Unintended weight loss: what’s the diagnosis?
Dr Sonya Jey explains the importance of considering and excluding sinister causes of unintentional weight loss and explores some clinical scenarios in which unintentional weight loss is a feature
Diabetes: adapt management to account for cardiovascular disease risk
Professor Peter J Grant and Professor Francesco Cosentino highlight the key recommendations from the 2019 ESC/EASD guideline on diabetes, pre-diabetes, and CVD
Key learning points: diabetes in older people with frailty
Professor Alan Sinclair explains how care should be personalised and targets adapted for older people with diabetes, including an assessment of frailty
Type 2 diabetes: the role of the practice pharmacist
Muhammad Siddiqur Rahman highlights the integral role of practice-based pharmacists in managing type 2 diabetes
Co-morbidities in type 2 diabetes
Dr Kevin Fernando describes eight common co-morbidities in patients with type 2 diabetes and how the co-existing conditions should be managed
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Guideline for the managed introduction of biosimilar basal insulin
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