Idaho Diabetes and Endocrine Associates, P.A.

04/07/2024

Prescribing statins can be challenging as they may worsen diabetes, however, a thorough analysis reveals that their advantages significantly outweigh the potential drawbacks.

Statins cause a moderate dose-dependent increase in new diagnoses of diabetes that is consistent with a small upwards shift in glycaemia, with the majority of new diagnoses of diabetes occurring in people with baseline glycaemic markers that are close to the diagnostic threshold for diabetes. Import...

03/09/2024

Interesting article on antibiotic resistant bacteria and the diagnosis of same.

What the latest research and mounting clinical evidence indicates

03/02/2024

Understanding the advantages of statins

AbstractAims. Studies in primary healthcare (PHC) assessing the effect of primary prevention with statins on mortality and cardiovascular disease (CVD) are scar

02/17/2024

Found on the net: “It is interesting that people only drop opiates, benzodiazepines, and stimulants in the sink. Nobody has ever dropped an SSRI, statin, or antibiotic.”

01/06/2024

I keep warning patients about Medicare Advantage Plans.

As enrollment in Medicare Advantage plans grows, so do concerns about how well the insurance works, including from those who say they have become trapped in the private plans as their health declines.

06/12/2023

We get lots of questions about statin therapy in patients with hyperlipidemia. Here are some pix to help you.

02/18/2023

I’ve been seeing an uptick in autoimmune thyroid disease.

2 doses jab with Pfizer plus booster is causing thyroid problems, thyroid dysfunction, thyroid diseases (Morita and Mastuoka); thyroid antibodies increased post 2 doses & still elevated at 32 weeks

01/20/2023

This is used a lot for type 2 diabetes mellitus. Here’s a possible explanation for its method of action.

Metformin is the most prescribed drug for DM2, but its site and mechanism of action are still not well established. Here, we investigated the effec...

11/22/2022

Just had a pharmacy request 63 years of an antidepressant. What do they know about supply chain issues that I don’t??

11/18/2022

Good advice on glucose management. That’s why CGMS is so valuable, it’s as powerful as any medication if patients will use the results to modify their behavior.

peter attia shared a post on Instagram: "In this clip from episode # 173 – AMA # 26: Continuous glucose monitors, zone 2 training, and a framework for interventions, I share the five “tools” we use to manage blood glucose numbers in our patients: nutrition, exercise, stress management, sleep, ...

10/08/2022

Some interesting dietary advice.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165032722010643 #!

10/06/2022

This office has been using this regimen for several years and many of our patients have benefited from our prescribing (and advocating for them with insurance companies) these medications.

ADA and KDIGO, an international kidney disease group, together summarize their current guidance on how to manage patients with diabetes and chronic kidney disease.