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When the diabetes medicine metformin is taken by men in the three months prior to conception of sons, it may increase the risk for genital and urinary tract malformations three and a half times, a Danish study finds. Rita Kalyani, …

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Men who used the diabetes medicine metformin during the three months prior to conception of their son saw malformations of the genital and urinary tracts three and a half times more often in these children, a very large study from …

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In the year following a Covid-19 infection, some 40% of adults in one study developed new onset type 2 diabetes. Rita Kalyani, a diabetes expert at Johns Hopkins, says certain populations were much more at risk for this outcome. Kalyani: …

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People who’ve had Covid-19 have a 40% higher risk for developing type 2 diabetes in the year after their infection, a new study finds. Johns Hopkins diabetes expert Rita Kalyani says there may be a couple of reasons for this. …

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So-called long Covid may now include a new diagnosis of diabetes, a recent study shows. Diabetes expert Rita Kalyani at Johns Hopkins says this study follows participants over 12 months after their Covid infection. Kalyani: It was really in a …

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More expensive analog insulins are used by the majority of people with diabetes who use insulin, a study by Rita Kalyani, a diabetes expert at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues has shown. Is this practice based in any professional society recommendations? …

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When someone is taking insulin for diabetes, it’s important to monitor and manage its use, but during the pandemic, that didn’t happen. That’s according to research by Rita Kalyani, a diabetes expert at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues. Kalyani: We saw …

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