in 2013–17 in 63 countries worldwide: a population-based study

Long-term health consequences of congenital adrenal hyperplasia

Male hypogonadism: pathogenesis, diagnosis, and management

The prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus in polycystic ovary disease—a systematic review, meta-analysis, and exploration of associated risk factors

Preventing diabetes complications

SARS-CoV-2 infection and new-onset type 2 diabetes among pediatric patients, 2020-2022

Service evaluation suggests variation in clinical care provision in adults with congenital adrenal hyperplasia in the UK and Ireland

Sodium–glucose co-transporter-2 inhibitors for hospitalised patients with COVID-19

Working towards convergence of the clinical management of differences of sex development/intersex conditions and the human rights framework: a case study

Sources

Clinical Endocrinology (Oct-Nov); Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research and Reviews (Sep-Oct); Diabetology (Sep); Internal Medicine Journal (Aug); JAMA Network Open (Oct); Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, The (Oct-Nov); Primary Care Diabetes (Aug-Oct)

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