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David Spero

Misdiagnosing Type 1 Diabetes

A recent Australian survey found that 33% of respondents with Type 1 diabetes were wrongly diagnosed with Type 2. Sixty-five percent of them had to go back to the doctor three or more times before they were correctly diagnosed. Why does this happen?

Diane Fennell

Men at Higher Risk for Type 2 Diabetes

More than 100 million people worldwide have Type 2 diabetes, and in many parts of the world, men have higher rates of the condition than women. A recent study from the University of Glasgow in Scotland suggests a possible explanation for this…

Eric Lagergren

Think About It

I’m here today to talk to you about talking. About your illness. And to say that I think you should think more. About your illness. Why is that? Because of last night…

David Spero

Should You Be Tested for MODY?

Diabetes is frequently misdiagnosed. For one example, people are often told they have Type 1 or Type 2, when they actually have MODY, sometimes called maturity-onset diabetes of the young or monogenic diabetes. Might you be one of them? And should you care?

Web Team

What We’re Reading: ADA’s “Living With Type 2 Diabetes”

While there are already many great support communities for those living with diabetes, the American Diabetes Association has launched a new program for those newly diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes…

Diane Fennell

A1C Accurate at Identifying Prediabetes

A routine blood test may be able to identify people with prediabetes as well as the fasting plasma glucose (FPG) test, the method currently used by some doctors for screening…

Eric Lagergren

It’s a Sparkling Water Kind of Day, Every Day

Diane Fennell

A1C Shows Predictive Advantage

Web Team

What We’re Reading: Free Blood Glucose Checks at Walgreens

Diane Fennell

A1C Recommended as Diagnostic Tool

Ingrid Strauch

Free Blood Testing

Eric Lagergren

What Time Can Do To Diagnosis Stories

Jan Chait

Searching My Brain for Something to Say

Eric Lagergren

Another Endocrinologist Visit

Jan Chait

Sometimes Things Really Do Suck

Eric Lagergren

For the Rest of My Life, This Month

Tara Dairman

HbA1c Test to be Used for Diagnosis

Tara Dairman

Knocking Out Prediabetes

Tara Dairman

"National Diabetes Goal" Set

Eric Lagergren

"It Turned Everything Upside Down"

Jan Chait

What Does That Have To Do With Diabetes?

Eric Lagergren

Breaking Bad News

Eric Lagergren

P2P Diabetes

Eric Lagergren

Ode to Diabetes, or Oh Diabetes

Eric Lagergren

Nothing Like Experience To Ease Diabetes Anxiety

Eric Lagergren

A Diabetes Neophyte’s Prologue (Part 3)

Eric Lagergren

A Diabetes Neophyte’s Prologue (Part 2)

Eric Lagergren

A Diabetes Neophyte’s Prologue (Part 1)

David Spero

Is it Type 2 or is it LADA?

Jan Chait

"Fat and Lazy," or Type 2 Diabetes—Which Came First?

Jan Chait

Pondering the Intensity of Preventing Type 2 diabetes

Jan Chait

Type 1 Envy

Jan Chait

What Does Your Doc Know About Diabetes?

Andy Stuckey

3-D Life with Diabetes

Andy Stuckey

Substitutions: A Way of Life

Jan Chait

Knowledge Amid Chaos

Andy Stuckey

Intro and a Little About Me

Jan Chait

Everything I Knew About Diabetes, I Learned From My Grandmother

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