Goodfellow Gems #39

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Goodfellow Gems #39

Bruce Arroll

Wednesday 28 September 2016, 05:18 PM

Monogenic diabetes - common and needs oral not SC medication

A recent BBC Inside Health podcast interviewee noted that around 2% of patients with diabetes have a genetic form.1 The point to note is that these pe

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References

1. BBC Inside Health-personalised medicine. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0447pbv
2. NZSSD guidelines for monogenic diabetes. http://nzssd.org.nz/content/Health%20professionals/Monogenic_diabetes_card_with_for.pdf
3. Diabetes Diagnostics (University of Exeter) app on iTunes.

How to Treat

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Heart failure

Pharmacist prescribers Linda Bryant and Leanne Te Karu discuss positive polypharmacy for heart failure. Current evidence shows the intensive implementation of four medications offers the greatest benefit to most patients with heart failure, with significant reductions in cardiovascular mortality, heart failure hospitalisations and all-cause mortality

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 12:45 AM